Steidl Verlag

In his photo book 'Ctrl-X', Kai LÖFFELBEIN explores the use of limited resources and documents the path of e-waste from Europe and the USA to the post-apocalyptic Agbogbloshie (Ghana), the e-waste city Guiyu (China) and the backyard workshops of New Delhi

'Too Much But Not Enough' is an avant-garde fashion project by Yang LI & Antoine D'AGATA, consisting of 23 LP album covers & booklets, Intimate texts touch on themes of self-knowledge & beauty, love & disillusion, personal freedom & social constraint.

'Die Amerikaner' is the German edition of this work that looked at the Americans from a new perspective and which revolutionized the aesthetics of the photo book. It was first published in 2008, on the occasion of the anniversary of the French original.

Photo book 'Cotton Rose', is the result of a long-term project in a Japanese prefecture, where Jitka HANZLOVÁ visited people and ceremonies over two years. For her, the cotton rose is a symbol of the Japanese soul: fragile and persistent at the same time.

The out-of-print volume 'The Hasselblad Award 2006' presents works by South African photographer David GOLDBLATT from 2004 to 2006 that address the country's situation in the post-apartheid era, including a number of his new triptychs on folding panels.

For nearly two decades, Harry CALLAHAN photographed his wife in countless ways: nude & clothed, on the beach, in the woods, in public parks & on city streets, and in the privacy of the family home. 'Eleanor' is the definitive publication of these photos.

This 13-volumes collection on the work of Swiss photographer Jakob TUGGENER, 'Books and Films' contains facsimile editions of the first twelve original book dummies from the years 1936 to 1982 as well as a selection of his 16 mm short films on DVD.

The photo catalog for the exhibition at the Zollverein Essen shows 75 haunting portraits of Holocaust survivors. In view of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, it is an attempt to preserve the incomprehensible for future generations....

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 19,5 x 25 x 1,5 cm., 104 pp., b/w & color ills., text langauege: English

In his ongoing 'City Diary' project, Anders PETERSEN - awarded with the Dr.-Erich-Salomon-Award, DGPh - examines the less public side of urban life, in volumes #1 to #3, he photographed such different cities like Stockholm, Tokyo as well as St. Petersburg

For 40 years the Swiss police officer Arnold ODERMATT captured accident scenes & property damage. What results from his official work is 'Karambolage', a selection of melancholic, sometimes funny & always strange atmospheric photos of our mobile society.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 30 cm., 48 pp., 20 b/w ills., text language: English

Hardbound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 26,5 x 31 x 3,5 cm., 384 pp., 396 b/w ills., text language: English

'Proof' by Tomasz GUDZOWATY is an attempt to utilize the aesthetics of chance hidden in the waste products of Polaroid Type 55 film. This was cult among those who used large format cameras because it produced positive instant prints as well as negatives.

This black-and-white photo volume, 'Beautiful America. 1968-1980', by American photographer Jerry BERNDT documents an important, troubled transitional period in America's recent history and illuminates the literal and ironic aspects of its 'beauty'.

The out of print photo book 'Outposts. Kandahar Province' by Irish magnum photographer Donovan WYLIE shows color photographs of the Forward Operating Bases that were set up in the Afghan province of Kandahar to support the ISAF mission.

HC with dust jacket, 25 x 28,5 x 3 cm., 263 pp., b/w & color ills., text language: English

This photo book, 'From Black and White to Color', contains some exceptional, as yet unpublished photographs and shows the development, breaks and above all the radicalism of William EGGLESTON when he started taking photographs in color in the late 1960s.

For his volume 'Wall and Peace', Kai WIEDENHÖFER has documented walls and barrier fences all over the world: in Berlin, Belfast, Mexico, Ceuta & Melilla, in Baghdad and the wall on the border line with the West Bank, with the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Egypt.

For this out-of-print photo volume, 'Roma', Joseph KOUDELKA has revised and expanded 'Gypsies'. This book contains all black-and-white photographs taken between 1962 and 1971 from Bohemia, Moravia, Slovakia, Romania, Hungary, France as well as from Spain.

This photo volume set 'Seven Stories' by Robert FRANK is a collection of small volumes that represents a new stage in his practice. As always, his photographs and stories relate to life and milieu: houses in Mabou and New York or trips to China and Spain.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 19 x 25,5 cm., 184 pp., 100 b/w ills,, text language: English

This long out-of-print monograph by Andreas GURSKY includes the artist's best-known works as well as new works unpublished until 2018. Essays provide new insights into key images - an indispensable survey of one of the world's most influential artists.

'In My Room' contains nude studies in black and white that Saul LEITER made indoors in his studio in New York, often illuminated by the lush natural light. In the 1970s he planned to turn them into a book, which was never realized during his lifetime.

The out-of-print photographic book 'From Craft to Art' contains some 100 original prints by Robert DOISNEAU, as well as a new version of anessay, which explores the ability to capture 'the luminous melancholy that separates the individual from the mass'.

HC, 22 x 24 cm., 300 pp., 220 tritone ills.

'Provoke. Between Protest and Performance ', accompanied the first exhibition as a catalog, which was shown through the magazine and the photographers involved - Daido MORIYAMA, Takuma NAKAHIRA, Yutaka TAKANASHI - and determines its historical relevance.

by Colin Westerbeck (ed.). HC with dust jacket, 29 x 29 x 2 cm., 120 pp., 100 b/w & color ills., text language: English

'In Color' by Bruce DAVIDSON presents his personal selection from his lesser-known color archive. These images date back 56 years and represent the photographer's color career from various fields such as magazines & commercial projects as well as fashion.

Out-of-print volume 'Los Angeles 1964' by Magnum photographer Bruce DAVIDSON contains previously unpublished photographs from Los Angeles. He had been sent there by a magazine, but the publication of the pictures had been rejected for undisclosed reasons.

After projects drawing from archives, Arwed MESSMER turns for 'Clearing the Dephts' to his own archive, which contains many problematic aspects of German history. Previously unpublished images are re-edited and series are set in relation to each other.

HC with dust jacket, 24,5 x 26 x 2 cm., 96 pp., 48 b/w ills., English

First published in 1974, Robert ADAMS' photobook 'The New West' is now considered a photobook classic, along with 'American Photographs' by Walker EVANS and 'The Americans' by Robert FRANK as seminal photobooks exploring American culture and society.

The photographs in 'First Pictures' by Joel STERNFELD were taken at a time when color photography had not yet been able to assert itself against the B/W tradition. They make this photo volume a revelation also in the history of contemporary photography.

A humorous documentary film that shows how a photo book is created and watches 'real characters' at work: filmmaker Xarlos SAURA & publisher Gerhard Steidl.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 16 x 21 x 3 cm., 64 pp., highly illustrated in color & b/w, 272 gr., TEXT ONLY IN FRENCH

Toni SCHNEIDERS made a decisive contribution to the renewal of the visual language of the avant-garde photography after 1945. In this 100th birthday celebrating catalog, we rediscover him as a portraitist, as a travel, industrial & landscape photographer.

The out-of-print catalog 'Mirror Mirror. Portugal as seen by Magnum photographers' was published on the occasion of the 2004 exhibition in Lisbon. A look at Portugal from the 1950s to the present through the eyes of thirteen leading Magnum photographers.

'Once There Were Polaroids' by Swedish photographer, graphic and Steidl employe Jonas WETTRE contains Polaroid shots of a decade (2002-2012). For this, he used a 'Polaroid SX-70 Land' camera with a classic square format and an 'EE100 sheet film camera'.

re-edit, HC with dust jacket, as issued, 21 x 27 x 2 cm., 168 pp., highly illustrated, text language: English

In his artistic beginnings in the early 1950s, William EGGLESTON photographed with a 35mm high-speed film in black and white. 'Before Color' contains b/w photos of the pioneer of color photography discovered some time ago in the Eggleston Trust archive.

2nd printrun, slipcased set of 2 linen bound HCs, each with dust jacket, 20 x 20 x 2 cm., 388 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

'War & Peace in New York. Photographs 1966-1970' by Tod PAPAGEORGE, comprises two photo volumes that provide a comprehensive portrait of a troubled city in a dark, febrile time. This is a city built sweetly, if seriously, at heart, to belong and to like.

HC (without dust jacket, as issued) in slipcase, 29,5 x 22,5 cm., 128 pp., highly illustrated, English

This so far only monograph on Sid GROSSMAN, a comprehensive survey of his life and work, includes early social documentary work (1930s), more personal and dynamic street photography (1940s), and late experiments with abstraction in b/w and in color.

Paola de PIETRI's photographs in the photo book 'New Istanbul Stories' document the effects of the changing urban landscape of Istanbul on people. Posture and language reflect the unstable state of mind of a new, very mixed class of native migrants.

'The Book of Everything' celebrates Mary Ellen MARK's extraordinary life, work and vision in over 600 images and in various texts. From 1963 until her death in 2015, the Magnum photographer told brilliant, intimate, provocative stories.

Reissue of nearly-thirty-years-out-of-print volume. 'Rich and Poor' by Jim GOLDBERG builds upon the classic combination of photographs & handwriting and adds a surplus of vintage material & contemporary photos that have never been published or exhibited.

SC in plastic slipcase, 29 x 29 x 2 cm., 112 pp., color & b/w ills., English

The mood conveyed here suggests a nostalgic representation of scenes from a coastal village. Technically adept like an advertising photographer and thoughtful like a conceptualist, ETHRIDGE ponders the role & importance of photography in the modern world.

Portraits of some of the largest cities in the world. The metropolises conceived and built as vessels of human activity are transformed into monuments of silence: empty, sometimes eerie places for activity and relaxation that still have to take place.

'Peru' is of great historical importance in the history of photography. Some images of this series were known, but previously the entire series had been seen by only a few people. The volume presents the complete sequence of images, based on the original.

The photo volume 'Pangnirtung' by Robert FRANK is about a village in the Arctic Circle. However, there are no people to be seen in the images. In a harsh yet lyrical tone, he shows the deserted harbor, a haberdashery, a telephone booth and the cemetery.

The photo volume 'Stranger Passing' by Joel STERNFELD contains portraits taken in the America over a period of fifteen years. Based on August SANDER's classic photograph of three peasants on their way to a dance, a conceptual strategy was pursued here.

'Havana' by David BAILEY shows him at the peak of his skills with photographs that reflect the full range of different genres of the medium. From lively street reports to portraits worth seeing, it offers an indispensable look at the skin city of Cuba.

'Subway', the new edition of 1986s original. In 1980 Bruce DAVIDSON began photographing the New York subway system. At first in black and white, but he soon realized that color film was necessary to depict the intensity of this graffiti-covered landscape.

The photo book 'Vanished Spain. España Años 50' offers a comprehensive insight into the photography of Spanish filmaker Carlos SAURA, focussed on his b/w work of the 1950s: convincing images of landscapes, villages, bullfights & people from another time.

Two slipcased HC, 20,5 x 26,5 cm., 344 pp., English

'In History' shows how Susan MEISELAS deals with basic questions such as the relationship to her subjects, use & distribution of her images, and the relationship of images to history & memory. A contribution to the debate on contemporary photojournalism.

Re-edit, linen bound HC, 26 x 25 cm., 104 pp., 77 tritone b/w ills., text language: English

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 11 x 20 x 2 cm., 136 pp.,, color ills., text language: English

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as isued), 33 x 32,5 x 2 cm., 66 pp., 4-colour ills., text language: English

Reissue of the original volume from 1971. 'Pornography' by Klaus STAECK is an irritating panopticon of everyday violence, a total work of art, offensive in many senses of the word and could hardly be more topical as an artist's manifesto against violence.

HC with dust jacket, 24 x 32 x 4 cm., 383 pp., color ills., text language: English

Lars TUNBJÖRK's images of an aimless journey through Sweden as a whole - supermarkets, parties, amusement parks, petrol stations, TV shows, food - show the dark & ​​hysterical view of modern Western society during the economic recession in the early 1990s

HC with dust jacket, 22,5 x 26,5 x 3,5 cm., 280 pp., b/w ills., trilingual text: English, Bengali & Hindi

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 20,5 x 30 cm., 208 pp., 123 color ills., English

HC, 26 x 28 cm., 200 pp.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 25 x 28 x 1,5 cm., 140 pp., 97 b/w (tritone) ills., English

'The Making of an Argument' contains the 1st project by Gordon PARKS for the 'Life' magazine. Featuring contact sheets, proof prints and the published article, it traces the editorial process and parses out the motives behind the production of the essay.

For 'Floridas' Anastasia SAMOYLOVA photographed the sunshine state on intensive road trips. Black-and-white photographs by Walker EVANS from the 1930s to the 1970s are presented parallel to the contemporary color photos, thus interweaving past and present

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 25 x 32 x 1,5 cm., 136 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

'Sit Lux Et Lux Fuit' by Mauro D'AGATI, with its images of Masonic meetings, temples, symbols, documents and portraits of Masons, provides a glimpse into their complex rituals, which are a blend of serious, mysterious traditions and everyday Cuban life.

HC with dust jacket, 27 x 25 cm., 263 pp., b/w ills., English

'Södrakull Frösakull' explores the heritage of B.Mathsson, one of Swedish modernism’s leading designers. In Frösakull, a house he designed & lived in, Mikael OLSSON has created an interplay between presenceand absence, inner meaning & outer representation

The volume 'This Will Not End Well' by Nan GOLDIN is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of her work as a filmmaker. The stories told range from traumata to the portrayal of her bohemian friends and a journey into the darkness of addiction.

by Thomas Seelig & Urs Stahel (eds.) Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 25 x 30,5 x 5cm., 400 S., reich bebildert,deutsch-sprachiger Text - here: GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

The out-of-print photo book, 'Harlem Family 1967' features approximately eighty b/w photographs of the Fontenelle family, whose lives Gordon PARKS documented as part of a 1968 'Life' magazine photo essay. A searing portrait of poverty in the United States

This out-of-print photographic volume, 'Original Disfarmer Photographs', presented at ist publishing for the first time the vintage prints of the US-american photographer Mike DISFARMER, one of the greatest portrait photographers of the young 20th century

The book 'Skinningrove' by Chris KILLIP contains photographs he took between 1982 and 1984 in the village of the same name on the northeast coast of England, perhaps his most intimate and comprehensive - of the community he photographed and of himself.

The compendium includes many international photographers of diff. groups & schools of 20th century (New Vision, Straight Photography, New Topographics, New Color, Becher School), collected by Gallery Kicken in Berlin to celebrate their 30's birthday.

Traffic/Sunset Park/Continental Divide' by Henry WESSEL presents three independent bodies of work by the photographer, each being a precise sequence arranged to give the viewer the experience of what it felt like to pass through the territory described.

'Natural Habitats', the successor to 'Landscape with Figures', comprises 70 color photographs and contains 120 miniature images that create visual connections between color, composition and time. Compared with first volume it shows a different perspective

HC (without dust jacket, as issued), 18 x 26 x 0,5 cm., 72 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

Gebundene Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 27 x 29 x 5 cm., 656 S., etwa 2.000 Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

The photo book 'Dr. Paul Wolff & Alfred Tritschler. Printed Images' shows how 35mm Leica photography changed society and consumers in the Weimar Republic period and the 'Third Reich', and the leading role played by the two photographers in this process.

With the 'Naga Hills' series, photographer David BAILEY fulfilled his long-held desire to visit this part of the mountain barrier between India and Myanmar (Burma) to document the landscape and personalities of the mystical homeland of the Naga tribes.

The photo volume 'Mary Ellen Mark - Encounters' focuses on five iconic series from the 1970s & 80s which contributed significantly to her reputation. It contextualizes these works within her œuvre alongside original magazine spreads and archival material.

SC (no dust jacket, as issued), 19,5 x 14 cm., 144 pp., color ills., German

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 29 x 34 x 2 cm., 96 pp., 80 color ills., text language: English

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 33,5 cm., 240 pp., color ills., text language: English

'Four Books in a Box', shows Joseph BEUYS as a showman, but also in private moments and allows an exciting look at him through the eyes of those who knew him best. Limited edition of 900 slipcases with a photograph, signed and numbered by Gerhard Steidl.

This compendium of South African photography, 'Figures & Fictions', offers a first overview of contemporary photography in this part of the African continent and brings together well-known photographers.

With photo works by Jananne AL-ANI, Luc DELAHAYE, Harun FAROCKI, An-My Lê, Paola DE PIETRI, Walid RAAD, Jo RACTLIFFE, Till ROESKENS, Eyal WEIZMAN and Donovan WYLIE

In 'Invisible City', Ken SCHLES documents New York's East Village neighborhood during its heyday in the 1980s. Using scans of original negatives and the five-plate technique, this reprint surpasses the original and brings the classic into the 21st century

HC with dust jacket, 30,5 x 22,5 x 1,5 cm., 80 pp., 75 color ills., text language: English

Re-edit, linen bound HC with dust jacket, 28,5 x 28,5 cm, 180 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

Out-of-print 'Werner Bischof. Pictures' presents the work, which is in the area of tension between art and reportage and was created in a short time because of the early death of the photographer. It also contains the color photographs he took in the USA.