Signed photobooks

Signed photobooks

Background information

Signed photo books are highly desirable for the photo book library of collectors, e.g. because they

  1. the mass-produced object 'photo book' stand out from the crowd and are only
  2. are only available in limited numbers
  3. bring a personal touch to the collection.

In addition, the collector can show that he is up to date. Since photo books by still unknown photographers are often produced with caution only in small editions and the publisher/photographer wants to ensure a high distribution by the signature, these volumes often become later sought-after collector's items.

Recent examples of now sought-after photo volumes by formerly lesser known photographers

'The Rage of Devotion' by Liza AMBROSSIO - 'Altered Ocean' by Mandy BARKER - 'Oasis Hotel' by Nicolo DEGIORGIS - 'The Island of the Color Blind' by Sanne DE WILDE - 'Two Rivers' by Carolyn DRAKE - 'Reading Raymond Carver' & 'Real Life Dramas' by Mary FREY - 'A' and 'ZZYZY' by Gregory HALPERN - 'Standing by the Wall. Berlin 1990' by Josef Wolfgang MAYER - 'Cette Montagne. C'est moi' by Witho WORMS ... to name just a few titles ...

OKABE, Momo - Dildo - SIGNED COPY, #12/55!
OKABE, Momo - Dildo - SIGNED COPY, #12/55!
In her rare, out-of-print volume 'Dildo', published in a very limited edition of only 55 copies, Japanese photographer Momo OKABE accompanies her friends in their transformation from woman to man. She developed her intimate, artistic photographs by hand.
3.600,00 € * Weight 2 kg
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Paul GRAHAM PhotoBook Library
Paul GRAHAM PhotoBook Library
Cafe Lehmitz Photobook Libraries shall enable collectors as well as institutions to acquire out-of-print titles at a price that can be paid. This library, the Paul GRAHAM Photobook Library, contains currently 19 photo volumes - mainly signed copies.
1.980,00 € *
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TILLMANS, Wolfgang - Neue Welt Artist Edition
TILLMANS, Wolfgang - Neue Welt Artist Edition
For this artist edition of 'Neue Welt', Wolfgang TILLMANS has selected 72 images and re-contextualized them on large, 24 folded printed sheets. Each is a separate object with a front, center fold and back. And some new photos are not included in the book.
1.750,00 € *
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Dirk-ALVERMANN-Photobook-Libray
Dirk-ALVERMANN-Photobook-Libray
The 'Dirk-ALVERMANN-Photobook-Library' currently contains one copy each of nine publications, which are already out of print at their publishers. Some of the books are SIGNED, like 'Keine Experimente' (1961), 'Zwischen den Zeiten' (2006) & 'dacapo' (2008)
1.200,00 € * Weight 8 kg
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WOLF, Michael - Hong Kong Back Alleys - THE COMPLETE SET
WOLF, Michael - Hong Kong Back Alleys - THE COMPLETE SET
Cloth bound (no dust jackets, as issued)
1.198,00 € *
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SUDA, Issei - Early Works. 1970-1975
SUDA, Issei - Early Works. 1970-1975
The out-of-print volume 'Early Works' by Issei SUDA contains black-and-white photographs that were published in several magazines between 1970 and 1975, prior to the 'Fushikaden' series - this photo collection is like a prologue to his personal history.
998,00 € * Weight 1.1 kg
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WORMS, Witho - Cette Montagne. C'est moi
WORMS, Witho - Cette Montagne. C'est moi
'Cette Montagne. C'est moi' is a 'real Revier 'book about a coal mining area that stretches from France to Belgium and Germany to Poland. Dutch photographer Witho WORMS documented the heaps, photobook designer Hans GREMMEN congenially staged the pictures.
from 998,00 € Weight 0.8 kg
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SOTH, Alec - Niagara - AS SIGNED COLLECTOR'S EDITION WITH PRINT!
SOTH, Alec - Niagara - AS SIGNED COLLECTOR'S EDITION WITH PRINT!
The photo volume 'Niagara' by Alec SOTH is less about the natural wonder than the human desires associated with this place. They were taken with a large-format 8x10 camera over the course of two years on both the American and Canadian sides of the Falls.
948,00 € * Weight 1.2 kg
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'NZ Library #3'
'NZ Library #3'
with photo books by Mark STEINMETZ, Anthony HERNANDEZ, Bevan DAVIES, Katy GRANNAN, Sage SOHIER & John HUMBLE, Sage SOHIER, Mark STEINMETZ
900,00 € *
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'NZ Library #4'
'NZ Library #4'
This Nazraeli 'NZ Library Set #4' consists of six signed hardcover photo volumes by Steve BANKS / Katy GRANNAN / Abelardo MORELL / Catherine OPIE / Mark STEINMETZ / Jack TEEMER, collected in a slipcase. All texts are in English, limited to 350 copies!
900,00 € *
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'NZ Library #2'
'NZ Library #2'
The NZ-Library Set #2 consists of six signed hardcover photo volumes from Robbert FLICK / Kazuo KITAI / Philip MELNICK / John SCHOTT / Toshio SHIBATA / Mark STEINMETZ. In an extra made slipcase, richly illustrated, texts in English, Ltd. to 350 copies!
900,00 € *
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'NZ Library #1'
'NZ Library #1'
This is the beginning set of the Nazraeli 'NZ Library' series, collected in a slipcase. Included are six signed photo volumes by Bevan DAVIES / John DIVOLA / Steve KAHN / Idris KHAN / Daidō MORIYAMA / John SCHOTT. Texts in English, limited to 350 copies!
900,00 € *
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ANDERSON, Christopher - Approximate Joy
ANDERSON, Christopher - Approximate Joy
The photographic volume 'Approximate Joy' by Christopher ANDERSON offered here is from the 1st edition and is signed by the Magnum photographer. Collector's edition (1 of 30) with a signed C-print on metallic paper. Book with print and yellow slipcase.
850,00 € * Weight 1.1 kg
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ALVERMANN, Dirk - Keine Experimente
ALVERMANN, Dirk - Keine Experimente
SIGNED COPY. In his 2nd photo volume 'Keine Experimente', Dirk ALVERMANN takes a critical and mocking stance on the period of the economic miracle as well as the Nazi past. The b/w photographs were taken between 1956 and 1961 in Berlin and the Rhineland.
548,00 € * Weight 0.2 kg
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ZIELONY, Tobias - Behind the Block - AS SIGNED COPY!
ZIELONY, Tobias - Behind the Block - AS SIGNED COPY!
For his out-of-print book 'Behind the Block', Tobias ZIELONY visited the peripheries of modern cities such as Halle, Marseille & Bristol to explore the youth culture there in 'subcultural melting pots' and special zones of urban civilization at eye level.
498,00 € * Weight 0.5 kg
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SIMON, Taryn - An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar - SIGNED COPY (HATJE) IN ORIGINAL SHRINK WRAP!
SIMON, Taryn - An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar - SIGNED COPY (HATJE) IN ORIGINAL SHRINK WRAP!
'An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar' by Taryn SIMON provides amazing insights into remote corners of the USA. With her pictures, she opens up unknown, even uncanny territories of a society whose self-image is based on being open & transparent.
498,00 € * Weight 1.7 kg
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EL-TANTAWY, Laura - In the Shadow of the Pyramids - AS SIGNED COPY!
EL-TANTAWY, Laura - In the Shadow of the Pyramids - AS SIGNED COPY!
The out-of-print volume 'In the Shadow of the Pyramids' by Magnum photographer Laura EL-TANTAWY appears to be a general account of the hopes and setbacks associated with the Egyptian revolution.But through the texts it gains considerable personal depth.
448,00 € * Weight 1.2 kg
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WOLF, Michael - Hong Kong Flora
WOLF, Michael - Hong Kong Flora
In 'Hong Kong Flora', Michael WOLF turns his attention to plants and flowers in the urban jungle of the Asian metropolis. Each leaf, each branch, each flower a visible sign of the power of nature and people´s single-mindedness, to customize their habitat.
398,00 €
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WOLF, Michael - Hong Kong Trilogy
WOLF, Michael - Hong Kong Trilogy
Cloth bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 15,5 x 21 x 2 cm., 152 pp., color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 500 copies
398,00 €
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SCHUTMAAT, Bryan - Grays the Mountain Sends - SIGNED 2ND PRINT RUN!
SCHUTMAAT, Bryan - Grays the Mountain Sends - SIGNED 2ND PRINT RUN!
In his after sought and long-out-of-print volume 'Grays the Mountain Sends'Bryan SCHUTMAAT combines portraits, landscapes, and still lifes to explore the lives of working people residing in small mountain towns and mining communities in the American West.
398,00 € * Weight 0.9 kg
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HIDO, Todd - Bright Black World - AS SIGNED COPY!
HIDO, Todd - Bright Black World - AS SIGNED COPY!
The images included in the photovolume 'Bright Black World' by Todd HIDO were taken in Northern Europe and Japan. Previously focused on North America, this is the first significant foray into photography outside of his home country for the photographer.
398,00 € * Weight 1.7 kg
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DELBROUCK, Vincent - As Dust Alights
DELBROUCK, Vincent - As Dust Alights
The out-of-print photo book 'As Dust Alights' by Vincent DELBROUCK represents part #1 of The Himalayan Project. He created this artist book out of various installations, subjectively addressing the city of Kathmandu as well as the nature of the Himalayas.
398,00 € Weight 0.7 kg
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KNOTH, Robert & Antoinette de JONG - Poppy. Trails of Afghan Heroin
KNOTH, Robert & Antoinette de JONG - Poppy. Trails of Afghan Heroin
'Poppy. Trails of Afghan Heroin 'by Dutch Robert KNOTH and Antoinette de JONG, traces the heroin journey, which leads from Afghanistan via Central Asia, Russia and the Balkans to East Africa, Dubai and Western Europe and gets lost in the streets of London
398,00 €
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CLEMENT, Krass - Novemberrejse
CLEMENT, Krass - Novemberrejse
Out-of-print photo volume 'Novemberrejse' by Krass CLEMENT consists of almost 80 b/w photographs showing life in a small Danish town. Every now and then the Danish photographer chooses unexpected angles and portrays some people from the shortest distance.
398,00 € Weight 0.8 kg
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DELBROUCK, Vincent - Some windy trees
DELBROUCK, Vincent - Some windy trees
Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued BUT in a bag), 24 x 32 x 1 cm. (9,4x12,6"), 40 pp., 10 color ills., English. +PRINT (approx. 22 x 28 cm.) Ltd. to 50 numbered copies
398,00 € *
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JOHANSSON, Gerry - Tokyo - AS SIGNED & NUMBERED COPY!
JOHANSSON, Gerry - Tokyo - AS SIGNED & NUMBERED COPY!
Out-of-print book 'Tokyo' by Gerry JOHANSSON is a journey through a city at once futuristic and obsolete. Photography is used to index the city, finding form and pragmatic order through accumulation and sequence, revealing the city's hidden, modular logic
398,00 € * Weight 1.2 kg
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STEINMETZ, Mark - Angel City West (Vol.2)
STEINMETZ, Mark - Angel City West (Vol.2)
Slipcased HC with dust jacket, 30 x 38 x 2 cm. (12 x 15 in.), 64 pp., 51 duotone b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 350 copies
380,00 € *
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MORIYAMA, Daido - Journey for Something
MORIYAMA, Daido - Journey for Something
HC with dust jacket, 27 x 34,5 x 2,5 cm. (8 x 13,5 x 1 inch.), 240 pp., 320 duotone b/w ills., text language: English
378,00 €
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CARTAGENA, Alejandro - Carpoolers - 1ST PRINT RUN, AS SIGNED COPY!
CARTAGENA, Alejandro - Carpoolers - 1ST PRINT RUN, AS SIGNED COPY!
Self-published book 'Carpoolers' by Alejandro CARTAGENA draws attention to the sociological and economic aspects of the Mexican-American economy. We look from above directly onto the loading area of Mexican pickups that transport very different 'loads'.
378,00 € Weight 0.4 kg
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MARTí SÁEZ, Matilde - Territorio Boom
MARTí SÁEZ, Matilde - Territorio Boom
Ringbinded carton, 19 x 24 cm., 68 pp., approx. 24 color ills., Ltd. to 100 copies, bilingual text: Spanish / English
358,00 € *
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PATTERSON, Christian - Redheaded Peckerwood
PATTERSON, Christian - Redheaded Peckerwood
Out-of-print photo volume 'Redheaded Peckerwood' by American photographer Christian PATTERSON, which unerringly walks the fine line between fiction and nonfiction, is a disturbingly beautiful narrative about unfathomable violence and its place on the land
from 350,00 €
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GRAHAM, Paul - A Shimmer of Possibility
GRAHAM, Paul - A Shimmer of Possibility
Signed new edition. Paul GRAHAM's photo volume set 'A Shimmer of Possibility' is considered one of the defining photo books of the 21st century and was awarded the Paris Photo-Aperture Prize for the most important photo book of the last 15 years.
from 350,00 €
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D'AGATA, Antoine - Anticorps
D'AGATA, Antoine - Anticorps
1st print run, HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 19,5 x 26 x 4 cm., 560 pp., color & b/w ills., text language: french - TEXT ONLY IN FRENCH !
330,00 € Weight 2.2 kg
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MORIYAMA, Daido - A Hunter
MORIYAMA, Daido - A Hunter
This new edition of 'A Hunter' by Daido MORIYAMA features the photo book with a carefully researched and designed booklet including readable essays as well as an invaluable commentary in English regarding the book as a whole and each individual photograph
298,00 € Weight 1.1 kg
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CLEMENT, Krass - Bag Saga Blok
CLEMENT, Krass - Bag Saga Blok
Long out-of-print photo volume 'Bag Saga Blok' by Danish Krass CLEMENT, is a neighborhood portrait spanning over five decades around an old movie theater in Copenhagen's Vesterbro neighborhood - presented with an impressive range of photographic styles.
from 298,00 € Weight 1.9 kg
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HIDO, Todd - House Hunting - SLIPCASED SIGNED REISSUE (2019)!
HIDO, Todd - House Hunting - SLIPCASED SIGNED REISSUE (2019)!
This new printed edition of Todd HIDO's legendary and coveted first monograph has been reissued to celebrate the upcoming 20th anniversary of this important photo book - undoubtedly one of the most influential and most cited photo monographs of our time.
298,00 € * Weight 2.2 kg
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KRASNOSHCHOK, Vladyslav - Negatives are stored
KRASNOSHCHOK, Vladyslav - Negatives are stored
'Negatives are Stored' by Vladyslav KRASNOSHCHOK is an object of a wooden box with 53 colored reproductions of cabinet portraits and business cards. The originals are from Kharkov, initially the photographer only wanted to save them from their destruction
298,00 € *
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MORIYAMA, Daido - Another Country in New York
MORIYAMA, Daido - Another Country in New York
Facsimile. pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), ca. 20 x 25 x 1 cm., 32 pp., b/w ills., Ltd. to 250 copies with 2 different silk-screened covers (= 500 copies in total!)
298,00 € Weight 0.3 kg
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SUDA, Issei - Tokyokei
SUDA, Issei - Tokyokei
'Tokyokei' documents both: Issei SUDA's very personal view of his hometown and an important Japanes period. This photo book is perhaps the most personal title of the Japanese master. It contains 106 previously unpublished b/w photos from the 1970s and 80s
298,00 € * Weight 1.7 kg
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MORIYAMA, Daido - Pantomime
MORIYAMA, Daido - Pantomime
'Pantomime' by Daido MORIYAMA features the more or less complete series of his pictures of fetuses, stored in formalin, photographed at a maternity hospital in Kanagawa. This was his first own project after three years’ work as an assistant to Eikoh HOSOE
298,00 € * Weight 0.2 kg
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STEINMETZ, Mark - Angel City West (Vol.1)
STEINMETZ, Mark - Angel City West (Vol.1)
Slipcased HC, 30,5 x 38 cm., 64 pp., 58 dutone b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 350 numbered copies
298,00 € *
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YOKOTA, Daisuke - Matter / Burn Out
YOKOTA, Daisuke - Matter / Burn Out
The out-of-print volume 'Matter / Burn Out' by Daisuke YOKOTA is a documentation of the exhibition of the same name in Xiamen, which was burned after its completion. This was documented, with the data processed, manipulated and revived to create this book
298,00 € * Weight 1.1 kg
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DOYLE, Eamonn - ON (red) - SIGNED COPY!
DOYLE, Eamonn - ON (red) - SIGNED COPY!
The black and white images in the out-of-print photographic volume 'ON' by Irish photographer Eamonn DOYLE consist of a collection of street portraits from Dublin city center. The people are mostly photographed from the front and from a lower angle.
298,00 € Weight 1.1 kg
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EPSTEIN, Mitch - New York Arbor
EPSTEIN, Mitch - New York Arbor
The photographs in out-of-print, large-formated 'New York Arbor' by Mitch EPSTEIN document the importance of trees to urban life in NYC, as well as their complex relationship with the residents. The superb printing makes viewing a breathtaking experience.
from 298,00 € Weight 1.6 kg
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GOLDBERG, Jim - Raised by Wolves Bootleg
GOLDBERG, Jim - Raised by Wolves Bootleg
Bootleg ed. of 'Raised by Wolves' by Jim GOLDBERG. It contains harrowing stories about teenage runaways living on the streets of San Francisco and LA. It combines photographs, documents as well as handwritten, passages about their lives and feelings.
298,00 € Weight 1.1 kg
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Beyond Caring', A1' & 'Troubled Land'-re-issues as a Set
Beyond Caring', A1' & 'Troubled Land'-re-issues as a Set
In his book trilogy consisting of 'A1. The Great North Road', 'Beyond Caring' as well as 'Troubled Land' - Paul GRAHAM documents life in the United Kingdom during the 1980s. This series established and him as an important voice in contemporary photography
298,00 € *
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HUGO, Pieter - There's a Place in Hell for Me and My Friends
HUGO, Pieter - There's a Place in Hell for Me and My Friends
In this out-of-print photo volume 'There's a Place in Hell for Me and My Friends' Pieter HUGO devotes himself to those components that are 'active' under the surface and consist of a much broader spectrum. What seems to divide us at the actually unites us
298,00 € Weight 1.1 kg
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KAWADA, Kikuji - Chizu / The Map. Maquette
KAWADA, Kikuji - Chizu / The Map. Maquette
This edition of 'Chizu / The Map' by Kikuji KAWADA is an exquisite facsimile of the two-volume maquette, which also includes a booklet of texts and an interview with the Japanese artist revealing the evolution of one of the best photobooks of all time.
298,00 € * Weight 2.2 kg
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JOHANSSON, Gerry - Deutschland - AS SIGNED COPY!
JOHANSSON, Gerry - Deutschland - AS SIGNED COPY!
In his out-of-print photo book 'Deutschland', Gerry JOHANSSON explains German history through its landscape, industrial scenes and buildings, residential streets and store fronts. Here ends the series of books for which he spent eighteen years traveling.
298,00 € * Weight 1.2 kg
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SCHMIDT, Michael - Food
SCHMIDT, Michael - Food
SIGNED COPY! The out-of-print photo book 'Lebensmittel' (Food) by Michael SCHMIDT documents the industrialization in food production. The volume consisting of B/W & color photographs was the last publication on which he still worked until its completion.
298,00 € * Weight 2.7 kg
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