Documentary photography

In 'Road to Barking' David BAILEY documents the borough of Barking & Dagenham in London's East End and its inhabitants: musicians, flower sellers & butchers, passengers on the Underground, policemen & punks and abandoned boats on the banks of the Thames.

'Ellen Thorbecke - From Peking to Paris', features rare photographs of everyday life in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Paris and the Middle East in the 1930s/40s. The photos have a lively, candid style and demonstrate an eye for the vitality of street life

Slipcased HC with dust jacket, 30 x 38 x 2 cm. (12 x 15 in.), 56 pp., 43 four color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 350 numbered copies

'Off Duty' by Arnold ODERMATT is an impressive document about the staging of a life in the village world, where a police officer's evening is not private, but civil. So wife, son, daughter wait patiently to annoyed, because a proper picture takes its time

HC (without dust jacket, as issued), 20,5 x 29,5 cm., 144 pp., text language: English

In the documentary photo book 'The Imaginary Republic', Polish photographer Pawel JASZCZUK, with the assistance of manga critic Kaoru NAGAYAMA, who wrote the essay, explores the Japanese penchant for erotic comics in which girls are the main characters.

The documentary photo volume 'Aids in Odessa' by German photographer Andrea DIEFENBACH, which is out of print, documents the living situation in Odessa, where the AIDS epidemic spread particularly quickly after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The images contained in 'Abandoned Moments' by Ed KASHI show fleeting yet unique moments full of exuberant energy - the chaos of everyday life. In contrast to his journalistic approach, here he abandons himself entirely to the untamed energy of the moment

Since 1957, Bernd & Hilla BECHER have compiled a wealth of examples of the industrial building type for 'Wassertürme' (Water Towers) photo book. Although they are functional buildings, the photographed specimens reveal an unprecedented variety of shapes.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 20 x 30 cm., 144 pp., color ills., English