more 2nd Hand photo books

Linen bound HC with dust jacket, 29 x 33 x 3 cm., 344 pp., b/w ills., trilingual text: English / German / French

In out-of-print photo book 'Die Deutschen', René BURRI mainly depicts everyday life in Germany, where the bullet holes from the war can still be seen on the wall of the building. Hepursued his project for many decades. In 1986 and 1999, it was republished

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 27 x 22 x 2 cm., 136 pp., 76 b/w ills., bilingual texts: German / English

Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 22,5 x 28,5 x 2,5 cm., 142 S., ganz- u. doppels. Farb- und S/W-Abb., 1.300 gr., deutsch-sprachiger Text - TEXT ONLY IN GERMAN!

The out-of-print volume 'Buzzing at the Sill' by Peter van AGTMAEL is a collection of reflections on war, militarism, identity, family and landscape, among other things. It is both an examination of the limits of photography and a tribute to its power.

The out-of-print 'Zeitblende' was published on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the famous photo agency Magnum. The picture & text book provides an overview of the impressive field of reportage photography that is commensurate with its significance

In his photographic volume 'Lago', US-American photographer Ron JUDE returns to his own early childhood. He attempts to reconcile the imponderables of memory with our need to give things a narrative meaning.

The out-of-print book 'Speaking of scars' by Teresa ENG deals with trauma and memory, using photography to process an experience that could not be processed. It is an expression of the unspeakable, transforming unimaginable events into a visible language.

Catalog brochure 'Treppen im (stairs at) Künstlerhaus Bethanien' by Marianne POHL was published on the occasion of the exhibition there in 1981. It contains a total of 27 b/w photographs on, a text by Inken Nowald as well as a biographical artist's note.

In 'Francesco Petrarca. Die Besteigung des Mont Ventoux', eight color images by Constantin BEYER illustrate the text in which Petrarch as one of the first who did the ascent of the highest and most impressive mountain in Provence, described it in a letter

The out-of-print volume 'Karl Blossfeldt Photographs 1865-1932' by photo historian Rolf Sachsse contains a trilingual introduction (German, French & English) and more than fifty-five black-and-white illustrations of plant photographs from the late 1920s.

Out-of-print photographic volume 'Liebes Leben' (Dear Life) by Roswitha HECKE consists of 94 images documenting the everyday life of street prostitute Irene. The b/w photographs were taken partly in Germany and partly in Italy (Rome?) in the mid-1970s.

Volume No.6 of the book series 'Grosse Photographern unserer Zeit' (Great Photographers of Our Time) presents the work of Swiss Magnum photographer Werner BISCHOF (1916-1954) in over 80 b/w images - works in the area of tension between art and reportage.

The out-of-print volume on August SANDER shows around 40 b/w photographs that are exemplary for the portrait work created between 1921 and 1930 - around the time of the Weimar Republic: people from Cologne, the Westerwald, the Eifel, Hamburg and Berlin.

DAMAGED BERTELSMANN EDITION 1954

The out-of-print landscape format photographic volume 'Brazil' by Italian Albano GUATTI with a text translated into German by Jorge Amado contains 122 full-page color illustrations, original linen with original cover.

HC with dust jacket, 22 x 25 x 2 cm., 192 pp., mainly full-paged b/w ills., text language: English

The color images made by Raissa VENABLES show soul spaces that tell of the deeds, dreams and nightmares of their inhabitants. On the computer, she weaves detailed shots of living rooms, hallways, staircases, elevators, or tents into mysterious tableaus.

Vol.2 of late 1970s book series 'Photo-Galerie. Die Bibliothek berühmter Photographern' (The Library of Famous Photographers) is dedicated to the work of Hungarian photographer André KERTÉSZ.

For his out-of-print volume 'Ladakh', Raphael GAILLARDE documented the magnificent mountains and the everyday life of the residents. Until then, the Tibetan tradition had remained largely untouched in the plateaux between the Himalayas and the Karakorum.

Vol.1 of late 1970s book series 'Photo-Galerie. Die Bibliothek berühmter Photographern' (The Library of Famous Photographers) is dedicated to the work of Jacques-Henri LARTIGUE, whose early sports photographs represent the fascination of an era for speed.

Out-of-print volume 'NY JS DB 62' features photos of David BAILEY in wintry New York in 1962. By leaving the confines of the studio behind and taking photos on the street, he set new standards and brought the UK back to the forefront of popular culture.

'Post script' by Laura EL-TANTAWY, designed by Sybren KUIPER in accordeon format, contains previously unpublished images & written reflections in which she takes the reader behind the images and into the thoughts and emotions that led to their creation.

The volume 'A Humanist Gaze' by Joseph RODRGUEZ intimately documents the life of people who live at the fringes of society: families who live on the wrong side of the law, prostitutes in Mexico, jail inmates in Zambia and pentecostal pilgrims in Romania.

The out-of-print volume 'Outland' by Roger BALLEN is the culmination of almost twenty years of work and is one of the most extraordinary photographic titles. From the late 1990s to 2000, he portrayed white people on the fringes of South African society.

In his photo volume 'LA', Hans-Christian SCHINK generates - based on the precise investigation of the no man's land of Los Angeles - a contrast of nocturnal panoramic shots with extreme cropped enlargements that only hint at traces of urban action spaces.

Out-of-print 'Leipzig. Photographs 1956-1959' by Günter BLUTKE shows the saxonian city in the mid-fifties, taking us back to that time and the people living this time of new beginnings, 10 years after the war and before Germany was divided in two states.

The out-of-print photo book 'Die Poesie der Form' (The Poetry of Form) contains around 75 b/w images by Imogen CUNNINGHAM, neither strictly chronologically nor thematically organized: Bodies, plants, still lifes and portraits, including with August SANDER

Out of print since a long time, this photo volume, 'Death Valley' by French photographer Jeanloup SIEFF, contains sixty black-and-white photographs, mainly landscapes of California's Death Valley.

'Das Positiv' shows the concept of visualization, in which photographers imagine the final image in all its tonal gradation even before taking the picture. Ansel ADAMS points out all the possibilities that make the work on the positive a creative process.

The very limited edition volume 'Everyday Abstracts' by Luke Drozd is a silkscreened publication, part of the 'Accumulation Primitive' series , featuring abstract works created from collected textures. Here volume 69 of 70.

The German-language photo volume 'Bericht aus China. 1957-1980' by Magnum photographer Marc RIBOUD - simultaneously published as 'Visions of China' - contains around 100 documentary black-and-white photographs from the years 1957, 1965, 1971 and 1979.

Paperback (no dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 28 x 1,5 cm., 200 pp., 179 b/w ills., text language: English. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1985.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 30 x 21 x 1,5 cm., 101 pp., b/w ills., 990 gr., German text only

In her volume 'Ramya', Dutch photographer Petra STAVAST has brought enormous care and devotion to documenting the life of her former landlady, Ramya. When the photographer moved into Ramya's home in 2001, the camera became their means of communication.

The 'Miss Cox' project by Mariken WESSELS is a artistic translation of her fascination with an anonymous woman who posed for the camera of Eadweard MUYBRIDGE in 1885. She started making large clay sculptures, photographing obese models swimming underwater

The travel diary 'See Saw' by Antonia HENSCHEL takes us to 10 places worldwide. From London to Venice and Tokyo. Connecticut, is followed by Taipei & Shanghai and Marrakech by Seoul. A foggy stretch of forest on the Moselle and a visit to Odawara, Tokyo.

The photo book 'Nausea' by Ron JUDE follows the assumption that philosophical inquiry can be filtered through photographs. The monotonous spaces & objects captured visually serve as a task for exploring the connection between narratives and consciousness.

The out-of-print catalog 'Günther Förg: Painting, Sculpture, Installation' was published in 1989 on the occasion of the exhibitions at Newport Harbor, San Francisco, and Milwaukee. Essays by Bonnie Clearwater. Paperback with 157 color illustrated pages.

Out-of-print book 'A fetish for beauty. Sein Gesamtwerk' is not focused solely on the fashion photography by Erwin BLUMENFELD. A detailed essay and numerous images published reveal the many facets of his oeuvre as well as the stages of his eventful life.

SC (no dust jacket, as issued), 20,5 x 20,5 x 2 cm., 180 pp., b/w ills., bilingual etxt: German / English

The out-of-print double volume 'Talents 06' contains the photo series 'The Cast' by Tobias ZIELONY as well as the text contribution 'I love America. On the adaptation of reality in the photographs of Tobias Zielony' by Jutta von Zitzewitz.

Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 15,5 x 21 x 2 cm., 120 Seiten, S/W-Aufnahmen, deutsch-sprachier Text - TEXT ONLY IN GERMAN, Ltd. to 500 copies

In 'Mädchen' Diana SCHERER portrays both young girls & dresses for girls in an endearing but troubling reflection on innocence and the fostering of gender roles. Doll-like dresses accentuate the contrast between stylised appearances & child’s disposition.

The out-of-print volume 'Deutsche Bilder: Fotografien 1965-1980' by Dietmar GOTTSCHALL documents the life in Germany covering a broad photographic spectrum, from everyday events on the streets of Germany to the world of the successful business journalist.

The out-of-print book 'Pistils' by Robert MAPPLETHORPE reproduces 120 virtuoso flower pictures that show the full range of his virtuosity: Polaroids, sophisticated still lifes in black and white and color as well as extremely rare, tinted intaglio prints.

Out-of-print photo book 'Wegweiser zum Glück' (Roadmap to Happiness) by Wilhelm SCHÜRMANN deals with everyday life in a Dortmund street). The serial black-and-white photographs in the book lie somewhere between factual stocktaking and personal enthusiasm.

In his photographic book 'Japan. Fleeting Encounters', German photographer Stefan BONESS explores the historical and cultural dimensions of Japan, creating a melancholic portrait of a country that is both modern and deeply rooted in ancient traditions.

Broschierte Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 18 x 26 x 1 cm., 121 S., 111 S/W-Aufnahmen, deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

In her out-of-print book 'Medebach. Photographs 2009-2011', Petra WITTMAR captures the apparent dreariness of her home community: the everyday face of a small rural town in the German provinces with a few stores as well as absurdly strange building forms.

In her book 'So To Speak', Steffi KLENZ questions the role of representation and communication in photography, focusing on the dichotomy of image and text. The two systems of representation - the visual and the verbal - intersect and undermine each other.

Small ed., gebundene Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 19 x 17,5 x 1,5 cm., etwa. 120 unpaginierte S., 72 S/W & Farb-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 27 x 27 x 1,5 cm., 120 pp., appendix, short overview about history, highly b/w illustrated, 930 gr., German / English

The self-published photo book 'Oceanus. A Tale of the Sea' by Elisabeth TONNARD attempts to evoke the feeling of a confused journey. Awkwardly placed words and the sea consist of two photographs taken from a family album that has been lost in an archive.

Even though Walter CARONE was a famous celebrity photographer who photographed the early Cannes Film Festival extensively, most of the black and white images in Serge Bramly's out-of-print photo book 'Photographe' show the rough and tumble of street life.

The out-of-print photo volume 'Helmut Newton's Illustrated No.1 - No.4. Complete Edition' combines all between 1984 and 1995 of the self-published magazines by Helmut NEWTON in one volume. 134 of his best photographs - in black-and-white and in color.

Out-of-print book 'Mann für Mann' by Roswitha HECKE contains over 40 images from all over the world. Around half of the b/w images were taken in New York City, the rest in Barcelona, Naples, Cairo, London a.o. They all show men, individually or in groups.

The images in out-of-print 'Ansichten von Pagan, Burma' by Ursula SCHULZ-DORNBURG document a temple system in Burma (Myanmar) in the late 1970s. The book contains landscape photographs as well as pictures of stone sculptures from inside the Ananda Temple.

The 'The Arsenic Eaters' by Simon BRUGNER explores the historical belief that eating arsenic was healthy. It consists of contemporary photographs as well as archival material and traces the poison eaters to make a connection between history and present.

In her photographic volume 'Inventur' Mira BERGMÜLLER gives insight into rooms of the collegiate church St. Margarethen, describing the church from its everyday use and thus sharpens the view for art and architecture as witnesses of a history of faith.

The images in the self-published volume 'da denk ich, dass ich fliegen kann' by Conny HÖFLICH give insight into the parallel world of children and the loss of immediate access. The pictures also tell of this in their ambivalence of closeness and distance.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 30,5 x 1,5 cm., 148 pp., color & b/w ills., bilingual texts: German / English

'Wake' by Adam JEPPESEN was created in the remote backwoods of Finland and reflects the emotional, aesthetic clarity of solitude in an intuitive, dream-like sequence - images in the borderland between darkness & twilight, obscuring as much as they reveal.

This out-of-print new edition of the 1965 monograph 'The Flame of Recognition' about American photographer Edward WESTON contains a cross-section of his work, with portraits and nature photographs as well as texts from his diaries and letters.

'Die Kennedys. Portrait of a Familie' von Richard AVEDON führt uns zurück in den Januar 1961. Er enthält für die Modemagazine Look und Harper's Bazaar gemachte Fotos der Familie John F. Kennedys, der kurz zuvor zum Präsidenten der USA gewählt worden war.

The photographs by Sibylle BERGEMANN illustrate the volume 'Himmelhölle Manhattan' by Irene Runge, which was published in the former GDR in the late 1980s. Classic street photography that captures the events of the day - with a dash of social criticism.

The out-of-print catalog volume 'Soviet Photography of the 1920s and 1930s' shows the great creative wealth: photographers of Pictoialism and Soviet avant-garde developed in parallel with each other until Stalinist ideology gave a direction.

Linen bound HC with dust jacket, 32 x 27,5 x 2 cm., 120 pp., 87 color ills. + 3 panorama views, English

SC (no dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 28 x 1,5 cm., 116 pp., approx. 100 b/w ills., German text only