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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