Something special

The catalogue 'Photobooks. Art Page by Page' accompanies an exhibition with a selection of 45 photo books from recent decades, focusing on unusual concepts, designs & forms of presentation that reveal the potential of the photo book as an artistic medium.

'The Chinese Photobook. From the 1900s to the Present' covers titles from China, titles published in Europe about China as well as the propaganda production after the Chinese Revolution and self-published artist volumes from the turn of the millennium.

This 5 volume project that present hundreds of outstanding ABBOTT images for the first time. These previously unknown images further clarified the range of her photographic activity beyond her 'Paris Portraits', 'Changing New York' & 'Documenting Science'

Playing with diverse formats, the black-and-white photographs in the out-of-print photo volume 'End Time City' by Michael ACKERMAN go beyond depicting the city of Benares and instead create a moving and radically personal portrait of human life and death.

'The World's First Photobook Was Blue', by ALBÁRRAN CABRERA shows their work as well as explains their artistic process. The title is a reference to Anna ATKINS, the spiral binding to BRASSAI and the book itself is a tribute to photography's complexity.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 19,5 x 25 x 2,5 cm., 264 pp., highly color illustrated, text language: English

Signed! 'In Limbo' by Florian BACHMEIER, describes a state of numbness & insecurity against the backdrop of the Ukraine conflict. The images, taken over the last 8 years, make historical processes visible, as well as their psychological & social effects.

In 'Looking for the Masters in Ricardo's Golden shoes' by Catherine BALET, Ricardo's golden shoes travel from one world to another, starting from a self-portrait from 1839, tracing a considered and thoughtful path through 176 years of photography history.

Out-of-print volume 'Stills' is a dialogue between Katrien de BLAUWER - who collects photos from old magazines and newspapers to create collages - and US sound artist Danny CLAY, who in turn works with open forms, found objects, as well as toy instruments

In 'Book Manifest' Irma BOOM presents her vision of the nature, meaning nad relevance of the book. Based on more than 350 of her books, she shares her knowledge gained from intensive research and discusses context and relationship to the traditional book.