Mobility

In 'Back to Back: From Backyard to Boulevard' Stig De BLOCK documents in an honest, intimate way the lowrider scene in L.A, California. The boulevard as a place where disputes can be settled and people from different rival neighborhoods can be together.

The debut photo book, 'Auto Land Scape' by Michael TEWES, is the result of a long-term project. He brings highways into our field of vision, shows them as an independent architectural form and elicits details from them that we otherwise do not perceive.

For out-of-print volume 'Schrott', two photographers each documented an industrial site in the Ruhr region: Joachim BROHM in the port of Duisburg (1993), Ralf KREUELS took night shots in Duisburg-Rheinhausen as well as in the port of Dortmund (1996/1997).

'Gas and Glamor. Roadside Architecture in Los Angeles' is the debut photo book by the American photographer Ashok SINHA. It celebrates in full color the American street architecture that was built in Los Angeles during the golden age of the automobile.

Today, when civilian supersonic air travel - once a futurist's dream - has become a cultural relic, the images in 'Concorde' by the German photographer Wolfgang TILLMANS mark not only a starting point for his own work, but also a larger historical moment.

The colourful 'Desert Birds' series by Werner BARTSCH was taken at aircraft storage areas in the USA, which are normally sealed off from the outside world. This photographic volume is a tribute to countless hours in the skies as well as to long journeys.