Straight Photography

US photographer Edward WESTON kept a diary in which he recorded his struggle to understand himself, society and his art. 'The Daybooks of Edward Weston' were edited by Nancy Newhall in two volumes: one for his time in Mexico and one for Californian time.

The narrow catalog for the exhibition 'foto-auge' in the Hamburg Deichtorhallen (2002-2003), which has been out of print for a long time, contains a five-page introduction to art history and personal biographical data as well as 28 b / w illustrations.

Gebundene Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 17 x 24 x 2,5 cm., 300 S., 20 Farb- u. 200 SW-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

Cloth bound HC, approx. 24 x 28 x 2 cm., o.pp., b/w ills., trilingual text: German, French, English, limited to 500 copies

This out-of-print photo volume 'Menschen ohne Maske. Photographien 1906 - 1952' by German photographer August SANDER in paperback format is a re-issue of a 1971 publication, released at Swiss Bucher Verlag.

The out-of-print photo book 'Die Poesie der Form' (The Poetry of Form) contains around 75 b/w images by Imogen CUNNINGHAM, neither strictly chronologically nor thematically organized: Bodies, plants, still lifes and portraits, including with August SANDER

Leinengebundener HC (ohne Schutzumschlag),

In the 1930s, Werner MANTZ was commissioned to produce an extensive photographic documentation. In the photo book 'On Coal Mining in Limburg' this work is presented as an important historical document of a glorious era in the style of New Objectivity.

Broschierte Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 12,5 x 20,5 x 1 cm., 112 S., 60 S/W-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

German-Dutch photographer Germaine KRULL is one of the discoverers of modernity. For a long time, her works were hardly accessible because they were scattered in individual archives. The out-of-print catalog with over 150 vintage prints closes this gap.

Gebundene Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 18 x 24,5 x 2,5 cm., 224 S., S/W-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

The out-of-print volume on August SANDER shows around 40 b/w photographs that are exemplary for the portrait work created between 1921 and 1930 - around the time of the Weimar Republic: people from Cologne, the Westerwald, the Eifel, Hamburg and Berlin.

The catalog, edited by art historian Cécile Bargues traces how HAUSMANN comprehensively reflected photography in this intensive decade and developed a highly individual practice, both documentarily and lyrically, inextricably linked to his thinking & life

'Architekturphotographie in Köln. 1926-1932' to the same named exhibition at Museum Ludwig, Cologne, contains b/w photographs by the photographer Werner MANTZ showing Cologne buildings from the 1920s and 30s - photographed in the style of New Objectivity.

In addition to works selected by Eva BESNYÖ herself, the out-of-print volume contains previously never shown works with motifs from Budapest, Berlin, Brussels, Paris, Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Milan with attention to light, shadow, cropping and line play.

This out-of-print new edition of the 1965 monograph 'The Flame of Recognition' about American photographer Edward WESTON contains a cross-section of his work, with portraits and nature photographs as well as texts from his diaries and letters.

by Nina Kloepper (ed.) With photo works by Karl BLOSSFELDT, Alfred EHRHARDT, Bernd und Hilla BECHER, Hiroshi SUGIMOTO and Claudia FÄHRENKEMPER

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 29,5 x 24 x 2,5 cm., 176 pp., text language: German - GERMAN TEXT ONLY! Kerber Verlag, 2013.

HC, 22,5 x 27 cm., 160 pp.

Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 28 x 21 cm., o.S., S/W-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 23 x 27 x 4,5 cm., 336 S., 320 Duoton-S/W-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

With works by EISENSTAEDT, ERFURTH, FINSLER, FLACH, JACOBI, Paul W. JOHN, KRANZ, MANTZ, MUNKACSI, RENGER-PATZSCH, ROH, SALOMON, SANDER, SCHAFGANS, SEIDENSTÜCKER, STANKOWSKI, UMBO & more

Gebundene Ausgabe, 24 x 36x 3 cm., 200 Seiten, 153 Photographien, vierfarbig reproduziert nach Vintage Prints, und 165 Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

The design of the commented, long-awaited reprint of the 1st volume of the legendary 'Fototek' book series, '60 Photos' by Aenne BIERMANN is 99% based on the original design by Jan TCHICHOLD. The Fototek series already ended with #2 by Laszlo MOHOLY-NAGY.

This catalog, published on the occasion of an auction of International Style photographs, contains many exterior and interior photos as well as furniture, an introductory text and a detailed appendix, in which all photographers and architects are named.

Fadengeheftete, gebundene Ausgabe, 23 x 29 cm., 376 S., zahlreiche S/W- & Farb-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

The catalog volume for the exhibition 'Die Neue Sachlichkeit' at Centre Pompidou shows 32 photographs by August SANDER, surrounded by artists and subjects from painting & sculpture, design & architecture, photography, film & graphics, theater & literature

In this first detailed monograph, Karl Blossfeldt. 'Variationen', which is entirely dedicated to the reception of his photographic work, Karl BLOSSFELDT expert Ulrike Meyer Stump analyzes the reproductions and traces the paths of some plant motifs.

The out-of-print photographic volume 'Foto. Modernity in Central Europe 1918-1945' by Witkovsky & Demetz gives a thematically, visual survey of modernist photography which creations exemplify the region's potential between the First and Second World Wars.

Broschierte Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 21 x 28 x 2 cm., 223 S., b/w ills., 1.150 gr., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

The photo book 'Cologne as it was. 408 photographs from 1920 to 1939 'by August SANDER, shows the images for the first time as the photographer created them. The German language volume also contains an introduction to its history and editorial corrections

The out-of-print volume 'Aus der Werkstatt der Natur' brings together the most beautiful photographs by Karl BLOSSFELDT as well as an unpublished text by the master. It follows his traces in contemporary art e.g. in the comic fantasies by Benoît Peeters.

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 15,5 x 21,5 x 1,5 cm., 88 pp.,

'Karl Blossfeldt und das Auge Allahs. Warum wir nicht aufhören können, die Natur wie eine Schöpfung anzusehen' by Dutch writer Cees Nooteboom contains 26 of the most beautiful images by the photographer as well as a brilliant essay on plant photographs.

with photo works by Hans FINSLER, Albert RENGER-PATZSCH (among others, ed. by Paul WOLFF) - 140 pp., 103 b/w ills. (83 ills. in duotone), German only

ARNDT, Gertrud / Irene BAYER / Lotte BEESE / T. Lux FEININGER / Walter FUNKAT / Lucia MOHOLY (among others) - Broschierte Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 21 x 20,5 x 2,5 cm., 248 S., 228 S/W-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 16,5 x 1 cm. (9 x 6.5 x 0.5 in.), 90 pp., numerous b/w photos and drawings, approx. 250 gr., text language: English

Half-linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 1. Auflage, 2018 Halbleinenband, 24 x 30.5 cm., ca. 336 Seiten, 475 color ills., bilingual: German

The book 'Annelise Kretschmer. Fotografien 1927-1937' shows dense images of her travels to Paris, Spiekeroog and Hiddensee, as well as motifs from the Ruhr region. The photos combine the demands of everyday working life with a very unique visual language.

The out-of-print, large-format photo volume is the first monograph on the photographic work by Japanese architect and photographer Iwao YAMAWAKI and illustrates the fascinating visual experiments of this very talented Bauhaus-era photographer.

English ed., Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 296 pp., 23,5 x 25,5 x 3 cm., b/w ills., 1.400 gr., text language: English

'Eva Besnyö. Photographer. Budapest - Berlin - Amsterdam' is a catalog whose photographs cover the six-decade-long creative period of the Hungarian photographer as well as the areas of street-, architectural and, last but not least, portrait photography.

This book, 'Laszlo MOHOLY-NAGY. Painting - Photography - Film' from the series 'New Bauhaus Books', is a treasure full of utopias, some of which have since become reality. His technical experiments have led to art forms that are still relevant today.

G/French. Following the concept of typology and comparative vision, the 61 b/w photos of this German-French re-issue capture the entire spectrum of BECHER’s encyclopedia of industrial buildings in a representative manner and in characteristic 'portraits'.

'60 Fotos. Books on Books, Volume 12' reproduces every page of Laszlo MOHOLY-NAGY's classics in photo & photo book history, along with a translation of the original text by Franz ROH and a current essay by photo historian David Evans.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 30 x 3 cm., 240 pp., b/w ills., trilingual text: English / German / French

The volume 'The Absolute Realist' by Daniel H. Magilow unites in one volume the skillful ideas of Albert RENGER-PATZSCH about the defining visual medium of modernity. It's the first English translation of the German photographer's collected writings.

The photographic catalog volume 'Aenne Biermann. Fotografin' presents the work of the self-taught photographer as an example of photographic modernism beyond the centers of the avant-garde and also addresses the self-image of bourgeois women in the 1920s.

Following the concept of typology and comparative vision, the 61 b/w photos of this German-French re-issue capture the entire spectrum of BECHER’s encyclopedia of industrial buildings in a representative manner and in characteristic 'portraits'.

Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 21,5 29 x 3 cm., 200 S., 69 Duoton-S/W-Aufnahmen, deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

Both the selection of 96 b/w images by August SANDER printed in this VEB publication as well as the texts by Alfred Döblin from 1929 and by Dr. Heinz Frotscher in 1982 illustrate how the work of the world famous photographer was received in the former GDR

Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 24,5 x 31,5 x 2,5 cm., 174 S., S/W-Aufnahmen, deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 22 x 28 x 2,5 cm., 240 pp., 150 ills., text language: English

Overview volume from Folkwang Museum Essen on Aenne BIERMANN's work with biography. "The single object, which never stood out from the group of well-known images in its familiar surroundings, assumed a unique life on the focusing screen." (Aenne BIERMANN)

The out-of-print volume 'Karl Blossfeldt Photographs 1865-1932' by photo historian Rolf Sachsse contains a trilingual introduction (German, French & English) and more than fifty-five black-and-white illustrations of plant photographs from the late 1920s.

The two-volume publication presents insights into the early work of Robert ADAMS as well as a previously unpublished text on his perception of modern sacred architecture - in the context of the buildings of the friendly German architect Rudolf Schwarz.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24,5 x 33 x 2 cm., 120 pp., 119 b/w ills., bilingual text: Japanese / English, Ltd. to 300 numbered copies

Gebunden, mit Schutzumschlag, 25 x 29 x 2,5 cm., 287 S., duotone S/W-Abb., bilingual: Italienisch / Deutsch

Gebundene Bände im Schuber, 24 x 34 x 16,5 cm., 1436 S., S/W-Abb.,

The out-of-print volume 'Das Gesicht er Landschaft. Rhein und Siebengebirge' contains landscape & plant photographs taken by August SANDER from the mid-1920s to the early 1940s. Two German-language essays provide the background to roundabout 70 b/w images

For the first time, the author, M.Stoll, outlines a theory of the photo book as a school of vision, based on the theoretical, media-specific, political and artistic context of the photo books '60 Fotos' by Aenne BIERMANN and 'Das Watt' by Alfred EHRHARDT.

On the basis of newly developed archive sources and a long-unknown stock of images, this 'Moholy Album' with more than 1,000 photographs and illustrations provides a completely new perspective on the photographer and Bauhaus teacher Laszlo MOHOLY-NAGY.

This photographic catalog, which accompanied the Harry CALLAHAN retrospective exhibition, presents the full range of his diverse photographic work, the result of his tireless and prolific creative activity over the course of some sixty years.

This volume, 'Brett Weston: Master Photographer', is the most comprehensive overview of the life and photography of Brett WESTON. It covers the six decades of his work (1925-1986), each introduced by an essay by renowned authors such as Beaumont Newhall.

HC (no dusrt jacket, as issued), 14 x 19,5 x 4 cm., 544 pp., richly b/w illustrated, text language: English

Pappband mit Schutzumschlag, 22 x 28,5 cm. 17 S., 60 S/W-Tafeln,

One volume reissue 'People of the 20th Century' by August SANDER shows a work consisting of hundreds of individual and group portraits, which - arranged according to various aspects - presents a typology of German society in the 1920s, the Weimar Republic

by Hans-Michael Koetzle. Hardcover in slipcase, 25,5 x 30 x 12 cm., 512 pp. - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 31 x 3 cm., 259 pp., 228 dutone b/w & 50 Color ills., text language: German - GERMAN TEXT ONLY! Wienand Verlag, 2014.

Now world-famous photographers Henri CARTIER-BRESSON (France) and Paul STRAND (USA) both traveled to Mexico at a young age in the early 1930s. The out-of-print book 'Mexique 1932-34' offers the possibility of comparing their photographic work at that time

HC, 23.5 x 36.5 x 3 cm., 200 pp,, 153 photographs + 165 b/w ills., text language: English

Gebunden, mit Schutzumschlag, 20,5 x 24,5 x 2,5 cm., 173 S., S/W-Abb., 1.000 gr., deutsch-sprachig - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

Gebundene Ausgabe mit schutzumschlag, 32 x 26 x 2 cm., 112 S., mit 40 im hochwertigen Skiaton-Verfahren hergestellten Abbilddungen, 20 Ills., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

HC, 27 x 32 x 2,5 cm., 256 pp., ighly illustrated, English