Photobook Theory

Photo volume 'Life is Good & Good for You in New York' by William KLEIN is regarded as one of the most influential books in the last half-century - here reproduced in its entirety as brilliantly photographed & designed opus as a complete photobook study.

English ed., eight slipcased pbs. (no dust jackets, as issued), 19 x 26 x 3 cm., 112 pp., text language: English

by Fred Ritchie and Carole Naggar (eds), HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21,5 x 29 x 3 cm., 272 pp., 1,600 ills., text language: English

von Horacio Fernández, ed. With titles by ABBOTT, ARAKI, BEATON, BISCHOF, CARTIER-BRESSON, DAVIDSON, DEPARDON, EVANS, A.FISCHER, GILDEN, HAAS, HOFER, KERTÉSZ, KITAJIMA, W.KLEIN, LEVITT, LÖRINCZY, LYON, MORIYAMA, NAAR, PERESS, SCHLES, SISKIND, WEEGEE, a.o.

The volume 'Gedruckt und erblättert' deals about the photobook as a medium of aestethic articulation and contains recent contributions from art scholars on the subject, discussing the photobook as a cultural-historical, social as well as political medium.

For his photobook compendium 'Canon. On African Photobooks', Johannes Wohnseifer selected titles from his private collection that focus on the African continent. These photobooks, published between 1948 and 2011, are presented here in chronological order.

This 2nd volume, 'Conversations 2', by Rémi Coignet contains a set of 15 talks he did with players in contemporary photography to investigate the role of the volumes in the work of photographers, designers & publishers - and how their books are designed.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 27 x 29 x 6 cm., 516 pp., 3,000 ills., text language: English. Steidl, 2017.

Out-of-print dissertation volume 'Am Rande der Fotografie' ('At the Edge of Photography: A Mediality History of the Photogram in the 19th Century') by Katharina Steidl, deals explicitly with the exclusion of women as producers of cameraless photographs.

SC (no dust jacket, as issued), 13 x 21 cm., 124 pp., highly illustrated, text language: Spanish, Ltd. to 1,000 copies