Documentary

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.

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

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.

For the photo volume 'At Home', Susan KANDEL looked for families who would allow themselves to be photographed at home and succeeded in being invited into many private homes. As a result, she discovered that each house she entered was a world of its own.

The US report in out-of-print book 'Heartland' by Thomas HOEPKER is a prime example of committed photojournalism personally interpreted, of photography as reportage at the highest level of formal aestheticism. Photo history and at the same time up to date

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.

For her out-of-print book 'Sailboats and Swans', Michal CHELBIN portrayed prison inmates in Ukraine & Russia. The portraits oscillate between strangeness and reality. The title refers to the wallpaper that often adorns walls and hallways of these prisons.

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

Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 29 x 26,5 cm., 255 S., S/W- und Farbaufnahmen, deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

The limited editon photographic volume 'After the Snowstorm' by Yasunori SAITO, produced in Japanese binding, shows white areas within individual plants rising from the snow. The pictures were taken in the northernmost part of Japan, in Hokkaido.