Social landscape

The book 'River Under Earth' by Dmitry ERMAKOV shows some essence of the original beauty of the European part of Russia - from Baltic Sea to Western Siberia - where real pagans live and Orthodox Russia is a silent agreement of the people with the rulers.

The volume 'Fabrik' by Jakob TUGGENER conveys a critical view of the destructive potential of unchecked technological progress at a time when the arms industry was producing weapons for war. The uncompromisingly subjective photography underlines his view.

The NZ-Library Set #2 consists of six signed hardcover photo volumes from Robbert FLICK / Kazuo KITAI / Philip MELNICK / John SCHOTT / Toshio SHIBATA / Mark STEINMETZ. In an extra made slipcase, richly illustrated, texts in English, Ltd. to 350 copies!

The collection for the book 'Personal Best' was selected by Elliott ERWITT himself. Anyone who browses through the carefully edited retrospective will be filled with a nostalgic mood, a sense of wonder - and an enduring feeling for the richness of life.

The photo volume 'On Abortion' by Spanish photographer Laia ABRIL documents the dangers and harms that result from the lack of legal, safe and free access for women to abortion and uncovers a harrowing series of stigmata and taboos around the topic.

'Deana Lawson' accompanies her first comprehensive museum survey exhibition. A singular voice, she has been investigating and challenging conventional representations of black identities in the African American and African diaspora for over fifteen years.

The 80 b/w images in the book 'Paris' by Robert FRANK indicate how his experiences in the 'new world' have sharpened his eye: the city streets as a stage for human activity. The work clearly refers to Eugene ATGET and invokes the tradition of the flâneur.

For his photo volume 'The Queen, the Chairman and I', Kurt TONG traced his family's history. The work it reconnects him to the Hong Kong of yesteryear through his family's memories and humanizes the political-social upheavals that brought his family there

Fadengehefteter HC, 24,5 x 23 cm., 96 S., S/W-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

With his book 'The Americans', in which he examines everyday life in the U.S. to show people plagued by racism, mistreated by its politicians, and jaded by a rapidly growing consumer culture, Robert FRANK changed the course of the 20th century photography