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 ...


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.
28,00 € * Weight 0.3 kg
In out-of-print volume 'Trona. Armpit of America' by Tobias ZIELONY, self-staging of the protagonists plays an important role. Through the intensive contact between him and them, relationships develop that make the subjects less shy in front of the camera
0,00 € * Weight 0.3 kg
The out-of-print photographic volume 'Story/No Story' by Tobias ZIELONY provides an overview of his work since 2000, which has mainly been taken in social hotspots in Bristol, Halle-Neustadt, Marseille, South Los Angelesas well as in Winnipeg, Canada.
248,00 € * Weight 0.9 kg
This volume contains works by German photographer Tobias ZIELONY, winner of the Marion Ermer Prize 2004. The images were made between 1999 and 2003 in Bristol/Newport, Halle & Marseille and already published in his photographi volume 'Behind the Block'.
45,00 € * Weight 0.3 kg
'Jenny, Jenny' is not documentary: ZIELONY avoids the journalistic impetus for certainty & truth. To him, the authenticity of the subject is as relevant as the question of the objectivity of the documentary image: both are never free of dramatic elements.
32,00 € * Weight 0.7 kg
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
HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 30 x 34 x 2 cm., 92 pp., color ills., text language: English
39,00 € *
Gebundene Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 24 x 24 x 2 cm., 88 S., Farbaufnahemn, deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!
29,00 € *
98,00 € * Weight 0.3 kg
English ed.! HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 28 x 2,5 cm., 238 pp. (+2 insert booklets of 16 pp.), 156 color & duotone plates, text language: English - Also to order: the French ed.
44,00 € *
The second photo volume by Tariq ZAIDI, 'Sin Salida', is the result of three years of documentation and shows the struggle of the state of El Salvador against two brutal gangs that have sophisticated extortion and domination networks throughout the region
from 55,00 € Weight 1 kg
Reissue HC (no dust jacket, as issued) with ONE signed C-Print (20 x 16 cm.), 28,5 x 23,5 x 1,5 cm., color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 350 numbered copies
178,00 € *
The out-of-print photographic volume of the Teikai book trilogy by Daisuke YOKOTA, 'Wandering at Midnight' (after 'Linger' and before 'Immerse'), depicts the lonely, midnight drift through the outskirts of a city, human obsession and undreamed dreams.
148,00 € * Weight 0.3 kg
The out-of-print volume 'Vertigo' by Daisuke YOKOTA is a kind of evolutionary sequel to 'Back Yard'. It contains close-ups as well as bird's-eye views of files. It refers to and clarifies the editing methods used by making the viewer aware of the sequence
248,00 € * Weight 0.7 kg
For his out-of-print book 'Outskirts', Daisuke YOKOTA explores the boundaries between digital & analog photography. He uses color images from the outskirts of Tokyo - pictures of cars, trees & buildings - whose colors he then reverses into the monochrome.
148,00 € * Weight 0.5 kg
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
Out-of-print photo book 'Corpus' by Daisuke YOKOTA consists of around forty grainy nude photographs. The b/w images show an indefinable tangle of human limbs and torsos in the confines of a nondescript bedroom - made tangible in an uncanny yet sensual way
120,00 € * Weight 0.6 kg
The book 'Hayal & Hakitat' by Cemre YESIL shows the hands of Turkish prisoners from early 20th century Turkey and are from the photo albums of Abdul Hamid II, the 34th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. It consists of two parts that can be viewed side by side.
68,00 € Weight 0.8 kg
At the center of 'Doors' is the documentation of photographer Yusuke YAMATANI's European tour, a self-portrait project that combines photography with drum performance. In addition to the performances, snapshots, landscapes und encounters are recorded.
95,00 €
Japanese bound pb. with dust jacket, 15 x 21 x 0,5 cm., 32 pp., color ills., bilingual (only informations): bilinguale text: Japanese / English, Ltd. to 500 numered copies
68,00 € *
'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
Out-of-print 'The Heavens Annual Report' by Paolo WOODS reveals a world of exploitation that distorts financial markets and favors those who already own the most. It gives a clear insight into how tax havens affect the business world and our daily lives.
98,00 € * Weight 2 kg
Out-of-print 'State' by Paolo WOODS takes an investigative look at Haiti describing a dynamic that is at work in all developing countries: international organizations vs. local government, civil society vs. executive power, private money vs. public money.
78,00 € * Weight 1 kg
Re-edit, HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 25 cm., 112 pp., col. ills, text language: English
0,00 € *
Re-edit, HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 25 x 2 cm., 112 pp., color ills., text language: English
0,00 € *
HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 25 x 2 cm., 112 pp., color ills., text language: English
0,00 € *
Out-of-print 'Hong Kong Umbrella' by Michael WOLF shows umbrellas in the Back Alleys. The cover also refers to the yellow umbrella as a symbol of protest against Chinese appropriation; images of the 'Umbrella Revolution' by Lam Yik FEI can also be seen.
248,00 € * Weight 0.3 kg
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 €
Out-of-print volume 'Hong Kong Rubber Boots and Shoes' by Michael WOLF contains images of everyday from 'his' laboratory for exploring the behaviors, creativity and inventiveness of the city's inhabitants, reflected in the variety of random arrangements.
178,00 € * Weight 0.3 kg
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 €
Cloth bound (no dust jackets, as issued)
1.198,00 € *
Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 25,5 x 30 x 2,5 cm., 192 S., Farbabbildungen, deutsch-sprachiger Text - TEXT ONLY IN GERMAN!
78,00 €
HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 16 x 21 x 1,5 cm., 72 pp., color ills., Ltd. to 500 copies
128,00 €
'She dances on Jackson' by Vanessa WINSHIP is the result of travelings across the United States - from California to Virginia, from New Mexico to Montana - always in search of the 'American Dream'. It contains her typical portraits & landscape photographs
248,00 € Weight 1 kg
The photographs by D'Angelo WILLIAMS in his volume 'Contact High' visualize the black body in theatrical, dance, and occasionally everyday scenes. The intimate images focus on notions of kinship and spirituality interwoven with quiet political gestures.
from 42,00 € Weight 0.7 kg
'The Island of the Color Blind' by Sanne de WILDE documents a hereditary disease of people in Micronesia. The image selection obscures or emphasizes their eyes, faces and their way of seeing - the viewer is led into a dream world of colorful possibilities
248,00 € * Weight 0.9 kg
Cloth bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), approx. 30 x 28 x 2 cm., o.pp., b/w ills., bilingual: Swedish / English, Ltd. to 500 copies
44,00 € *
HC (swiss binding, no dust jacket, as issued), 17,5 x 23,5 cm., 64 pp., b/w ills., 450 gr., details in Swedish / English, Ltd. to 500 copies
28,00 € *
HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 17,5 x 20,5 cm., 44 pp., b/w ills., Swedish / English / German / Italian, Ltd. to 600 copies
28,00 € *
No. 467/500 & 466/500, HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 1 signed print, 14,5 x 18,5 x 1 cm., 16 pp., 14 four-color plates, no text, Ltd. to 500 numbered copies
98,00 € *
Terri WEIFENBACH's photos, taken in her private garden, reveal the secret world of nature inhabited by birds that nest in urban gardens. The American photographer immerses us in the infinitely small, 'Des Oiseaux' takes us into a living & wonderful world.
from 44,00 € Weight 0.7 kg
The book 'Between Maple and Chestnut' by Terri WEIFENBACH is about the idyllic home - starting point in the 'American somewhere'. Through the use of selective focus & shallow depth of field, the photographer enters a space between painting & photography.
198,00 €
'Perspektive Fine-Art' by Andreas weidner is a textbook about analog, thoughtful b/w photography. It is a sophisticated textbook that familiarizes the practitioner with analog technique and materials and shows him how to use them for his own image ideas.
from 48,00 € Weight 1.5 kg
The war-relics presented here offer an immersive narrative on the theme of social memory. The book shows D-Day artifacts, WWII spy-craft and old Hollywood movies, dioramas and drone-mounted cameras, private post-war memoirs & wistful seaside photographs.
78,00 € * Weight 1.3 kg
'Einheit, Arbeit, Wachsamkeit. The GDR in Mozambique' by Malte WANDEL is about African workers who lived in the GDR until German reunification. Many live in poverty, because the money withheld from their wages, intended for their pensions, has disappeared
38,00 € Weight 0.9 kg
HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 16,5 x 21,5 x 2,5 cm., 240 pp., highly color illustrated, English
34,00 € *
HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 30 x 24 x 2 cm., 96 pp. 72 color ills., text language: English
0,00 € *
Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), approx. 24 x 29 x 2 cm., o.pp., b/w ills,. bilingual: Swedish / English
42,00 € *
Out-of-print 'A Dalston Anatomy' by Lorenzo VITTURI explores the cycle of emergence, disappearance & reappearance. He spent time at London's Ridley Road Market to photograph and to create sculptures & collages from materials found in the market's debris.
98,00 € * Weight 0.8 kg
The photographic volume 'A Light Inside' by Danielle VILLASANA is a counter to the sensationalist, stereotypical portrayals of trans women. It shows their life in Peru, where the photojournalist spent three years in a community of transwomen in Lima.
from 42,00 € Weight 0.4 kg
This volume, 'Homo Viksraitis' by Rimaldas VIKSRAITIS, shows staged situations taken in the countryside. There the Lithuanian photographer conducted man and animal - a rooster, a goat, a stork or a horse - for a performance in front of his photo camera.
48,00 € *
SC (no dust jacket, as issued), 16 x 22 cm., 120 pp., full paged b/w ills., English / German
38,00 € *
Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 28 x 1 cm., 72 pp., color ills., English, Ltd. to 500 copies
35,00 € *
The book 'Time Atlas' by Niina VATANEN combines images from diverse sources: personal photos, images from the Internet, encyclopedias, newspapers as well as textbooks. It focuses on time and how pictorial memory, personal experience & history intertwine.
from 48,00 € Weight 0.8 kg
Folder enveloped on valve A4 + application, 21 x 32 cm., 84 pp., 67 color ills., bilingual text: Russian / English, Ltd. to 90 numbered copies
65,00 €
Handmade Pb., 24 x 32 x 1 cm., 48 pp., 37 color ills., bilingual text: English / Russian
78,00 € *
Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 16,5 x 24 x1 cm., o.pp., 34 b/w ill., no text, English details, Ltd. to 500 copies
0,00 € * Weight 0.2 kg
'Wuhan Radiography' by Simon VANSTEENWINCKEL is an artistic result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Virtual wanderings through Wuhan, were photographed with an X-ray film from the computer screen to create a seemingly personally experienced image of that place.
39,00 € Weight 0.7 kg
In 'Surf Tribe' Stephan VANFLETEREN shows that surf culture encompasses much more than just sport and competition: the feeling of nullity regarding the forces of nature. Surfers use the waves for the fun, but also to forget and to fight with himself.
98,00 €
The photo volume 'Flandrien' by Stephan VANFLETEREN gives an intimate and emotional portrait of those legendary cycling athletes, landscapes and Flemish culture. It contains more than one hundred b/w images personally selected by the Belgian photographer.
from 35,00 € Weight 0.3 kg
The photo volume 'Charleroi, il est clair que le gris est noir' by Stephan VANFLETEREN is not only a visual testimony of a city in decline, but also a personal record of impressions, reflections and thoughts while observing the black spirit of a gray city
78,00 € Weight 0.9 kg
'Belgicum' by Stephan VANFLETEREN is explicitly not an objective representation of a country, but a subjective photographic document in black and white. It is a voyage of discovery into a small country in the heart of Europe, at the turn of the centuries.
from 55,00 € Weight 1.6 kg
The prominent Belgian photographer Stephan VANFLETEREN worked intensively in his daylight studio from 2010 to 2022. 'Atelier' - available here in three languages or can be pre-ordered - brings together these works and offers a great overview of his work.
from 69,95 € Weight 1.2 kg
SC, 17 x 22,5 cm., 86 pp., color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 500 copies
35,00 € *
This narrow photo book, 'De laffe Nomaden', contains b/w photographs from Camper Vans.
0,00 € *
For his photo volume '101 Movies. A Survey of American Drive-in Theatres 1976', Herman VAN DEN BOOM documented the remains of Drive-In movie theatres in the US-states of Nevada, Texas, California, Oklahoma, Colorado and Arizona in black and white photos.
25,00 € * Weight 0.5 kg
Pb. with dust jacket, 22 x 30 x 1 cm., 40 pp., 22 color ills., no text, details in English
0,00 € *
Pb. with Buckram linnen jacket, 25 x 34 x 1 cm., 48 pp., 28 collages & 13 archive photographs in color, no text, 500 gr.
98,00 € *
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.
0,00 € * Weight 0.6 kg
Self-published photo volume 'Als een vogel zu vrij' (Like a free bird) by Suzanne VALKENBURG is about life in a trailer park on the edge of a residential area in Arnhem. It includes about 70 black-and-white photographs showing an indestructible community.
78,00 € * Weight 1.2 kg
Cloth bound HC foil debossed front and spine, 13 x 18,5 cm., 256 pp., text language: English, Ltd. to 323 numbered copies, on oldmill archival papes
65,00 € *
Linen bound HC in slipcase (no dust jacket, as issued), 18 x 25 cm., 80 pp., 39 ills., jap./english. Ltd. ed. to 1,000 cps.
78,00 € *
Linen bound HC in slipcase (no dust jacket, as issued), 18 x 25 x 1,5 cm., 80 pp., 40 ills., bilingual text: Japanese / English. Ltd. to 1,000 copies
148,00 €
This photo book, 'Ie no kaze' (The Winds of Home) by Japanese Rei USHIGAKI, deals with the universal search to understand what one's roots are. It functions as a conversation with a place that is foreign and at the same time the origin of one's own roots.
68,00 € Weight 0.8 kg
Photo book 'The Silence of Dogs in Cars' by Martin USBORNE contains billboards of dogs silently peering through car windows. The staged photos evoke a mood of loneliness & longing. Yet they are less about dog portraits and more about separation in general
from 58,00 €
With the photo volume 'Walking Distance', Olaf UNVERZART shows his interpretation of a travel diary. Beyond sights, well-known places with supposedly country-typical folklore, it opens the view for the things and living beings in between - an in-between.
39,00 € Weight 0.5 kg
'Sans moi' convinces above all as a book object, in that the sensual unison is always preserved in an excellent way. Even when Olaf UNVERZART's gaze descends from the sky to a desert landscape, the high quality of the photographs cushions the visual break
from 65,00 €
In 'Don't Fade to Grey', Olaf UNVERZART creates images that raise subtle, melancholic questions. His coarse-grained b/w images, taken with analog cameras, associate both transience & openness. It was designed by the award-winning designer Andreas TÖPFER.
from 14,80 €
Open spine binded HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 33 x 2 cm., 152 pp., 69 color ills., bilingual text: English / Japanese, Ltd. to 300 copies
78,00 € Weight 0.9 kg
The images in self-published book 'False Friends' by Dominic TURNER play with the idea of information gaps & misunderstandings. They explore shadows & veils of a familiar but not quite recognizable world and challenge us to rethink our own interpretation.
48,00 € * Weight 0.8 kg
'Possessed' by Helge TSCHARN documents the skateboarding scene from the inside. He manages to capture the tricks at the decisive moment. The portrayed skateboarders gave him their trust and let themselves be photographed during the most daring maneuvers.
0,00 € * Weight 1 kg
HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 17,5 x 24 x 1 cm., 120 pp., b/w ills., bilingual texts: English / German. Ltd. to 500 copies
48,00 €
The book 'Replies' by Andreas TROGISCH has no theme and no concept. He only has pictures. In front of his eyes and in his head. And he has his camera, which he uses to take new pictures, which then correspond with all the pictures that are already there.
75,00 € * Weight 1.2 kg
In 'Eight Days A Week' Andreas TROGISCH lets the world come into being by putting the motifs into a kind of natural-historical order. After the original creation is finished punctually to the Sabbath every time, the Anthropocene breaks on the day 7+.
from 68,00 € Weight 1.7 kg
The self-published photo volume 'Chapitre 2 - Claudine. A story about family, hoarding, love and loneliness' by Ariane TOUSSAINT is about great-aunt Claudine, a hoarder, old and frail. Life & home depend on the delicate balance between love and loneliness
0,00 € * Weight 0.5 kg
Unbound Pb.in red plastic bag, DIN A4, 40 pp., offset silver HUV printed infra-red ills., paper: Serio Nero, no text, Ltd. to 600 copies
20,00 € *
The out-of-print photographic volume 'The Man of the Crowd' by Elisabeth TONNARD is about observing and being observed in the urban crowd. It connects Edgar Allan Poe’s story ‘The Man of the Crowd’ to a chance occurrence photographed in a Parisian street.
49,00 € * Weight 0.3 kg
'Combing for Ice and Jace' by Kurt TONG traces the history of one of China's oldest women's movements through the life of a single woman. Combing up - a ceremony involving hair braiding and ritual bathing - meant freedom for women in the Qin Dynasty.
0,00 € * Weight 0.8 kg
'TTP' by Hayahisa TOMIYASU consists of a series of photos taken from the 8th floor window of his student dormitory in Leipzig. Each picture is composed similarly, but turning the page, we see how the function of the ping-pong table is constantly changing.
from 45,00 € Weight 0.9 kg
The volume 'World Is Where You Stop' by Tomasz TOMASZEWSKI looks critically at our reality, where good & evil, euphoria & suffering, wealth & poverty, virtue & licentiousness, coexist side by side - situations that are difficult to pass by indifferently.
138,00 € * Weight 2 kg
The out-of-print book 'Escape' by Danila TKACHENKO is about men who have turned their backs on society to live alone in the wilderness of the Russian and Ukrainian forests. It raises the question of their own personal freedom and the possible consequences
198,00 € * Weight 0.9 kg
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 € *
The out-of-print accordion-format photo book 'Petros Village' by Guy TILLIM is about the rural life of the villagers of a small village in the East African Republic of Malawi. About one-third of the double-page photographs show portraits of its residents.
120,00 € Weight 0.7 kg
PB. (no dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 31,5 X 1,5 cm., 56 pp., 70 color & b/w ills., text language: French
198,00 € Weight 0.5 kg
Pb., 17 x 23,5 x 1 cm., 96 pp., 5 colours (b/w ills.), no text, some informations in English
0,00 € * Weight 0.4 kg
In 'Scatching My Name on Your Arm', the American photographer Deanna TEMPLETON documents the prevailing trend in California in the early 2000s that famous surfers' immortalize 'themselves on their fans' bare skin or underwear and bathing clothes.
148,00 €
The photographic volume 'Yajiri' by the Japanese photographer Akihide TAMURA, limited to 300 signed and numbered copies, contains fifteen color photographs of flying military aircraft at a U.S. air base near Tokyo.
38,00 € Weight 0.2 kg
HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 22,5 x 25,5 x 1,5 cm., 86 pp., bilingual text: Japanese / English, Ltd. to 350 copies
0,00 € *
Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 18 x 26 x 0,5 cm., 12 pp., 19 color ills., text/subtitle language: Japanese - JAPANESE TEXT ONLY
24,00 € *