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What in other families' guest room was called the 'Africa room' by the SCHÖNHARTINGs. In the lavishly designed book 'Das Erbe', the Ostkreuz photographer embarks on an associative journey, a personal dialogue with private, social colonial responsibility.

This volume that finishes Alejandro CARTAGENA's 'Santa Barbara' photo book project is still drawing an uncertain future. From the beginning, his pictures channeled the fear of fire and the flames that charred scars leave behind. And what's next?

In the out-of-print 'Die Elbe', Jörn VANHÖFEN delves into the ephemeral and atmospheric, he discovers Elbe ports and cities and, of course, the faces of the Germans & Czechs living here. Stories of life on the Elbe and biographical memories round it off.

In his out-of-print photo book 'Long Play', Arne REIMER looks back at the analog age: there are photographs of stacked vinyl records, views of record stores as well as record boxes. The whole is supplemented by archive material that shows the development.

This beautifully designed catalog volume, 'And Time Folds', accompanied the great retrospective of the British photographer Vanessa WINSHIP and includes all of her important series as well as heretofore unpublished current works.

'TTP' by Hayahisa TOMIYASU consists of a series of photos taken from the 8th floor window of his student dormitory in Leipzig. Each picture is composed similarly, but turning the page, we see how the function of the ping-pong table is constantly changing.

In 'Swarm', Lukas FELZMANN deals with the flock movements of migratory birds. His b/w photographs offer a unique view of the beauty as well as the complexity and diversity of flight variations. 'Best Photography Book of the Year' Award, in 2012 in Madrid.

With the out-of-print book 'North Warning System', Donovan WYLIE concludes his 'The Tower Series'. Surveying a radar station in the Canadian Arctic, the photographer explores the detection of unseen threats by unmanned observation posts in remote regions.

The out-of-print photo book 'Keiko' by World Press photo awarded photographer Tomasz GUDZOWATY documents the life of ship scrappers in Chittagong, Bangladesh, where 30 to 40 percent of all 700 ocean-going vessels decommissioned each year are cannibalized.

Cloth bound HC (no dustjacket, as issued), 18 x 26 x 2,5 cm., 192 pp. with differently sized inserts, b/w & color ills., text language: English