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HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24.5 x 18 x 1,5 cm., 72 pp., 48 color ills., bilingual texts: English / Japanese

'Shirley BAKER' presents a uniquely female portrayal of life from the 1950s to 2000. Edited by Lou Stoppard it features better known photographs from Manchester, Salford & Blackpool combined with previously unseen material from UK, France, Italy & Japan.

The opulent photo volume 'Desert of Pharan. Unofficial stories behind the mass expansion of Mecca' by Ahmed MATER offers a unique access to this site and the associated social and religious rituals as well as the planned architectural urban development.

'A Parallel Road' by Amani WILLETT, explores in a nuanced & multi-layered way the themes of history, racism, violence as well as black identity in the USA. It reflects on the past & present within a major American theme and encourages an integral dialogue

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 20,5 x 23 x 3,5 cm., 416 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

This photo volume 'The Moth' by Jem SOUTHAM has its origins in a black-and-white photograph taken in Cornwall in 1983. From this moment, the book unfolds like a succession of memories, only briefly interrupted by a sublime moment of the rural environment.

Photo volume 'Leviathan' by Morgan ASHCOM deals about a community founded in 1995 by nonconformists in southeast Ohio and tells of the utopia of an independent life in freedom parallel to the materialistic outside world and the confrontation with nature.

The book 'LOMMERZHEIM: ...die Legende lebt' contains history & stories about the cult Kölsch pub in the Cologne-Deutz district. The publishers were able to win over 40 text and picture authors who contributed their memories and numerous picture documents.

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?