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The photographs by D'Angelo WILLIAMS in his volume 'Contact High' visualize the black body in theatrical, dance, and occasionally everyday scenes. The intimate images focus on notions of kinship and spirituality interwoven with quiet political gestures.

'Mouvement' about René BURRI gives an overview about his work which has written history. Removed from sensationalism yet no less striking are his images of the theater of war, of people suffering in poverty & with equal intensity to the spheres of beauty.

The mono.kultur issue #37 is dedicated to US-american photojournalist & war reporter James NACHTWEY. One issue consists of photographs, the other of an interview, reproduced in English, about the reality of wars and how images can bring about resistance.

Limited edition photo book 'Bike Kill' shows life in a Brooklyn bike club. The French Julie GLASSBERG spent three years documenting the world of the Black Label Bike Club. The title refers to an annual celebration of bike chopping, friendship and anarchy.

Out-of-print book 'Manhattan Out' by Raymond DEPARDON contains street photography from NYC. Taken in 1980 during a visit without any particular intention, he later became aware of them because of the looks of his motifs, which show a feigned indifference.

In her volume 'Flight', German photographer Antonia HENSCHEL listed those places in alphabetical order that she has traveled to within a year, from Amsterdam to New York and Stockholm to Zurich. After that, the order results from the chronology of events.

This book, 'I can make you feel good' by young photographer Tyler MITCHELL, features pictures of black people enjoying daily life - predominantly outdoors - in opposition to the art historical renderings of leisure time as the purview of the white gentry.

'Silver + Chrome' contains earliest works by Mitch EPSTEIN, taken in N.Y., L.A. as well as New Orleans. With the OK of his teacher Garry WINOGRAND he documented from 1973 until 1976 the urban chaos of that complicated time alternately in color and in b/w.

The volume 'A Humanist Gaze' by Joseph RODRGUEZ intimately documents the life of people who live at the fringes of society: families who live on the wrong side of the law, prostitutes in Mexico, jail inmates in Zambia and pentecostal pilgrims in Romania.

The catalog 'Saul Leiter. Die Große Retrospective' sheds new light on one of photography's most enigmatic figures. It shows New York street scenes, fashion & nude photographs and makes archive material, contact prints & notebooks accessible to the public.