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'Snaps' by Elliott ERWITT, offers a comprehensive overview. It is divided into nine chapters, the basic actions of life - things that people do. The photos are not meant to illustrate the words, but to organize & connect them, even with puns & ambiguities

In 'Back to Back: From Backyard to Boulevard' Stig De BLOCK documents in an honest, intimate way the lowrider scene in L.A, California. The boulevard as a place where disputes can be settled and people from different rival neighborhoods can be together.

The book 'Encounters' by Evelyn HOFER explores the multifaceted idea of the 'portrait' in her oeuvre in series on New York, Dublin & Washington, images of artists & their ateliers, selected magazine essays for and New York photos of Andy Warhol’s Factory.

In photo volume 'Socorro!' Lucy RAVEN documents the shockwaves at an explosives range in New Mexico as silver gelatin shadowgrams on large format photosensitive paper and negative film. The results are subtly inflected abstractions in this artist’s book.

'American Interiors' by M L CASTEEL shows the psychological consequences of war & military service through images of the interiors of cars owned by US veterans. The work moves between empathy for the survivors of service and outrage at warfare's violence.

The b/w photo volume 'Protest Photographs' by Chauncey HARE contains moving, often surprising photographs from interiors of working class housing throughout USA in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In addition, he gives an introduction in his photography.

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

This is the beginning set of the Nazraeli 'NZ Library' series, collected in a slipcase. Included are six signed photo volumes by Bevan DAVIES / John DIVOLA / Steve KAHN / Idris KHAN / Daidō MORIYAMA / John SCHOTT. Texts in English, limited to 350 copies!

The idea of a discontinuity between neighboring human space systems. Through the mixture of text, poetry and real photos, Italian photographers Piergiorgio CASOTTI & Emanuele BRUTTI try to arouse the feeling of anomaly and a strange feeling in the viewer.

"Whether fast concrete highways, quiet cuts through dark forests, paved commercial strips or dusty tracks on a clear-cut mountainside, Robert ADAMS'’ roads function as metaphors for solitude, connection or freedom." (© Fraenkel Gallery, 2018)