Photo journalism

by Matz / Vollmer. Huge presentation box, within ONE book (HC, 24 x 29 cm., 392 pp., 440 color ills., German) + ONE OF THREE Digital-PhotoPrints from analog negativ (29 x 42 cm.) - Ltd. to 250 copies! Greven Verlag, 2014.

This book runs completely under the radar; for me it belongs in every good sorted photo journalistic library. While researches for a new image motif in art/photography of the early 20th century the editor collected interesting, often unknown material.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 28 x 1 cm., 136 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

'Hello Camel' by Christoph BANGERT documents the bitter absurdity of war in Afghanistan, Gaza, Darfur, Lebanon and Iraq. He contrasts the clichéd notion of modern war as a fast-paced, dramatic and heroic event with calm and tidy, strange and alien images.

The out-of-print 'Zeitblende' was published on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the famous photo agency Magnum. The picture & text book provides an overview of the impressive field of reportage photography that is commensurate with its significance

'Josef Koudelka. Next: A Visual Biography' by Melissa Harris - not a photo volume - is the definitive and only authorized biography of Josef KOUDELKA, an intimate portrait of the life and work of one of photography’s most renowned and celebrated artists.

HC in accordeon style, 13 x 18 x 3,5 cm., 127 pp., 120 color ills., text language: English

In 'An Act of Unspeakable Violence' Matthias BRUGGMANN critically examines the representation of the horrors of war. In his book he questions the codes of photojournalism and shifts the dividing lines between documentary photography & plastic photography.

The photo book 'Message from the Interiror' is a large-format, paperback volume consisting of twelve masterpieces by Walker EVANS: black and white photographs, carefully reproduced using the gravure printing process, show views of American interiors.

This out-of-print catalog volume shows how Bill BRANDT - a German-British key figure in 20th century photography - was fascinated by the strange and dark aspects of life, from his earliest photographs from the 1930s to his late portraits and body studies.