Staged Photography

This out-of-print photo volume 'This empty world' by Nick BRANDT contains dramatically staged photographs that bring together and reveal animals and people in East Africa as victims of environmental destruction in an emotionally powerful, cinematic way.

The out-of-print volume 'Retrospective' deals with the staged & surrealist photography of Arthur TRESS, whose work is characterized by allegorical wit and narrative acuity, as well as challenging the imagination and understanding of the dark sides of life

'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.

'SX-70. 1975-2000 'by Anna & Bernhard BLUME contains around 240 Polaroids. Four texts by the couple themselves introduce the individual groups of works, they interpret the works from various perspectives and incorporate the work in terms of art history.

The volume 'Walter Hege and Herbert List. Griechische Tempelarchitektur in photographischer Inszenierung' by Matthias Harder examines two basic photographic convictions on the basis of images from the 1920s and 1930s: contextual accuracy versus alienation

Out-of-print 'Small Wars' by Vietnamese-born photographer An-My LÉ in 1960 brings together 3 series in 1 book that are both documentary & staged: Images from her homeland processing the Vietnam War, battle compositions and military exercises in the desert