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This version of the book 'EIN-HEIT' (U-NI-TY) is a re-edit. Originally published in 1996, Michael SCHMIDT investigated the question of 'unity', tracing the symbolism & iconography of political systems, their propaganda & the images of people they project.

'Living Apart' by Magnum member Ian BERRY includes work from the 1960s for Drum magazine as well as key moments from the 1990s during the collapse of apartheid: the rise of Mandela, reconciliation, & the alarming escalation of urban problems and violence.

The 'Fingerprint'-Box by Jim GOLDBERG includes many never-before-seen Polaroids from the 'Raised-by-Wolves' project. The 45 loose, boxed facsimile Polaroids create a new, intimate and fragmented representation of this classic photograph.

With 'Across the Ravaged Land' the trilogy by Nick BRANDT about the disappearance of animals in East Africa is ending. In addition to powerful animal portraits, people appear for the first time; essays summarize his odyssey that spanned more than a decade

HC (no dust jacket,as issued), 26 x 26 cm., 112 pp., color ills., text language: English

This out-of-print book, 'Mati & the Music', presents works by Mati KLARWEIN, which he produced for record covers by Miles Davis, Carlos Santana, Earth Wind & Fire, Buddy Miles as well as Jimi Hendrix. He has also worked for record labels such as Blue Note

In this out-of-print photo volume, 'Performance' by Richard AVEDON, portraits of over 200 stars and artists of the performing arts of the second half of the 20th century are shown, many of them in photographs that had rarely or never been shown before.

In 'Sea Stories', the photos by Robert ADAMS describe the cycles of nature with a new naturalism. It contents a sequence of three visual narratives: among alder and maple trees, along the beachand back through meadows and what remains of the inland forest

This anthology contains 160 pictures by ninety female photographers to answer the question of whether there is a 'female gaze' in photography. The focus is on the four major subject areas of social reality, family, female body and virtual reality.

'Fotografien 1980-2010' gives a perfect overview of the photographic work of Hans-Christian SCHINK, including his series around German unity and series created in Asia. The conflict between civilization and nature can be found in almost all his works.

'Nachtfahrt. A Taxi Blues' by Josef ŠNOBL shows the happiness & misery of the cab business in poignant pictures, unbelievable events and observations. A unique insight into the phenomenon of the big city between drunks, celebrities and business travelers.

'Family Car Trouble' plays with the form of the novel, both material and narrative, to illustrate the inner workings of the photographer. The recordings document arrival and departure as well as the maintenance of a difficult 1993 Volvo 940 station wagon.

The b/w images by Sibylle BERGEMANN collected in her out-of-print photo book 'Fenster' do not follow any overarching plan, but are an expression of subjective perception. Each with its details captured window says something about the people they belong to

For this really small black and white photo volume, 'Now I want to be your dog', the photographer Morten ANDERSEN exhumed his portraits of his French friend Antoine D'AGATA during their studies together at the ICP in New York in the early 1990s.

The out-of-print volume 'Retrospective' on Douglas BUSCH includes works ranging from street photography, architecture and landscape photography to color photographs that leave the field of photography. With texts in German, translated to English.

With its generous image flow, this book, 'A Diary', celebrates important Japanese photographer Daido MORIYAMA as the 2019 Hasselblad Award winner and his highly influential, lifelong radical and authentic approach to photography.

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

'Cologne and its photo books. Cologne in the photo book from 1853 to 2010 'by Werner Schäfke shows the city as a large puzzle. Whether published in-house, on behalf of the city or industry, they document the diversity of this old & young Rhine metropolis.

Out-of-print volume 'As Dark As Light' contains a set of 16 nocturnal photographs made by Axel HÜTTE in various cities around the world. Aside from the underlying theme of night photography, the works are united by the strict geometry of the compositions.

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.

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 26 x 2 cm., 91 pp., 46 b/w ills., text language: English. Ltd. ed. to 600 copies

'Here and Home', a comprehensive overview on the work by Larry SULTAN accompanied a large retrospective with the major series 'Evidence', 'Pictures from Home', 'The Valley' and 'Homeland'. It includes also early works as well as his writings & interviews.

by Fred Ritchie and Carole Naggar (eds), HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21,5 x 29 x 3 cm., 272 pp., 1,600 ills., text language: English

This catalog contains two significant photo projects from American photographer Mitch EPSTEIN: 'Recreation' documents the openness of a pluralistic society. 'American Power' draws attention to one of America's central power factors, the energy industry.

'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.

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.

The first overview volume on the work of Samuel FOSSO. From self-portraits from the 1970s to his most recent series 'Tati' & 'African Spirits', this photo book shows his departure from the West African studio photography of a Seydou KEITA or Malick SIDIBÉ

'Directions for Leaving' on the work of Jeffrey SILVERTHORNE 1971-2006 pointedly asks existential life questions about identity, gender, love, violence, sexuality and death. The transsexual becomes the ultimate symbol, seeking ways to show his inner self.

The photographic volume 'Pasaco, 1996' by Luis CORZO contains archival material & new images of places, objects as well as people involved in his kidnapping. With that, he addresses violence, corruption, the death penalty and criminal rehabilitation.

'I love you stupid' illustrates the fast life of young deceased artist Dash SNOW and his importance for the New York scene. The abundance of material as well as the 'appearances' of many people of the scene make this volume a document of US youth culture.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 28 cm., 96 pp., 55 color ills., German / English

The black-and-white images in the photographic volume, 'Happy. Brooklyn 1988-1993', are from the first photography project by Finnish photographer Nina KORHONEN is about the story of 'Finntown', a part of Brooklyn inhabited by Finnish immigrants.

In 'Slow Boat' Koji ONAKA compares sailing on a boat with his way of life & photography. The b/w photos were taken between 1984 and 1999. His fifth monograph in total was published in three editions, with the 2nd edition published as a faithful facsimile.

'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.

'At the Edge of Pictures' is the first monographic study of life and work of John STEZAKER. By using the eventful decades of the 1970s and 80s as a prism, Yuval Etgar offers a new reading of his mode of operation and a mapping of the strategies of collage

This book, 'Sketch of Paris' by JH ENGSTRÖM, presents his very personal view of Paris, with about 250 photographs taken between 1991 and 2012 - a lyrical account of misadventures, affairs and chance encounters in the streets, bars as well as artist lofts.

Long out-of-print photo volume 'Bag Saga Blok' by Danish Krass CLEMENT, is a neighborhood portrait spanning over five decades around an old movie theater in Copenhagen's Vesterbro neighborhood - presented with an impressive range of photographic styles.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 23,5 x 31 x 1 cm., 40 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

'Facing Britain', contains the most comprehensive show of work to date on British documentary photography, which is famous for its socio-political themes such as unemployment, migration, racism, consumer society, gender justice and warlike conflicts.

In 'Go-Sees. Girls Knocking on My Door', Juergen TELLER questions fashion industry and the world of models. Shot in the different lights of the changing seasons, but always at the entrance to his studio, the portraits seem to merge into a single image.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 31 x 2 cm., 315 pp., b/w & color ills., text language: English

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.

In addition to a personal reappraisal, 'The Last Son' by Jim GOLDBERG is a story about perseverance, family dynamics and the struggle to exceed expectations. To do this, the photographer sifts through his archive, which consists of various image sources.

The handmade volume 'Visual History. Afghanistan 1980-2004' by Edward GRAZDA is reportage AND personal reflection on the people in Afghanistan with whom he spent time - and a documentary about those groups' creative approach to advertising and the media.

The book 'Between Girls' by American photographer Karen MARSHALL shows a group of teenagers in New York and documents the emotional bonds between 16-year-old girls to show as well as their symbolic relationships. The book design is by Teun van der HEIJDEN

ORIGINALLY SEALED! German-languaged 'Retrospective'-catalog contains important text contributions to the understanding of the work of prominent photographer Stephen SHORE, an extensive interview with David Campany, a complete bibliography and a chronology

The photo volume 'Works. 2023-1996' by Andreas GEFELLER brings together previously unpublished works, key images as well as current works. It shows how the photographer takes a critical look at a digitalized world and questions human habits of perception.

The book 'Memories People Places' by Swedish Anders PETERSEN, contains portraits from the series 'Ingen har sett allt', which were taken in a psychiatric hospital in Stockholm. It is the conclusion of a trilogy about worlds that are isolated from society.

Out-of-print leporello photo volume 'Teatro Del Tempo' by Joseph KOUDELKA, shows twenty-five photographs taken by in Rome between 1999 and 2003. Atmospheric architectural and landscape photographs that point to the cultural heritage of contemporary Rome.

The volume 'You can call me Nan' by Will HARRIS is a personal yet universal family memoir. We meet his grandmother, who suffered from dementia in the last years of her life. The photographer, once her grandson, became an old friend and created this work.

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

Photo-text volume 'The Düsseldorf School of Photography' traces its ascendancy from the mid-1970s. Filled with superb reproductions of the artists' best-known pictures, this compendium offers the first encyclopaedic overview of this important movement.

The focus of the catalog illuminating the early phase of the BECHER school is on the mutual influences between the image concepts emerging in Düsseldorf and the innovations of the 'New-Color Photography' and the 'New Topographics' movement in the U.S..

English edition. This catalog raisonné documents the entire spectrum of graphic and photographic editions by prominent German artist Gerhard RICHTER as well as his books, multiples and editions in oil that he realized between 1965 and 2004.

In the out-of-print 'Gathered Leaves' box contains long unavailable Alec SOTH titles 'Sleeping by the Mississippi', 'Niagara', 'Broken Manual' & 'Songbook' as miniature volumes. In addition, 28 color prints with the most famous images are also a part.

This edition contains b/w photos taken between 1973 and 1991, a six-page interview with as well as a two-page biography. It was published in the 'Photographers at Work' series by the American Smithsonian Institute - like EGGLESTON's 'Horses and Dogs'.

This photo volume, '15 Miles to K-Ville' by Mark STEINMETZ, is a poetic journey through the outskirts of a fictional city somewhere between Knoxville, Tennessee & Athens, Georgia. The melancholic portraits as well as landscapes date from the early 1990s.

The out-of-print photographic volume 'American Pictures. A Reflection on Mid-Twentieth Century America' presents the photographic odyssey of US photographer Jeff DUNAS, who here portrays the United States of the mid-20th century.

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.

Cafe Lehmitz Photobook Libraries shall enable collectors as well as institutions to acquire out-of-print titles at a price that can be paid. This library, the Paul GRAHAM Photobook Library, contains currently 19 photo volumes - mainly signed copies.

Shortlisted for the Arles 2023 Historical Book Award, the photography book 'One Brief Moment' reproduces original prints by US photographer Dave HEATH with beautiful precision. Many of these prints exist only as single work prints.

German Ed.! 3. Auflage, in Leinen gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 25 x 33 x 3,5 cm., 399 S. + 23 S. Beilage, S/W Aufn., 2.100 gr., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

The debut photo volume 'Heartbeat' by Dutch photographer Machiel BOTMAN consists of grainy, contemplative black and white photographs accompanied by poetic text. The autobiographical and non-linear style of the work suggests the transient nature of life.

This out-of-print photo volume, 'Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel', in German with its numerous illustrations offers a remarkable overview of the altogether twelve years of joint work of the two American artists since the 1970s in San Francisco, California.

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.

In the monograph volume 'American Reflections' the b/w images by US photographer Tom ARNDT are telling stories from the middle class, the suburbs or the hectic streets of the metropolises of New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and his hometown of Minneapolis.

This monograph, 'I am,' on Erwin OLAF chronologically traces his career from brash provocateur to official portraitist of the Dutch royal family. Between the series, his opinionated texts provide insights into the context and inspiration of his works.

'Dancing with my camera' is the most comprehensive publication on Dayanita SINGH to date. It presents her work, contains works from the 80s, a new series and the works 'Museum of Chance', 'Museum of Shedding', 'I am as I am', 'Go Away Closer' & 'Box 507'.

The catalog accompanies the exhibition SUBJECT AND OBJECT. PHOTO RHINE RUHR and contains many illustrations, current texts and photo-historically significant articles. It examines relationships between different photographic positions that have developed.

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.

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).

The book 'Unimachi 1997' by Koji ONAKA was created in 2012 under the impression of the devastating tsunami in Japan. The b/w photographs show the urban everyday life of the region at the end of the 1990s. The series was later published again as a volume.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 17,5 x 24 x 1 cm., 120 pp., b/w ills., bilingual texts: English / German. Ltd. to 500 copies

Long time out-of-print catalog volume 'Aus der Distanz' features works by Bernd and Hilla BECHER as well as by Becher students Andreas GURSKY, Candida HÖFER, Axel HÜTTE, Thomas RUFF, Thomas STRUTH as well as Petra WUNDERLICH. And it contains two texts.

'Two Rivers' offers an extended view on the works of Joachim BROHM & Alec SOTH. In addition to the juxtaposition of 'Ruhr' & 'Sleeping by the Mississippi', it also contains also groups 'Ohio', 'Dessau Files' & 'Culatra' as well as 'Songbook' & 'Niagara'.

For 'Tree, Stone, Water', Gerry JOHANSSON captured the environment surrounding the Japanese, not the people. He took photographed rocks & mountain streams of the Nametoko Valley, deep inside forests teeming with the energy of life and the Seto inland Sea.

The large-format photographs in the photo volume 'Ortszeit / Local Time. Fotografien 1990-2004' by Stefan KOPPELKAMM allow a detailed reading of all the traces of time: the dramatic social and economic changes after German reunification become visible.

'Perspektive Fine-Art' by Andreas weidner is a textbook about analog, thoughtful b/w photography. It is a sophisticated textbook that familiarizes the practitioner with analog technique and materials and shows him how to use them for his own image ideas.

'Gathered Leaves Annotated' by Alec SOTH brings together five books on over 700 pages of newsprint, updated the original by adding double-page spreads with detailed annotations as notes & text, as well as additional photos. A new compass through his work.

The book 'The Devil is Leaving His Cave' by Wendy EWALD shows the daily lives of Mayan communities im Mexico just before the devastating aftermath of the Zapatista uprising - complemented by new work created in collaboration with young Mexican Americans.

The book 'A City Aglow' by Shunji DODO book is a warm, dizzyingly up-close and overwhelming portrait of Thailand's capital Bangkok. Made in medium 6x6 format, the black-and-white photographs were taken during numerous visits between the mid-1980s and 2019

'Petrochemical America' by Richard MISRACH contains haunting photographs of the region and Kate Orff's 'Ecological Atlas' - a richly researched and concretely visualized study of the petrochemical industry and American culture that are closely interwoven.

Gebundene Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 21,5 x 26,5 x 2,5 cm., 1,000 gr., deutsch-sprachiger Text - TEXT ONLY IN GERMAN!

The out-of-print photo volume 'The Polaroids' by Sibylle BERGEMANN contains poetic and empathetic moments that document what basically cannot be captured. Dreamlike and delicate images against oblivion, which elude a temporal and spatial classification.

Out-of-print 'Autobahn' (Highway) by Uschi HUBER shows freeway landscapes & rest areas, taken in European countries (Germany, Italy, Holland, Belgium, Austria, a.o.). Images were taken from the edge of the highway and from the perspective of pedestrians.

'Ausgewählte Werke 1978-' by Sergej CHILIKOV shows Russian life of ordinary people in the countryside during the period of upheaval from the final phase of the Soviet Union to the post-communist present, far away from urban hustle & bustle and anonymity.

In this photo book on the war in former Yugoslavia, Gilles PERESS meticulously examines the massacres at Srebrenica and Vukovar. The shockingly factual photographs show the forensic team and what they discovered, 'Graves' is a passionate plea for justice.

In her German-language volume 'Das Leiden anderer betrachten,' Susan Sontag recapitulates the historical development of war photography from Spanish Civil War to Afghanistan, and asks: what does the sight of a suffering human being trigger in the viewer?

The book 'Landscapes for the Homeless' was published on the occasion of the awarding of the DG Bank Forderpreis to Anthony HERNANDEZ in 1995. It begins with a dialogue between him and Lewis BALTZ, followed by photographs documenting places of the homeless

'Kölner Heil (Cologne Salvation). 1986-1996' by Bernd ARNOLD examines the power & rituals of the Catholic Church in Cologne as well as an autonomous system of salvation in its power structures, which lives on seemingly untouched by all the developments.

This out-of-print photo volume, 'Jetlag and Alcohol' by Morten ANDERSEN, is both a visual diary and a profound portrait of the city of New York. The b/w photographs in it take you into a multifaceted cityscape.

Out-of-print book 'Signs' is about Nino MIGLIORI, who is credited with a profound change in Italian post-war photography. The images - mostly in b/w - testify to the versatility, creativity & innovation that have characterized his work from the beginning.

The German-language text volume 'About my artists' contains speeches, lectures, texts about German and international photographers, artists, friends, books and works on the 75th birthday of the publisher's founder and director Lothar Schirmer.

'125th Street. Photography In Harlem' reflects the history of New York's Harlem neighborhood, marked by consumerism, gentrification, glamour as well as political revolt. With images by Berenice ABBOTT, Dawoud BEY, Katsu NAITO, Gordon PARKS, Jamel SHABAZZ.