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MIKHAILOV's chronicle of the stark reality of a historical transition and a moving work of art that offers a bold, radically open perspective on the human body. 'Case History' represents a book that depicts life in all its contradictions and extremes.

SC, 112 pp., 40 color ills.

Photo volume 'Nowhere' by Frank van der SALM - designed by Irma BOOM - shows a world that is mainly about Instagrammability. Architecture, design and cityscape driven by the mechanisms of global big business - everywhere the same antiseptic beauty.

This photo volume by Sebastião SALGADO documents traditional methods of sustainable coffee farming across the globe, revealing rituals deeply steeped in history & pride. 'Scent of a Dream' spans nearly a decade of research into the hidden world of coffee.

'Paradise Now' by Peter BIALOBRZESKI presents fragments of nature in the artificially illuminated infrastructure of major Asian cities. In the sun from car headlights and illuminated skyscrapers, the urban green alternates between hyperreal and surreal.

The photo volume 'Odysseia' by Antoine D'AGATA deals with the undignified migration practices of European governments. It contains depressing photos and images from videos, as well as statistical data and texts by Bruno Le Dantec and Rafael Garido.

Photo volume 'Été' by Olaf UNVEZART and Sebastian SCHELS shows ski resorts in the French and Italian Western Alps. The atmosphere of the tourist architecture and infrastructure in the snowless and deserted places is strangely melancholic and enraptured.

The photographic study of Japanese, Swedish and American office culture by the Swedish photographer Lars TUBJÖRK is one of the more recent photo book classics that found its way into Parr/Badger's 'The photobook' as well as M. + M. Auers '802 photobooks'.

HC, 22,5 x 21 cm., 74 pp., multi-limngual text: Spanish / English / Swedish

This photo volume by Alejandro CARTAGENA brings together his long-term project, in which he documented the suburbanization in Monterey (northern Mexico) and the changes - from urban planning to everyday challenges to the ecological consequences of growth.