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 ...


Out-of-print volume 'Beach Pictures. 1969-70' by Anthony HERNANDEZ includes 22 images taken at various beaches in Southern California & New York. Printed in tritone on uncoated paper, itfeatures cloth end sheets and printed chipboard front and back covers
78,00 € * Weight 1 kg
In his limited edition photo volume 'Tyre Choices', Gerry JOHANSSON shows how different tires can be right for different purposes. The black and white photographs were taken between 1962 and 2016 in Sweden, Mongolia, the USA, Japan, Spain and Germany.
48,00 € * Weight 0.8 kg
By chance, Mark POWER was present at the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. To mark the 25th anniversary, he self-published his photo volume 'Die Mauer ist Weg!' (The wall is away) which corresponds to a newspaper that he bought in Berlin the morning after.
148,00 € * Weight 0.8 kg
In out-of-print book 'A Clearing', Raymond MEEKS documents the stark geological & human assertion of presence against the flattening insistence of time, erosion & poverty. The figures in the landscape appear so isolated that they take on a mythical power.
220,00 € * Weight 1 kg
'Post script' by Laura EL-TANTAWY, designed by Sybren KUIPER in accordeon format, contains previously unpublished images & written reflections in which she takes the reader behind the images and into the thoughts and emotions that led to their creation.
20,00 € * Weight 0.2 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
'Eternal U' by Hubert HUMKA - 3rd part of his book trilogy, together with 'Eden (2014) and 'Death Landscapes' (2018) - is about death and eternity. It's main axis are forest photographs (life), negatives (death) and embossed texts (traces we leave behind)
78,00 € * Weight 0.6 kg
'Pharmakon' by Teju COLE combines subtle photos with a dozen short stories. The images were taken around the globe, expanding the oblique perspective he developed in 'Fernweh'. The interspersed images & texts act as intimate signals in our age of crisis.
58,00 € * Weight 1 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
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
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
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
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
In his book 'FRG', Georg KUSSMANN describes a place caught between the weight of the past & the demands of the present. Evoking German histories of work ethics, dictates, & acronyms, he takes a subtle approach to how Germany struggles to understand itself
55,00 € * Weight 0.9 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
Published in accordion format, 'This Train' by Justine KURLAND presents two interwoven narratives from the road trips across the USA she took between 2005 and 2010. A limited edition of 1,000 signed copies including a signed & numbered handmade print.
120,00 € * Weight 0.9 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 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.
80,00 € *
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
'White Shoes' by Nona FAUSTINE is a collection of self-portraits taken in locations around New York. She depicts herself at the sites of slave auctions & coastal locations where slave ships docked, posing nude apart from a pair of white high-heeled shoes.
58,00 € * Weight 1.2 kg
The black-and-white images in the self-published photo book 'Dit Skogen Aldrig Nar / Where the Forest never reaches' by Norwegian photographer Tore SANDAHL are mainly from the rural region of China and were taken between 2002 and 2016.
38,00 € * Weight 1.5 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
The book debut 'Olay' by Magnum photographer Emin ÖZMEN is a documentation of Turkey, on the edge of violence & grace. The retrospective of his work to date includes a detailed timeline, an introduction by Turkey correspondent Zalewski and personal texts.
from 54,00 € Weight 0.9 kg
The focus of the images by DEPARDON & BURNETT in SIGNED 'Septembre au Chili, 1971/1973' is the reproduction of the iconic photo by Leopoldo Vargas that shows the last image of president Salvador Allende leaving his palace La Moneda with a gun in his hand.
78,00 € * Weight 1 kg
AS SIGNED COPY!
68,00 € * Weight 1.1 kg
Out-of-print photographic volume 'Remaining Light' by Jordan SULLIVAN combines photographs taken on Skid Row and in an office building in downtown Los Angeles with text excerpted from Eugene Ionesco's novel 'The Hermit'. Laser-printed on uncoated paper.
58,00 € * Weight 0.4 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
'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
The volume 'lick of tongue, rub of finger, on soft wound' by Keisha SCARVILLE unfolds as an hypnotic visual essay impressively weaving together b/w & archival images, book passages, collages, personal texts, and film stills. With a text by Harmony Holiday
from 50,00 € Weight 0.9 kg
98,00 € * Weight 0.3 kg
In her photographic volume 'The Truth is in the Soil' examines the Greek photographer Ioanna SAKELLARAKI collective mourning, based on the mourning for her deceased father and inspired by female mourning communities on the Greek peninsula of Mani.
65,00 € * Weight 0.8 kg
The photographic volume 'Inhabitants' by prominent U.S. photographer Raymond MEEKS is the result of an artist residency, which will be exhibited in New York and Paris. The series is combined by a detailed poem by George Weld.
48,00 € *
In 'Rivers Run Through It' Mark RUWEDEL follows the Los Angeles River to the Pacific Ocean. Using large and medium format, he recalls 19th century photographers like WATKINS & O'SULLIVAN as well as 'New Topographics' photographers of the 1970s
from 52,00 € Weight 1 kg
The out-of-print photographic volume 'Paris Goutte d'Or' by Italian photographer Elena PERLINO documents the private and public coexistence of over thirty ethnic groups in the 18th arrondissement, a Paris neighborhood commonly considered dangerous.
58,00 € * Weight 0.3 kg
Self published out-of-print photographic volume 'Distance. 1991-1995' by Koji ONAKA is about an unspecified city and in its industries. The black-and-white images show railroad infrastructure and roads, as well as a worn port. Signed & numbered (178/300).
248,00 € * Weight 0.2 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
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
For 'Quand même / Anyway / Nevertheless', Dorothée LEBRUN invited her neighbors during the pandemic to create a visual chronicle that parallel drama runs. A resolutely modern artist's book that belongs to a contemporary approach to documentary photography
40,00 € * Weight 0.6 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
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
With his out-of-print black-and-white debut photographic volume 'On borrowed time' Finnish photographer Henrik MALMSTRÖM has created a quiet and touching photo essay about the last months of his sister's fight against cancer.
0,00 € * Weight 0.6 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
The photo volume 'Coming and Going' by Jim GOLDBERG tells a wider story of the universal shape of our lives through their loves & losses, comings & goings, and the ways we come to understand them - A significant contribution to contemporary bookmaking.
from 85,00 € Weight 2.8 kg
'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
In out-of-print 'Und der Garten alles Beton', photographs by Adrian CAMPEAN meet poems by Dan Sociu, telling about the love of two Romanians coming from poverty. The images show roughness of the city, the dramaturgy drifts from the public into the private
68,00 € * Weight 0.5 kg