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 ...


Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 15 x 21,5 x 2 cm., 224 pp., richly illustrated, text language: English
38,00 €
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 € *
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 € *
with photo books by Mark STEINMETZ, Anthony HERNANDEZ, Bevan DAVIES, Katy GRANNAN, Sage SOHIER & John HUMBLE, Sage SOHIER, Mark STEINMETZ
900,00 € *
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 € *
'The Chinese Photobook. From the 1900s to the Present' covers titles from China, titles published in Europe about China as well as the propaganda production after the Chinese Revolution and self-published artist volumes from the turn of the millennium.
from 39,95 €
'Transgalactic. Photography. Gender. Transition' highlights works by trans and/or queer artists and their authentic testimonies that break gender stereotypes. Texts and images explore the diversity of perspectives on photography, gender and transition.
from 32,00 € Weight 0.8 kg
The werewolf, about which the nifty photo book 'Lobismuller' by Laia ABRIL is about, was a woman who lived in the 19th century. lived in Spain. The story of Spain's most enigmatic and bloodthirsty serial killer is reconstructed from a female perspective.
from 58,00 €
The book 'The Rest is History' is a commentary on the British Brexit decision in 2020. Alejandro ACÍN questions the construction of history through theatrically staged photos taken in London during the last 24 hours of British-European political relations
29,80 € Weight 0.3 kg
This self-published photo volume 'I can't get through the chaos' by Polish photographer Michal ADAMSKI tells the story of the year he said goodbye to his parents forever. The images, mostly in black & white, show real, tangible death, not his imagination.
18,00 € * Weight 0.2 kg
Open bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued),
38,00 € *
This out-of-print photo volume, 'Pale Blue' by the photographer duo ALBARRÁN CABRERA, is a symbolic journey to the origins of planet earth. Its design reflects different layers of the earth and times to remind us that everything is related to everything.
0,00 € Weight 0.9 kg
The images of ALBARRÁN CABRERA in 'Remembering the Future' speak to us of memory and experience. At first glance, their very clarity is moving. After a time, rather than real scenes, they begin to seem the settings for dreams about to vanish into the mist
58,00 € * Weight 0.7 kg
Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 19,5 x 30 x 1 cm., 52 pp., b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 150 numbered copies
24,00 € *
Linen bound pb., 21 x 30 x 1,5 cm., 144 pp., color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 750 copies
35,00 € *
For her photo book 'Betweenness', Israeli photographer Lili ALMOG was inspired by the veiling practices of an extremist Jewish sect. In a novel representation of the veil, she raises questions about freedom and faith and how these truths can coexist today
from 48,00 €
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
SIGNED COPY. Out of print from the publisher, the biographical volume 'Zwischen den Zeiten. Rhapsody in Schwarzweiß' with over 200 b/w photographs from the 1950s to the 1980s represents the personal balance of the work of the photographer Dirk ALVERMANN.
178,00 € * Weight 0.6 kg
The book 'The Rage of Devotion / La ira de la devoción' by Liza AMBROSSIO shows the process of a woman facing the destruction of a world that does not allow her to grow and create, and the beginning of a reconstruction with the fragments of another order.
98,00 € *
The photo volume 'Country.Rock' by Morten ANDERSEN is about the escape from current political and social failures as well as myths and dreams. It features nature and documentary photos against the backdrop of a sci-fi-inspired, post-apocalyptic narrative.
48,00 € Weight 1.1 kg
This out-of-print photo volume, 'Jetlag and Alcohol' by Morten ANDERSEN, is both a visual diary and a profound portrait of the city of New York. The b/w photographs in it take you into a multifaceted cityscape.
0,00 € * Weight 0.9 kg
For this really small black and white photo volume, 'Now I want to be your dog', the photographer Morten ANDERSEN exhumed his portraits of his French friend Antoine D'AGATA during their studies together at the ICP in New York in the early 1990s.
0,00 € Weight 0.1 kg
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
HC with dust jacket, 26 x 33 x 2 cm., 88 pp. (8 uncoated, 80 coated), color ills., text language: English
72,00 € *
SIGNED COPY. 'Stuttgart. 28 Photos aus dem Südwesten der Republik' by Christopher ANHALT contains full-paged b/w images from South West Germany. The limited edition photo volume was nominated for German Photobook Price 2009. Book design by Stefan KAETZ.
29,80 € * Weight 0.2 kg
A goose is the inspiration and main character of the limited photo volume 'Goosewalk' by Austrian photo artist Regina ANZENBERGER. The book is the second part of a trilogy that includes the volumes 'Roots & Bonds' (2015, 2022) and 'Shifting Roots' (2020).
from 68,00 € Weight 0.7 kg
The photo volume 'Roots & Bonds' - part of a trilogy - by Regina ANZENBERGER contains forest images, created in the thicket. An atmospheric, quiet and artist volume - shown by the selection of images, the book design as well as the choice of paper used.
65,00 € Weight 0.6 kg
'Gstettn' is a piece of land that is waiting to be developed and has meanwhile been taken possession of by nature. With her photos in 'Gstettn', consisting of 8 booklets in a linen slipcase, Regina ANZENBERGER has documented this place in seven chapters.
165,00 € Weight 0.8 kg
HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 20 x 25 x 1 cm., 48 pp., color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 400 copies
from 68,00 €
HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 20 x 25 cm., 92 pp., color ills., English, Ltd to 500 copies / 150 munb., stamped & signed copies
0,00 € *
In the monograph volume 'American Reflections' the b/w images by US photographer Tom ARNDT are telling stories from the middle class, the suburbs or the hectic streets of the metropolises of New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and his hometown of Minneapolis.
from 52,00 € Weight 1.1 kg
Signed. 'Wahl Kampf Ritual' by Bernd ARNOLD examines German election campaigns by photographing politicans during their 'work': Brandt, Schmidt, Kohl, Schröder, Merkel as well as Strauss, Vogel, Rau, Lafontaine, Scharping, Stoiber, Steinmeier & Steinbrück
19,80 € * Weight 0.8 kg
Pb. with dust jacket, 16 x 22 x 1 cm., 76 pp., 43 color ills., text language: English
48,00 € * Weight 0.4 kg
Pb. with plastic dust jacket, 7,5 x 25 x 1,5 cm., 80 pp., 8 color ills., no text, Ltd. to 35 copies
0,00 € *
Silk-screen printed hardback clothbound with blind letterpress (no dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 28 x 2,5 cm., 174 pp. (incl. foldout pp.), 128 ills. (incl. archives) + Memory Book, 44 pp., + Newspaper, 24 pp., bilingual text: Latvian / Englis
54,00 € Weight 1.4 kg
Signed! 'In Limbo' by Florian BACHMEIER, describes a state of numbness & insecurity against the backdrop of the Ukraine conflict. The images, taken over the last 8 years, make historical processes visible, as well as their psychological & social effects.
64,00 € * Weight 1 kg
In 'Cut Outs' Jessica BACKHAUS consequently continues her path of abstraction already taken in photo volume 'A Trilogy' - using analog methods she creates and documents visual experimental arrangements, poetic choreographies of intense, sunlighted colors.
198,00 € Weight 0.9 kg
Very limited printed 'Far away but close' shows works that Jessica BACKHAUS has done in Chile over the past seven years. "The power of color creates the feeling that we see something that we see every day but have never seen before." (© Antonio Skármeta)
0,00 €
This new edition of 'Once, Still and Forever' (original released in 2013) is limited to 1,000 signed copies. BACKHAUS proves her infallible instinct for picture compositions that open up a cosmos of unforeseen meanings in the midst of loving familiarity.
from 68,00 € Weight 0.7 kg
SIGNED COPY! Out-of-print 'One Day in November' by Jessica BACKHAUS is a tribute to Gisèle FREUND on what would have been her one 100th birthday in Dec. 2008, a testament to the friendship between a great photographer and a student in Paris during the 90s
148,00 € * Weight 0.7 kg
SIGNED COPY! 'What Still Remains' contains fifty color photographs created since 2006 in various locations. Jessica BACKHAUS examines why things that have been forgotten or left behind pop up in specific places and then seem to take on a life of their own
68,00 € * Weight 0.9 kg
Clouth bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 31 x 25 x 2 cm., 120 pp., 59 color ills., text language: English
0,00 € *
In 'Looking for the Masters in Ricardo's Golden shoes' by Catherine BALET, Ricardo's golden shoes travel from one world to another, starting from a self-portrait from 1839, tracing a considered and thoughtful path through 176 years of photography history.
58,00 € Weight 0.8 kg
The out-of-print photo volume 'Boarding House' by Roger BALLEN shows an imaginary space of people without homes, in an abode that they are using for their immediate survival. The remnants function here as symbols of events that have occurred in this space
78,00 € *
The out-of-print volume 'The House Project' by Roger BALLEN looks back at his career through the house as a metaphor for the mind. The House project is a unique collaboration between the photographer, writer Didi Bozzini and book designer Damien POULAIN.
148,00 € * Weight 1.1 kg
German ed.! Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 24,5 x 33,5 cm., 168 S., 143 Farbaufn., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!
140,00 €
'Hello Camel' by Christoph BANGERT documents the bitter absurdity of war in Afghanistan, Gaza, Darfur, Lebanon and Iraq. He contrasts the clichéd notion of modern war as a fast-paced, dramatic and heroic event with calm and tidy, strange and alien images.
from 45,00 € Weight 1 kg
'Am I exploiting the people in my pictures? Is it moral to work as a war photographer? Why are we attracted to images of other's misery? Am I producing war pornography?' In 'War Porn' Christoph BANGERT dares to experiment with turning off self-censorship.
98,00 € Weight 0.35 kg
Slipcased HC with dust jacket, 30 x 38 x 2 cm. (12 x 15 in.), 60 pp., 26 duotone b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 350 copies
248,00 € *
Brutalist architecture & concrete fascinate Sue BARR (professor of photography, London). With her large format camera, the British woman traversed all of Italy from the Alps to Naples and photographed the previously largely ignored motorway architecture.
44,00 € Weight 0.6 kg
For his out-of-print photo volume 'New Dutch Views', Marwan BASSIOUNI visited outlying suburbs to photograph typical views framed by mosque windows. The result is a mixed representation of identity, society, and the portrayal of Islam in Western culture.
0,00 € Weight 0.5 kg
The limited edition photographic volume 'HAUS HOF LAND' by the photographer Brigitte BAUER, who lives in the south of France, contains color photographs of her German homeland from 1987 to 2017.
from 25,00 € Weight 0.4 kg
Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 30 x 1 cm., 47 pp., 36 b/w & color ills., bilingual text:s German / English
98,00 € *
'Bauten' by Boris BECKER was published on the occasion of an exhibition at Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf. It consists of a cassette with 8 color prints and a leaflet with text by Katja Blomberg and an index with details. No. 80/100, autographed on the map.
178,00 € * Weight 0.3 kg
The out-of-print photo book 'Fakes' by Boris BECKER shows objects with a secret: they contained smuggled goods or are products from brand piracy. Their curious stories often only flash up in the factual picture titles like: Bowling Ball Cocaine Costa Rica
98,00 € Weight 0.9 kg
This catalog volume, 'Photographs 1984-2009' is the first monograph on Boris BECKER, who studied with Bernd & Hilla BECHER. All important series of works are shown. In it he concentrates in a special way on formal structures as well as color accents.
128,00 € * Weight 2.2 kg
'New York 1972' contains everyday scenes taken by German writer Jürgen BECKER along the Broadway: anonymous faces of passers-by scurrying by, street crossings, cars. In 2012, the images were discovered in the archive and published for the first time.
from 28,00 € Weight 1.2 kg
Out-of-print book 'Broken Line' by Olaf Otto BECKER shows the beauty of untouched landscapes in a remote part of our earth. The photos refer to romantic landscape painting; at the same time they document the endangerment of glaciers in a warming climate.
from 45,00 € Weight 1.8 kg
Adolescence is the subject of the photographic volume 'Bärenmädchen' (Bear Girls) by German photographer Ute BEHREND. She tells the story of a fictional 'Indian tribe' that separates its adolescent girls and draws parallels to our society.
45,00 € * Weight 1 kg
In her book 'Cars and Cows', published in a limited edition of 500 copies, Ute BEHREND brings together two discontinued models of the 'American Dream' that are associated with the good old days of the United States: classic cars and old cattle breeds.
45,00 € * Weight 0.8 kg
'Girls, Some Boys and Other Cookies' by Ute BEHREND reflects the attitude towards life in the 1990s. From babies with their toys to little girls with their self-confidence, big girls with their pubescent insecurities and adult women with their role plays.
38,00 € *
Leporello, 11 × 13,5 x 1,5 cm., 17 post cards on one printed sheet, English, Ltd. to 800 copies
12,00 € *
'Les Chants de L'Asphodele' by Mathias BENGUIGUI draws from history to approach the migration crisis on Lesbos: in 1922 Orthodox Greeks came to the island fleeing Atatürk's Turkey. A space opens up in which landscapes and portraits dialogue with texts.
39,80 € * Weight 0.9 kg
Out-of-print photo volume 'TV Toes' by Gijs van den BERG is about passive activism. It contains 17 b/w film stills showing scenes from television of the young history. The book is signed with a toe print, the purchase includes the print 'Costa Concordia'.
30,00 € * Weight 0.2 kg
The special of the title 'The Bird Project' by Eril BERGLIN lies in its realization as a high-gloss book. The contrast between the natural, colorful plumage and the cold colors of the urban space in which the birds find themselves is particularly striking
40,00 € * Weight 1.1 kg
HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 22 x 28 x 1 cm., 100 pp., color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 150 numbered copies
58,00 €
The photo book 'Street Portraits' by Dawoud BEY contains portraits taken with a large format camera and a unique positive/negative Polaroid film. The photos depict the self-expression & performance of a cross-section of the population in an urban setting.
0,00 € * Weight 1 kg
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 € *
The new edition, its 'director's cut', of the out-of-print photo book 'Ray's a Laugh' by Richard BILLINGHAM recreates the original vision of his deeply personal work with numerous previously unpublished images and a particular approach to sequencing.
75,00 € *
The photo volume 'Chongqing Souvenir' Lukas BIRK is about how to bring impersonal images of violence to discussion. The people depicted in the book are dissidents who have been mounted in a book designed in the manner of private memory albums of the time.
from 35,00 € Weight 0.3 kg
In 'Gülistan' Lukas BIRK tells the story of Kenan & Filiz from Istanbul, who celebrated their lives in the city's best establishments in the 1960s and 1970s. The basis for the graphic design of the volume was the photo service offered in the institutions.
from 35,00 € Weight 0.3 kg
'Kafkanistan' by Lukas BIRK explores the world of present day tourism to conflict areas such as Afghanistan, Pakistan as well as Iran. The paperback formast contains more than 300 photos & illustrations plus a free DVD with two films and special features.
38,00 € Weight 1.1 kg
The out-of-print photographic volume 'Fahrende' by Lillian BIRNBAUM contains a black-and-white photo series consisting of over sixty shots of fairs and carnies, i.e. people in motion. The photographs were taken throughout Austria in the early 1980s.
45,00 € * Weight 0.8 kg
Linen bound HC with tipped in photograph, 24,5 x 29 x 2 cm., 124 pp., 48 triplex b/w ills. & 12 color ills., trilingual text: English, Swedish & Turkish
58,00 € *
In 'Back to Back: From Backyard to Boulevard' Stig De BLOCK documents in an honest, intimate way the lowrider scene in L.A, California. The boulevard as a place where disputes can be settled and people from different rival neighborhoods can be together.
55,00 € *
Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued, 12 x 17 x 1 cm., 70 pp., 64 b/w ills., bilingual texts Dutch / English, Ltd. to 500 copies
78,00 € * Weight 0.2 kg
Collector's Edition as boxed set, within 1 book + signed BarytPrint, Ltd. to 35 copies
145,00 € *
Thread-stitched pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 14 x 21,5 x 1 cm., 64 pp., color & b/w ills., bilingual texts: Dutch / English, Ltd. to 500 copies
0,00 € *
The self published photographic volume 'Exit Ghost' by German photographer Kai BORNHÖFT is a well editied artist book with black-and-white photographs between hard book cover form industrial building production. It deals about the Arabian city Dubai.
35,00 € * Weight 0.6 kg
Special Edition. It comes in a folder, approx. 24 x 32 cm, hand bound + 1 signed & numbered print (ed. of 30)
0,00 € *
Open binded pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 32 x 2,5 cm. 172 pp., 87 color & b/w ills., bilingual text: Englsh / Dutch, Ltd. to 375 copies
39,00 € *
In her out-of-print photo volume 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Mother' German photo artist Katharina BOSSE openly deals with a blind spot of a society that otherwise does not shy away from interventions in the private sphere: the birth of a mother.
from 38,00 € Weight 0.6 kg
'One Tree', the third monograph by Machiel BOTMAN, contains a collection of images that are dark & hopeful, as well as challenging & inviting. It ends with BOTMAN's short story, 'The Hawk & the Cat', which plays beautifully with the preceding images.
from 78,00 €
Photo book 'Rainchild' is about Machiel BOTMAN's experience when he first traveled to Australia to accompany Max PAM on a trip from east to west. That trip changed him as well as helped him look at the years that had passed and see that he was doing well.
from 120,00 € Weight 0.9 kg
Self-published volume 'Do You Sea?' by Selen BOTTO deals about unvisible waste on beaches. It contains over 50 photomontages, the Italian photographer/artist by covering areas of colored beach photographs with plastic pieces and photographing them again.
25,00 € * Weight 0.4 kg
SC with dust jacket, 22,5 x 27 x 1 cm., 64 pp., color ills., English, Ltd. to 800 copies
198,00 € Weight 0.4 kg
The book 'A Partial Eclipse' by Martin BOYCE brings together images of trees & foliage, ellipses, fractures & spider webs. Hundreds of photos were edited to create the form of a book that creates a sense of stillness & distance between viewer & photograph
58,00 € * Weight 0.7 kg
Pb. in japanese binding, 20 x 27 cm., 40 pp, 17 color ills., text language: French, Ltd. to 500 copies
28,00 € *
68,00 € Weight 0.5 kg
Inspired by military manuals, American ex-soldier Ben Brody's diary-like photo book 'Attention Servicemember' is a passionate exploration of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
from 198,00 € Weight 0.9 kg
'Outside Room 8' by Lotte BRONSGEEST presents a documentary of the life of Geert Broertjes after his cancer diagnosis. It visualizes the patient experience with common cancer treatments by subjecting film reels and negatives to the same healing procedures
48,00 € * Weight 0.6 kg
Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 16,5 x 21 x 3 cm., 144 pp., color ills., text language: English
198,00 €
'Anchor in the Landscape' by Adam BROOMBERG & Rafael GONZALEZ portraits olive trees in the territories of Palestine occupied by Israeli settlers. Each bears witness to the presence & resilience of the Palestinian people and their relationship to the land.
55,00 € * Weight 1 kg
Photo book 'Autobahn' by Berlin based Ostkreuz photographer Jörg BRÜGGEMANN contains color photographs of German motorways that were taken between 2014 and 2019. It questions the present and future significance of the achievement from the Weimar Republic.
from 38,00 € Weight 1.2 kg
Giacomo BRUNELLI's debut volume 'The Animals' was first released in 2008; the new edition offered here contains eight additional recordings. The focus is on animals 'in freedom', that is: the domesticated 'friends of man'.
32,00 € *