California

The photo volume 'Scapes' by American John DIVOLA contains some of his renowned series like 'Four Landscapes', 'As Far As I Could Get' and 'Dogs chaising my car in the desert'. The books on these have long been out of print. The essay is by David Campany.

'Day Sleeper' shows Dorothea LANGE through the eyes of Sam CONTIS, addressing resonances between the two ways of seeing. An unknown side with unseen photos of her family, studio portraits and photos taken in the streets of San Francisco and the East Bay.

Crescent City was once a place almost limitlessly rich in natural resources. In 'Redwood Saw' Richard ROTHMAN tries to document culture, people & landscape of this city in particular and the USA in general, the place serves as a model of a former boomtown

Ed RUSCHA is known for his paintings & drawings, but also for his photography. This catalog volume, 'Photographer', examines how the artist's various disciplines - painting, drawing, printmaking and photography - were guided and shaped by a single vision.

'ZZYZX' by Gregory HALPERN, contains photos from California - starting in the desert east of Los Angeles, stretching west through the city to the Pacific. It's an opus of fiction or fantasy - a structure that, like L.A. itself, is on the verge of collapse

This out-of-print volume, 'Picturing America: Photorealism in the 1970's', offers a snapshot of this chapter in art history, when in the late 1960's a number of young artist:s in the United States began painting images directly from photographs.

For 'She Disappeared into Complete Silence', Mona KUHN balances architectural lines, light reflections with a human figure against the backdrop of the California desert. The figure: surrealistic, fragmented, indistinct, sometimes in shadow or overexposed.

This expanded, revised edition of 'Los Angeles Spring' - one of Robert ADAMS' most influential series - shows what was left of those citrus groves, eucalyptus trees and palms that once flourished there in the 1970s and 1980s when he returned to L.A. Basin

'Forever' photographs the movements of homeless people in L.A. from the perspective of the homeless. Instead of traces of material - chair or sleeping place, HERNANDEZ photographed between 2007 and 2012 what could be seen & observed from the street itself

In her book 'Cars and Cows', published in a limited edition of 500 copies, Ute BEHREND brings together two discontinued models of the 'American Dream' that are associated with the good old days of the United States: classic cars and old cattle breeds.