Italy

The catalog volume contains photographs by Vera LUTTER that she took with a camera obscura. These capture more than a single moment, but an entire period of time, thus questioning what is conventionally understood as the documentary value of photography.

The German-language photographic volume 'Bibliotheken' (Libraries) by Candida HÖFER contains photographs of famous library rooms in Europe and the USA. The color photographs are accompanied by an essay by the Italian writer and philosopher Umberto Eco.

For his work about farmers in Emiglia Romagna NERI was awarded the first August-Sander-Prize for portrait photography. A 'real' photo book now follows the only paperback catalog volume as a bound edition - excellent printed in the Alteburger Druckerei!

The out-of-print volume 'Standpunkt' shows the life & work of Werner BISCHOF from a new perspective: with his own words as well as previously unpublished photos, drawings, letters & diary entries, he tells of his life story, photographic credo and travels

Brutalist architecture & concrete fascinate Sue BARR (professor of photography, London). With her large format camera, the British woman traversed all of Italy from the Alps to Naples and photographed the previously largely ignored motorway architecture.

With his out-of-print classic photographic volume 'Big Nudes', Helmut NEWTON got to the heart of his aesthetic program. The series of black and white photographs taken between 1979 and 1981 heralded a change of style in the photographer's work at the time

The out-of-print book 'Pictures From Rome' by Anthony HERNANDEZ is not dedicated to the icons of the city of the Italian capitol. Instead, he examines unofficial monuments made up of the distressed architectural elements and debris in abandoned buildings.

The out-of-print photographic volume 'Double Game' was the first major publication in English by the prominent French artist Sophie CALLE and is still her best-selling title today. It is a double game between her work and the fiction of Paul Auster.

In his photo book 'Italian Holidays', Claude NORI succeeds masterfully in capturing that mixture of Mediterranean lifestyle & carefree holiday spirit, inspired by his travels and short trips along the Italian coastline with Luigi GHIRRI in the late 1970's

1983, having built himself a rudimentary 8X10 camera, Guido GUIDI began working on several projects: via Emilia, via delle Industrie in Marghera, and a mine at Monte Grappa, Gibellina. 'Monte Grappa. 1985-1988', traces his work at Monte Grappa until 1988.