Paris

The images in 'Les Nuits de Place Blanche' by Christer STRÖMHOLM radiate both vulnerability & beauty and represent what working with photography means to him: the opportunity to deal with the big questions of life such as love, death and human loneliness.

New Ed., HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24,5 x 31,5 x 2,5 cm., 200 pp., 128 duotone b/w ills., bilingual texts: German / English

re-edit, HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 20 x 27 x 1,5 cm., 112 pp., b/w ills., text language: French

The photo volume 'Paris Portraits. 1925-1930' features the clear, honest results of the earliest photographic endeavor of the prominent US-american photographer Berenice ABBOTT’, which illustrates the philosophy that shaped all of her subsequent work.

'Ellen Thorbecke - From Peking to Paris', features rare photographs of everyday life in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Paris and the Middle East in the 1930s/40s. The photos have a lively, candid style and demonstrate an eye for the vitality of street life

The out-of-print photo volume 'Portraits' by Man RAY contains portraits compiled by L. Fritz Gruber of friends, prominent contemporaries of the twenties and thirties, as well as people who had attracted the US photographer because of their physiognomy.

'The Dog in France' by Japanese photographer Koji ONAKA, is a retrospective of his time in self-chosen exile in Paris. The diagonals in the ONAKA's b/w shots indicate disorientation. And the parallels to the great photographer, Daido MORIYAMA, are obvious

Pictures from Budapest, Bremen, Passau, Paris, Chicago and Sovata, which show what people do with water and even more what water does with people and animals - a refreshingly fluid trip through the water world, not by and large but in the direct encounter

Even though Walter CARONE was a famous celebrity photographer who photographed the early Cannes Film Festival extensively, most of the black and white images in Serge Bramly's out-of-print photo book 'Photographe' show the rough and tumble of street life.