Steidl Verlag

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This photo book, 'From Black and White to Color', contains some exceptional, as yet unpublished photographs and shows the development, breaks and above all the radicalism of William EGGLESTON when he started taking photographs in color in the late 1960s.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