Hong kong

HC, 27 x 36,5 cm., 120 pp., 71 color ills., text language: English

In out-of-print book 'Portraits from above', Stefan CANHAM and Rufina WU document rooftop communities of five buildings in districts of the Kowloon Peninsula before their redevelopment - an unprecedented insight into everyday life on Hong Kong's rooftops.

For his photo volume 'The Queen, the Chairman and I', Kurt TONG traced his family's history. The work it reconnects him to the Hong Kong of yesteryear through his family's memories and humanizes the political-social upheavals that brought his family there

By focusing on the residents of the building complex in the out-of-print photo volume 'Lower Ngau Tau Kok Estate', the color images by John CHOY convey an unusually comprehensive impression of individual people and their relationships with one another.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 22 x 26,5 x 2,5 cm., 264 pp., 266 b/w ills., 1.250 gr., bilingual texts: English / Japanese - Ltd. to only 500 copies

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 25 x 28 x 1,5 cm., 96 pp., color ills., text language: English

Out-of-print volume 'Hong Kong Rubber Boots and Shoes' by Michael WOLF contains images of everyday from 'his' laboratory for exploring the behaviors, creativity and inventiveness of the city's inhabitants, reflected in the variety of random arrangements.

The book 'Hong Kong Storage' by Michael WOLF is the 9th book of his Hong Kong books. Hong Kong back alleys were his laboratory for exploring behavior, creativity & inventiveness of the city's inhabitants, visible in the variety of improvised arrangements.

'Combing for Ice and Jace' by Kurt TONG traces the history of one of China's oldest women's movements through the life of a single woman. Combing up - a ceremony involving hair braiding and ritual bathing - meant freedom for women in the Qin Dynasty.

In her carefully researched biography 'Das Leben der Vivian Maier. Die Nanny mit der Kamera', Ann Marks takes a closer look at a woman who fled parental rejection, experiences of violence as well as mental illness to discover her love of photography.