more 2nd Hand photo books

'Die Amerikaner' is the German edition of this work that looked at the Americans from a new perspective and which revolutionized the aesthetics of the photo book. It was first published in 2008, on the occasion of the anniversary of the French original.

US photographer Edward WESTON kept a diary in which he recorded his struggle to understand himself, society and his art. 'The Daybooks of Edward Weston' were edited by Nancy Newhall in two volumes: one for his time in Mexico and one for Californian time.

The Anti-War book 'Kriegsfibel' (War primer) by Bertolt Brecht and Ruth Berlau processes press photos from the Second World War. Images of machines and gruesome scenes were given new captions, socialist-realist epigrams to give the scenes a primal meaning

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.

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

Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 16,5 x 24 x 1,5 cm., 200 S., 40 S/W-Aufnahmen (+9 grün eingefäbte Seiten) sowie 25 Farbaufnahmen, deutsch-sprachuger Text - HERE GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

The out-of-print and hard-to-find volume 'In Search of Dignity and Justice. The untold story of Conservancy Workers in Mumbai' by Sudharak OLWE shows the fate of workers in Bombay. It contains fourty-six mostly full-paged b/w images and six pages of text.

Out-of-print 'A World in Ruins. Vienna 1945-1948' by Ernst HAAS tells history as a psychic collage. The images of the deep depression in the rubble of bombed-out history contrast with the optimistic awakening. A little-documented part of Austria's history

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.

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.

Open spined pb. (wrap around dust jacket), 21 x 26 cm., 184 pp., 49 color & 22 b/w ills., text language: English

Softcover (no dust jacket, as issued), approx. 22 x 22 x 0,5 cm., 18 pp., 6 b/w ills., 100 gr., English, details in German/English

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

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

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

In this out-of-print photo volume, 'Nude', American photographer Ralph GIBSON shows a collection of nudes, his best works. His mysterious, dreamlike images pay homage to such greats as MAN RAY and Edward WESTON, while continually pursuing new frontiers.

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.

Out-of-print 'Werner Bischof. Pictures' presents the work, which is in the area of tension between art and reportage and was created in a short time because of the early death of the photographer. It also contains the color photographs he took in the USA.

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