Object photography

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 20,5 x 30 cm., 208 pp., 123 color ills., English

'In Case It Rains in Heaven' by Kurt TONG shows the Chinese tradition of burning incense paper to influence ancestor's afterlife positively. Increasingly elaborated 'spirit money' represents the wishes of the living in an increasingly Westernized society.

by Nina Kloepper (ed.) With photo works by Karl BLOSSFELDT, Alfred EHRHARDT, Bernd und Hilla BECHER, Hiroshi SUGIMOTO and Claudia FÄHRENKEMPER

Using old paintings, newspaper clippings, letters & photographs, this book, 'Dear Franklin' by Kurt TONG, tells a fictional love story and immerses the reader in the history of the Chinese diaspora, from the fall of the Middle Kingdom in 1912 to the 1950s

The book 'Dinge' by Johannes GRAMM forms the conclusion of a long-term project. Even more than the materials & shapes of the real objects in the book and their photos, the objects themselves evoke universal, familiar memories, very directly while reading.

'Cathédrales et églises de France' (1949) is the motif in the photo volume 'Cathédrales' by Laurence AEGERTER, who placed the volume at the window of her studio and photographed the natural light incidence with the shadow reproduction of Bourges Cathedral

The out-of-print photo book 'Fakes' by Boris BECKER shows objects with a secret: they contained smuggled goods or are products from brand piracy. Their curious stories often only flash up in the factual picture titles like: Bowling Ball Cocaine Costa Rica