Something special

Based on a classic landscape tradition, carefully composed 5x4 photographs are given a special effect by increasing the color & composition. Especially in moments when the expected narrative is roughly often gross due to pollution or destruction of nature

Photo volume 'Private Views. A Highrise Panorama of Manhattan' by Andi SCHMIED provides views from the tallest buildings in Manhattan, for example over Central Park, or from the bathroom in Calacatta Tucci marble with a view of the Empire State Building.

Pb. with dust jacket & obi belt, 22,5 x 30 x 3,5 cm., 432 pp., 291 b/w ills. text language: English

97 unique images made from the same photographic negative. A photo book about the oldest living organism known to man and a book about the instability of the photographic image and the enigmatic intertwinement of time, reality and perception.

2nd print run, pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 24,5 x 30 cm., 46 pp., b/w ills., bilingual text: English / Lithuanian

'Provoke. Between Protest and Performance ', accompanied the first exhibition as a catalog, which was shown through the magazine and the photographers involved - Daido MORIYAMA, Takuma NAKAHIRA, Yutaka TAKANASHI - and determines its historical relevance.

'Directions for Leaving' on the work of Jeffrey SILVERTHORNE 1971-2006 pointedly asks existential life questions about identity, gender, love, violence, sexuality and death. The transsexual becomes the ultimate symbol, seeking ways to show his inner self.

'I love you stupid' illustrates the fast life of young deceased artist Dash SNOW and his importance for the New York scene. The abundance of material as well as the 'appearances' of many people of the scene make this volume a document of US youth culture.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 30 x 21 cm., 32 pp., 38 b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 300 copies

Long out-of-print photo volume 'Bag Saga Blok' by Danish Krass CLEMENT, is a neighborhood portrait spanning over five decades around an old movie theater in Copenhagen's Vesterbro neighborhood - presented with an impressive range of photographic styles.

In 'Zuerst das Leben' Willy RONIS documents a modern socialism, ignoring the problems of the system. These are pictures about everyday life in the GDR, which - detached from the context of the Cold War - unfold their full stylistic and aesthetic effect.

In Yoruba country in Nigeria, the birth rate of twins is ten times higher than usual. Based on this story, the photographers Sanne de WILDE & Bénédicte KURZEN have made twin pairs colorful portraits in 'Land of Ibeji', staging them extremely imaginative.

HC, 25,5 x 25,5 cm. in Clamshell (28 x 28 cm.), 92 pp., color ils., text language: English, Ltd. to 1,000 numbered copies

In his out-of-print photo book 'Travel Plans' Jeffrey SILVERTHORNE takes us by the hand, leading us past the beauty and the grand guignol of a life in the shadow of mortality. The longer you look, the more questions they provoke, and with that: compassion

Out-of-print leporello photo volume 'Teatro Del Tempo' by Joseph KOUDELKA, shows twenty-five photographs taken by in Rome between 1999 and 2003. Atmospheric architectural and landscape photographs that point to the cultural heritage of contemporary Rome.

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.

In out-of-print photo book 'Die Deutschen', René BURRI mainly depicts everyday life in Germany, where the bullet holes from the war can still be seen on the wall of the building. Hepursued his project for many decades. In 1986 and 1999, it was republished

The special edition of self published photo volume 'Wet City / Islak Kent' by turkish photographer Yusuf Murat SEN comes in a special box including a numbered & signed copy plus one limited edition fine art print. This edition box is limited to 100 copies

'The Day May Break' by Nick BRANDT portrays people with animals affected by environmental impacts. Due to climate change, people have been displaced e.g. by hurricanes or droughts. The rescued animals could be photographed in one picture with humans.

Traditional bound folder with screen printing and binder rings (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 30 x 2 cm., 78 pp., highly illustrated, text language: Spanish, Ltd. to 250 copies

Linen bound HC (with acetate dust jacket), 31 x 24 x 2 cm., 72 pp., color ills., text language: English

'She dances on Jackson' by Vanessa WINSHIP is the result of travelings across the United States - from California to Virginia, from New Mexico to Montana - always in search of the 'American Dream'. It contains her typical portraits & landscape photographs

'La Puente' about women in a brothel in Ecuador by Charlotte SCHMITZ won the FotoEvidence competition to publish the series as a book. The polaroids were created in cooperation with the women, who chose their poses and painted the photos with nail polish.

18x linen bound HC with dust jackets (mostly), each book: 18,5 x 24 cm. (9,5 x 7 in.), with duotone b/w &/or color ills., text langiage: English

2nd print run, HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 32 x 2 x 24.5 cm. (9¾ x 12½ inch.), 232 pp. (28 double gatefolds), b/w ills., text language: English

The self-published photo volume 'Wet City / Islak Kent' Murat Yusuf SEN's contribution to the urban change in Istanbul. He contrasts the rapid development with the slow process of the collodion wet process from the beginnings of photography.

A poetic journey to vacation spots that vacation themselves. Finns are only perceptible outside in the three summer months, but in the popular holiday resorts of Hanki or Naantali you can still feel a touch of summer flair in winter.

SC with dust jacket, 22,5 x 27 x 1 cm., 64 pp., color ills., English, Ltd. to 800 copies

Limited edition photo book 'Bike Kill' shows life in a Brooklyn bike club. The French Julie GLASSBERG spent three years documenting the world of the Black Label Bike Club. The title refers to an annual celebration of bike chopping, friendship and anarchy.

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.

Facsimile. pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), ca. 20 x 25 x 1 cm., 32 pp., b/w ills., Ltd. to 250 copies with 2 different silk-screened covers (= 500 copies in total!)

'Hurricane Season' by Hannah MODIGH deals on an area in Louisiana which is each year at summer and autumn flooded by storms. The floods are a natural part of life and the inhabitants have in a fatalistic way adapted to the frequency of the hurricanes.

'Belgicum' by Stephan VANFLETEREN is explicitly not an objective representation of a country, but a subjective photographic document in black and white. It is a voyage of discovery into a small country in the heart of Europe, at the turn of the centuries.

2 x HC (24/18 x 30 cm., together approx. 700 pp. (206 & ), highly illustrated, English

1st print run, HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 122 pp., 116 color ills., text language: English. Ltd. to 700 copies

The self-published photo volume 'Discordia' by Moises SAMAN is a personal examination of the Arab Spring. The images from Syria, Libya and Egypt gain additional dynamics through the collages by Daria Birang. Folding pages create further cross-references.

Reissue HC (no dust jacket, as issued) with ONE signed C-Print (20 x 16 cm.), 28,5 x 23,5 x 1,5 cm., color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 350 numbered copies

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 30,5 cm.(9,5 x 12 inch.), 375 pp., color & b/w ills., ilingual text: French / English

In 'Congo (Belge)' follows Belgian Magnum photographer Carl de KEYZER with the help of an old travel guide from 1958 the relics of an organizational structure that once served the Belgian colonial power to effectively exploit the country and its people.

Photo book 'Suburban Bus' by Mexican photographer Alejandro CARTAGENA tells the story of people who want a better life in a city that lacks everything: decent roads, enough buses and safety on buses. It is shortlisted for the Paris PhotoBook Award 2021.

The documentation of the domestic bird world in this self published book, 'The Pillar' by Stephen GILL, was designed by the Greger Ulf NILSSON to a high-quality volume, which pleases not only birdwatchers, but also photo book lovers with lasting effect.

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

HC, 30 x 26 cm., 132 pp.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24,5 x 30,5 cm., 104 pp., duotone b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 500 copies

'It's a strange feeling to look back at the young person I used to be. What happened? What has changed? The apartments. The face has grown older. What else?' - At least not the style in Elina BROTHERUS' self-portraits, that has remained pretty constant.

The artist photo volume 'Für mich' (For Me) by German photographer Sina NIEMEYER is an autobiographical story about sexual abuse. The project was born out of the need to understand and come to terms with what happened to her at a pre-pubescent age.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 22 x 28 x 4 cm., 498 pp., full paged b/w & color ills., bilingual texts: Estonian / English

The photo volume 'Charleroi, il est clair que le gris est noir' by Stephan VANFLETEREN is not only a visual testimony of a city in decline, but also a personal record of impressions, reflections and thoughts while observing the black spirit of a gray city

The photo volume 'Flandrien' by Stephan VANFLETEREN gives an intimate and emotional portrait of those legendary cycling athletes, landscapes and Flemish culture. It contains more than one hundred b/w images personally selected by the Belgian photographer.

'Washington Square' by Dave HEATH shows deeply expressive, candid portraits of the young people who populated the square, as well as venturing into the 7 Arts Coffee Gallery with the infamous Beat poets. Ginsberg's poem Howl is included as an introduction

The images included in the photovolume 'Bright Black World' by Todd HIDO were taken in Northern Europe and Japan. Previously focused on North America, this is the first significant foray into photography outside of his home country for the photographer.

Out-of-print double photo volume on the work of German photographer Axel HÜTTE accompanied his exhibitions 'Night and Day', with works created between 1995 and 2017, and 'Frühwerk', which focused on his early work with photos taken between 1978 and 1995.

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.

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'

'Kriegsfibel' (War Primer) by Bertolt Brecht is THE anti-war book. It was first published a year before his death and a few times reissued. This edition was published by his daughter, Barbara Brecht-Schall, in memory of book's creation in exile in Denmark

In out-of-print 'Down and Out in Moscow', Miron ZOWNIR documents the (over)life of homeless and desperate people in sometimes unbearable images. He thus illustrates the decline of the former USSR; an unsparing look at street life in the Russian capital.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 28 x 29 x 6,5 cm., 636 pp., highly color & b/w illustrated, text language: English. Steidl, 2015.

This self published photo book, 'Human' by Gábor KUDÁSZ, shows brick-making workers, photographed between 2014-2016 in Eastern Europe. But the workers, depicted as in a socialist picture book, behave in an unusual way. They begin to alienate their product

Out-of-print English reissue of 'The Decisive Moment' by Henri CARTIER-BRESSON as meticulous facsimile of the original. It comes with an additional booklet containing an essay on the history of the famous volume by Centre Pompidou curator Clément Chéroux.

Held back for 30 years, ambitious photo book 'Whatever You Say, Say Nothing' by Magnum photographer Gilles PERESS takes the language of documentary photography to the extreme and then asks the reader to pause and solve the riddle of meaning for themselves

'Polaroid SX-70' is a facsimile that was compiled by William EGGLESTON himself and contains the only photos he has ever taken with this medium. It consists of 56 Polaroid shots - made between 1972 and 1981 - assembled by hand in a black leather album.

Three-photo-volume-set 'The Outlands' by William EGGLESTON are drawn from the photos he made on color transparency film from 1969 to 1974 that formed the basis for 'Chromes' and for the seminal exhibition at the MoMA in 1976 curated by John Szarkowski.

'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.

‘Siberian Exiles. Lithuania’ by Claudia HEINERMANN, is a journey through history and a story about oppression, abuse of power and crimes against humanity. It is also a story about a people who refused to be broken and to give up their identity and culture

With the photo book 'La Cucaracha', the South African photographer Pieter HUGO has once again succeeded in creating an impressive social portrait in which he was more interested in the people of Mexico than in the country's architecture or economy.

Photo volume 'Sleeping by the Mississippi' by Alec SOTH is the result of a series of road trips along the Mississippi River. He captures America's often neglected 'third coast'. The color photographs show an eclectic mix of people, landscapes & interiors.

'Chroma' contains a photo series that originated in the early 1980s when John DIVOLA was looking for more stable material, such as the artificial, industrial cibachrome - very flawed for conventional images, but with properties that produced these images.

The SIGNED photo volume set 'The Citadel' by Mame-Diarra NIANG is the story of an inner journey: the volumes 'Metropolis', 'At the Wall' and 'Sahel Gris' show a personal, analytical relationship with place, without city names or geographical coordinates.

This photo volume 'Standing by the Wall - Berlin 1990' by Josef Wolfgang MAYER is designed in triptychs and consists exclusively of fold-out pages that expand the individual picture into a panorama. This suddenly makes the past time present again.

The out of print photo book 'Veramente' includes Italian photographer Guido GUIDI's entire oeuvre from 1959 to 2014. The pioneer of new Italian landscape photography was influenced by architectural history, neo-realistic Italian film and conceptual art.

For this artist edition of 'Neue Welt', Wolfgang TILLMANS has selected 72 images and re-contextualized them on large, 24 folded printed sheets. Each is a separate object with a front, center fold and back. And some new photos are not included in the book.

From a distance we can see Luis Alberto RODRIGUEZ' 'People of the Mud' as a collective community portrait of all the different elements that construct modern, rural Irish identities. It gathers all the ruptures & continuities between the past and present.

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.

A faithful faksimile of the artist book 'Snowflakes Dog Man' by Hajime KIMURA. Three offset printed volumes in a black screen printed and handmade cardboard. The dreamy softness and delicacy of the images is intoxicating and disturbing at the same time.

The 'Protest Box' compiled by British photographer as well as photo book expert Martin Parr contains five facsimile editions of out-of-print photo volumes by Enrique BOSTELMANN, Paolo GASPARINI, Dirk ALVERMANN, Kauz KITAI and Paolo MATIOLI & Anna CANDIANI

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.

In 'Surf Tribe' Stephan VANFLETEREN shows that surf culture encompasses much more than just sport and competition: the feeling of nullity regarding the forces of nature. Surfers use the waves for the fun, but also to forget and to fight with himself.

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

In his out-of-print photo volume, 'Impasse Hotel Syria', Krass CLEMENT does without any text, because the pictures leave no question unanswered. The very personal travel and photo book describes the recent past of the country in pictures taken since 2001

1st print run, HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 16 x 20,5, x 2,5 cm., 224 pp., color ills., text language: English

SIGNED COPY! The out-of-print photo book 'Lebensmittel' (Food) by Michael SCHMIDT documents the industrialization in food production. The volume consisting of B/W & color photographs was the last publication on which he still worked until its completion.

Boxed set of 27 picture cards, 20 x 20 x 5 cm. with booklet, b/w ills., text language: English

English ed., linen bound HC with screen printing, 24,5 x 31 cm., 496 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

'A New American Picture' by Doug RICKARD contains color photographs of machine-generated images. He defines his own image section - in this way detaches them from the context of their automated origin to create snapshots of urban & rural decay in the U.S.

'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.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 23,5 x 31 x 3 cm., 240 pp., 400 four-colour & duotone ills., text language: English. Aperture, 2009.

Strictly limited to 130 cps., 'Panopticon' by Riccardo DOGANA is a reflection of media content. Using selected topics from the last decade - emigration, climate change, wars, organized crime, terrorism - the truthfulness of the WorldWideWeb is questioned.

HC with acetate jacket, 28 x 23 x 2 cm., 108 pp., 54 color ills., text language: English

In his out-of-print photo volume 'Archaeology in Reverse', Stephen GILL focused on evidence of the rapid change that East London was undergoing in preparation for the 2012 Olympics. With a cheap camera he made very poetic documentary photographs.

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 31 x 31 x 4 cm., 312 pp., 200 b/w ills., 2,900 gr., Dutch