Brooklyn

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

The out-of-print volume 'Transréalités' by Arthur TRESS contains photographs taken in Brooklyn & New York in the 1950s, including the dream images and fantasies that made him famous. The selection reflects in particular the influence of neo-realist film.

The volume 'A Humanist Gaze' by Joseph RODRGUEZ intimately documents the life of people who live at the fringes of society: families who live on the wrong side of the law, prostitutes in Mexico, jail inmates in Zambia and pentecostal pilgrims in Romania.

The limited edition catalog 'Faces and Places. 1980-2023' contains reproductions of several pages from the albums of US-American photographer Jamel SHABAZZ (b.1960), focusing on his extensive portrait work in New York City parks over the last forty years.

5 x HC, 38 x 42 x 16,5 cm. in a five volume set: Vol.1 / Circus: 104 pp., 82 tritone ills.; Vol.2 / Brooklyn Gang: 120 pp., 95 tritone ills.; Vol.3 / Time of Change: 168 pp., 144 tritone ills.; Vol.4 / East 100th Street: 168 pp., 149 tritone ills.; Vol.5

Photo volume 'In Plain Air' by Irina ROZOVSKY is a lyrical portrait of Prospect Park in Brooklyn, the epitome of the American melting pot. Captured is the interaction of city and nature, in studies of its visitors wanting to escape the noise of the city.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24,5 x 28,5 x 3,5 cm., 320 pp., b/w ills., text language: English. Aperture, 2016.

In his black-and-white photo volume 'Night Walk' US-American photographer and New Yorker Ken SCHLES tells of his lost youth in Brooklyn. Twenty-five years after this groundbreaking volume of photographs 'Invisible City' the series were newly published.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 19,5 x 28,5 x 1,5 cm., 112 pp., b/w ills., text language: English