Conflict photography

The Anti-War book 'Kriegsfibel' (War primer) by Bertolt Brecht and Ruth Berlau processes press photos from the Second World War. Images of machines and gruesome scenes were given new captions, socialist-realist epigrams to give the scenes a primal meaning

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.

Broschierte Ausgabe (ohne Schutzumschlag, wie erschienen), 10 x 19 x 1,0 cm., 88 S., deutsch-sprachiger Text - TEXT ONLY IN GERMAN AVAILABLE!

Broschierte Ausgabe (ohne Schutzumschlag, wie erschienen), 10 x 19 x 1,0 cm., 76 S., deutsch-sprachiger Text - TEXT ONLY IN GERMAN AVAILABLE!

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.

In the out-of-print photographic volume 'Gaza Works', Kent KLICH documents the historical and current situation in the still contested territory beyond any sensationalist photography. Pictures from his volume 'Gaza Photo Album' are also shown in context.

The out-of-print book 'Das Auge des Krieges' by Dieter KELLER follows a seemingly modern pictorial aesthetic, showing that the artistically trained photographer of the Bauhaus period knew how to use aesthetic perception as a key to processing reality.

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, 'War of Whispers' by John WILLHEIM is about what was later called 'the CIA's secret war' conflict in Laos in the 1960s/1970s. The photographer's sympathies were with the Hmong who fought this proxy war. The book design is by Sybren (SYB) KUIPER.