Historical topic

HC with dust jacket, 18,5 x 24 x 2,5 cm. (9,5 x 7 in.), 196 pp., 120 color & Duotone b/w ills., text language: English

'Todesmarsch 1945. Leipzig – Fojtovice' is a harrowing combination of contemporary documents, survivor reports and artistic photographs as black & white double exposures by Herbert NAUMANN as an impressive reminder of the terrible suffering that spring.

Out-of-print photo volume 'TV Toes' by Gijs van den BERG is about passive activism. It contains 17 b/w film stills showing scenes from television of the young history. The book is signed with a toe print, the purchase includes the print 'Costa Concordia'.

Using a piece of lost landscape in the heart of Berlin, Andreas GEHRKE explores in 'Topography' whether places can preserve memories. This area, regularly visited & photographed over the course of a year, is only what it is, and yet it transports history.

'RAF. No evidence 'by Arwed MESSMER spans the arc from the beginnings to the multiple violent discharges in 1977. It offers a new perspective and also shows a ethical dimension: which pictures can be shown, how can they be shown, why should we see them?

The book 'Hayal & Hakitat' by Cemre YESIL shows the hands of Turkish prisoners from early 20th century Turkey and are from the photo albums of Abdul Hamid II, the 34th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. It consists of two parts that can be viewed side by side.

This photo volume 'Standing by the Wall - Berlin 1990' by Josef Wolfgang MAYER is designed in triptychs and consists exclusively of fold-out pages that expand the individual picture into a panorama. This suddenly makes the past time present again.

The retrospective catalog 'Schöne Aussichten' includes not only well-known works by Klaus STAECK, but also the still largely unknown photos of the Bitterfeld cycle, which finds its artistic position between documentation and photographed historiography.

In 'Satellites', Jonas BENDIKSEN takes us to the little-known worlds of Transnistria, Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabakh, the Ferghana Valley, the Jewish Autonomous Region and spaceship accidents in the Kazakh steppe - the story of the Soviet collapse continues.

For 'Anonymous Mitte. Berlin' Arwed MESSMER has visited this magical place again and again since 1995 and captured the changes photographically. An essay by Annett Gröschner as well as a text by Florian Ebner on Berlin urban photography complete the book.