German photographer

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 30 x 2 cm., 200 pp., text language: English

In 'Daughters of Magic' Ostkreuz agency photographer FRITZ documents Mihaela Minca, the most powerful witch in Romania. Magic & mysticism are part of everyday life in her Roma family & closely knit community, witchcraft is an expression of female strength

Photo volume 'Yerevan 1996/997' by Ursula SCHULZ-DORNBURG is a facsimile of a sketchbook created during her trip to Armenia, which deals with the history of cultural objects long since dismantled and the artist's actions on the way through time and space.

The catalog 'Fortschritt als Versprechen' (Progress as promise. Industrial photography in divided Germany) places commissioned works in the context of their contemporary use for the first time. The focus is on the concepts linked in East and West Germany.

Espen EICHHÖFER, Annette HAUSCHILD - HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 30 x 2,5 cm., 236 pp., 132 color & 33 b/w ills., bilingual text: German / English

'Kiosk. A History of Photojournalism 1839-1973' by Robert LEBECK & Bodo von Dewitz (ICP Infinity Award 2002) leads you in nine chapters through the eras of international photojournalism and offers an overview of the topics of past decades and centuries.

The book 'Replies' by Andreas TROGISCH has no theme and no concept. He only has pictures. In front of his eyes and in his head. And he has his camera, which he uses to take new pictures, which then correspond with all the pictures that are already there.

In her photographic volume 'Inventur' Mira BERGMÜLLER gives insight into rooms of the collegiate church St. Margarethen, describing the church from its everyday use and thus sharpens the view for art and architecture as witnesses of a history of faith.

Juxtaposing works by photographers Annie LEIBOWITZ, Gregory CREWDSON and Andreas GURSKY, critic Jörg Colberg examines in 'Photography's Neoliberal Realism' how these artists produce the capitalist equivalent to the socialist realism of the Soviet Union.

The photo book 'Waffenruhe' (Truce) by Berlin photographer Michael SCHMIDT, reissued after 30 years - here in the English-language version - contains a subjective view of his hometown in the 1980s and is one of the most important photo books of all time.