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The book 'The Rest is History' is a commentary on the British Brexit decision in 2020. Alejandro ACÍN questions the construction of history through theatrically staged photos taken in London during the last 24 hours of British-European political relations

With reportages from Albania, Italy, Poland, Spain & UK, Dirk ALVERMANN reminds in 'Streiflichter 1956-65' of the richness and diversity of European culture and history. Like fairy tales from ancient times, the b/w images tell of Europe's political roots.

Der Band 'Blue Prints', ist eine Hommage an eine Pionierin der Fotografie und eine große britische Künstlerin, Anna ATKINS, die 1843 den ersten Fotoband der Geschichte schuf. Er enthält eine Auswahl der schönsten Cyanotypien sowie Texte von Rolf Sachsse.

The volume 'Cyanotpes' presents for the first time in their entirety the album 'British Algae' by Anna ATKINS and 'Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns', showing her pioneering technique of photographically documenting botanical species around 1850.

Out-of-print volume 'Missing Buildings' by Thom & Beth ATKINSON is the result of a project on buildings in London destroyed or damaged by bombing between 1940 and 1945. From the enigmatic gap to the mismatched post-war housing estate in the city center.

Out-of-print volume 'Birth of the Cool' by Daid BAILEY traces his life & work in the years from 1957-1969: his beginnings and contains photographs from London's East End, as well as previously rarely shown private & documentary footage from his archive.

'East End' consists of three hardcover books housed in a slipcase. Together the three volumes contain 620 photographs of the East End of London, each volume a collection of images taken by David BAILEY during a different decade, from the 60s up until now.

In 'Road to Barking' David BAILEY documents the borough of Barking & Dagenham in London's East End and its inhabitants: musicians, flower sellers & butchers, passengers on the Underground, policemen & punks and abandoned boats on the banks of the Thames.

'Shirley BAKER' presents a uniquely female portrayal of life from the 1950s to 2000. Edited by Lou Stoppard it features better known photographs from Manchester, Salford & Blackpool combined with previously unseen material from UK, France, Italy & Japan.

The catalog 'Accra/London. A Retrospective' is dedicated to the body of work produced to date by Ghanaian photographer James BARNOR, tracing his photographic practice over six decades: both the work in his homeland and his work, from London in the 1960s.

The Anti-War book 'Kriegsfibel' (War primer) by Bertolt Brecht and Ruth Berlau processes press photos from the Second World War. Images of machines and gruesome scenes were given new captions, socialist-realist epigrams to give the scenes a primal meaning

In his book trilogy consisting of 'A1. The Great North Road', 'Beyond Caring' as well as 'Troubled Land' - Paul GRAHAM documents life in the United Kingdom during the 1980s. This series established and him as an important voice in contemporary photography

'Belfast Diary' by Peter BIALOBRZESKI documents a city that has suffered considerably from the violence associated with the Ireland's division. The photographs were taken in 2017, before the Brexit and the feared consequences for the fragile peace process

'Give my regards to Elizabeth' is Peter BIALOBRZESKI's first photo book - clearly influenced by British color photography of the 1980s. Now, 27 years after the hand-made copies, the Trade Edition followed as facsimile in the original layout.

The out-of-print photobgraphic volume 'Landscapes 2001-2003' by British photographer Richard BILLINGHAM brought together his landscape photographs for the first time. The color photographs are introduced by Sacha Craddock, an art critic and broadcaster.

The new edition, its 'director's cut', of the out-of-print photo book 'Ray's a Laugh' by Richard BILLINGHAM recreates the original vision of his deeply personal work with numerous previously unpublished images and a particular approach to sequencing.

The out-of-print volume 'Standpunkt' shows the life & work of Werner BISCHOF from a new perspective: with his own words as well as previously unpublished photos, drawings, letters & diary entries, he tells of his life story, photographic credo and travels

In out-of-print 'Blow-Up. Antonioni's Film Classics and Photography,' the masterpiece is examined in terms of photographic and art historical positions as well as the genres represented, such as social reportage, fashion photography, pop art & abstraction

The out-of-print photographic volume 'Fallen Empire' by Italian photographers Alex BOCCHETTO & Valentina ABENAVOLI is the result of over two years of documenting the ever-changing cityscape of London's East End on the eve of the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Out-of-print volume 'Books on Books #4 - Chris Killip. In Flagrante' presents the work as book with all pages of the original book - often cited as the most important photo book to come from England in the 1980s - in sheets and a new essay by Gerry BADGER

Out-of-print 'Moments in History' focuses on those works Margaret BOURKE-WHITE made in the 1930s and 40s in Czechia, Germany, Italy, the Soviet Union as well as in the UK. It shows photographs and excerpts from letters as well as publications in magazines

This out-of-print catalog volume shows how Bill BRANDT - a German-British key figure in 20th century photography - was fascinated by the strange and dark aspects of life, from his earliest photographs from the 1930s to his late portraits and body studies.

'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

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 20,5 x 23 x 3,5 cm., 416 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

Giacomo BRUNELLI's debut volume 'The Animals' was first released in 2008; the new edition offered here contains eight additional recordings. The focus is on animals 'in freedom', that is: the domesticated 'friends of man'.

Second edition. The photo book 'Eternal London' by Giacomo BRUNELLI contains black and white photographs of London at night, in which the Italian photographer seems to follow passers-by at every turn to pass the sights of the city to document them.

The photo volume 'LDN2', the trade edition of original artists's book by Antony CAIRNS presents a nocturnal expedition through the metropolis of London at night: oblique landscapes that flicker by like reflections in the windows of a moving train or car.

HC, 30,5 x 25 cm., 144 pp., 64 color ills., English

The photographic volume 'The Nuclear Sublime' by Michael COLLINS is about an operating British nuclear reactor. The color images inside document the contrast between the scientific efforts and the reality of the sometimes dusty, worn & outdated equipment.

HC with dust jacket, 27 x 23,5 x 2 cm., 192 pp., 120 duotone b/w ills., text language: English

HC with dust jacket, 40 x 28 x 2 cm., 112 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

The out-of-print volume 'A Maverick Eye. The Street Photography of John Deakin' contains b/w photographs taken on the streets of London, Paris and Rome in the 1950s and 1960s. They reveal a far broader spectrum than that for which he was previously known.

Out-of-print book 'Photographs' by Götz DIERGARTEN shows German facades, French beach cabins and British seaside resort architecture. Conceptually strictly based on the Becher school, but the images of colorful beach huts radiate originality & uniqueness.

In 'Elliott Erwitt's Scotland' the culture & national heritage of the country is conveyed far beyond the typical glens & lochs. Beyond the purely picturesque, the images by the magnum photographer show diverse landscapes & characters that exist only there

Photo and text volume, 'A Promsed Land', by Wendy EWALD is a moving document. The migrant children of various origins living in Margate, a run-down British seaside resort, talk about their arrival, their fears and their everyday lives.

'Facing Britain', contains the most comprehensive show of work to date on British documentary photography, which is famous for its socio-political themes such as unemployment, migration, racism, consumer society, gender justice and warlike conflicts.

The out-of-print 'Tory, Island Images' by Martine FRANCK deals with a rock in the Atlantic Ocean, nine miles north of the Irish coast, populated by 130 Irish-speaking inhabitants. A documentary about an isolated, close-knit community, a unique microcosm.

'London/Wales' by Robert FRANK combines two series of images whose contrast could not be stronger. With these photographs, he tells the timeless story of a society in transition. They are early testimonies to his search for new forms of poetic photography

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 28,5 x 28,5 cm., 88 pp., 47 color ills., text language: English

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

Self published photo book 'Last stop' by George GEORGIOU is designed as a fanfold, housed in a slipcase. The color photographs were taken from the top decks of buses traveling throughout London, making the subjects and people photographed 'from above'.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 22,5 x 33,5 2 cm., 104 pp., 76 b/w 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.

This photo volume, 'Coming up for Air: Stephen Gill – A Retrospective', accompanied the exhibition about his 40-years-work including work from his classic long out of print books 'Hackney Wick', 'Hackney Flowers', 'Coexistence' and so much more.

HC with dust jacket, 18 x 22,5 x 2 cm., 240 pp., highly illustrated, text language: English

Clothbound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21,5 x 21,5 x 2 cm., 126 pp., 116 color ills., 24 pp. special section with paintings by Laure Prouvost

Cloth bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 26 x 20,5 x 1,5 cm., 52 pp., 29 color ills., text language: English

Silk screened & foil blocking covered HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 25 x 25 x 1,5 cm., 72 pp., 34 color ills., English, Special ed. ltd. to 100 copies!

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 20,5 x 25,5 x 2 cm., 104 pp., color ills., text language: English

The nearly 40 year old color film material for the classic photo book 'A1 - The Great North Road' by Paul GRAHAM is a photo-historical document of the 1980s' Great Britain - Margaret Thatcher's reign and the declining industrial base.

Mortality and the slow dissolution of late age are the main theme in the photo book 'Mother' as well as another aspect: If we fluctuate between life and death, the roles of child and parent become observers, the created becomes the creator.

The photographic volume 'Cinéma / On set', considers the film stills ofAustrian Magnum photographer Ernst HAAS, one of the most accomplished photographers of the 20th century, transgressing the borders between still photography and the moving image.

HC with dust jacket, 29,5 x 29,5 x 1 cm., 72 pp., 34 duotone b/w ills., text language: English

'We Have No Place to Be: 1980-1982' (Liverpool, London, Nuremberg, West Berlin, New York and Tokyo) - here in a newly edited and expanded edition - by Joji HASHIGUCHI remains widely regarded as one of his seminal early works alongside his debut 'Shisen'.

'The British Isles' by Jamie HAWKESWORTH documents over 13 years of life in the United Kingdom. The photographs paint an alternative history of this turbulent period in British history, a period marked by austerity, referendums, celebrations and conflict.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 27 x 21 x 1,5 cm., approx. 100 pp., 68 color, ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 1,000 copies

In the photo book 'The Way Home', British photographer Tom HUNTER tells stories from the London/Hackney between 1990 & 2011. Among the series featured are 'Travellers', 'Persons Unknown', 'Life and Death in Hackney' and 'Living in Hell and Other stories'.

This monograph on British photographer Tom Hunter brings together three bodies of work, 'Persons Unknown,' 'Travellers' & 'Life and Death in Hackney,' as well as the 'Swan Songs' series. Texts are by Michael Bracewell, Paul Shepheard, and Jean Wainwright.

The volume 'Theorea' by Axel HÜTTE contains works from 1994 to 1996, showing industrial areas on the outskirts of the city, company premises in the green and Tuscan cultural landscape, seen through the concrete pillars of a utility building - no people.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 17 x 24,5 x 1 cm., 40 pp., 40 color ills., text language: English

Out-of-print book 'Michael Kenna. 1976-1986' contains nature, landscape and architecture photographs as well as urban scenes and power stations. His reduced formal language is already evident in the b/w images taken in the UK, Scotland, Ireland and Italy.

The photo volume 'Coal not Dole' by Michael KERSTGENS documents the miners' strike of 1984/85, the last major industrial action in Great Britain and how this process - the end of an industrial era - intervened in the biographies of many people.

The out-of-print book 'Chris Killip. Arbeit/Work. Fotografien von 1969-2005' contains documentation of long-term projects from UK from the 1970s and 1980s as well as early portraits and also includes his projects created in Ireland and on the Isle of Man.

This new edition, entitled 'In Flagrante Two', is a radically updated presentation of the images taken by Chris KILLIP in northern England between 1973 and 1985 - first published in 1988 - with a single image on the right side of each double-page spread.

Zine (no dust jacket as issued), 14 x 20 x 0,5 cm., 24 pp., b/w ills., digital printing, English. Ltd. to 500 copies

In his photographic volume 'Seacoal' British photographer Chris KILLIP records life, work as well as the struggle for survival on a beach in the northeast of England in the early 1980s. Some shots were also part of his legendary book 'In Flagrante'.

The book 'Skinningrove' by Chris KILLIP contains photographs he took between 1982 and 1984 in the village of the same name on the northeast coast of England, perhaps his most intimate and comprehensive - of the community he photographed and of himself.

This book, 'The Station' by Chris KILLIP, documents an inclusive collective that offered refuge to young people threatened by unemployment in April 1985, shortly after the miners' strike. The British photographer was inspired by the spirit of the place.

The volume 'Byker revisited' is the result of a long-term project lasting over 40 years: the Finnish photographer Sirkka KONTTINEN returned again and again to the poor residential area of Newcastle, where she herself lived in the late 1970s/early 1980s.

The powerful black-and-white images in out-of-print photographic volume 'London 1958-59' by Chilean Magnum photographer Sergio LARRAÍN present a vivid portrait of a coal-fired, smoke-filled London long gone.

Spanish edition. Chilean photographer Sergio LARRAIN stayed in London for a few months between 1958 and 1959. In the unique atmosphere between cold and humidity, he made the shadows of the city his own. At that time he also became member of Magnum Photos.

'Vagabond photographer' - here the edition in German language - is the first monograph about the Chilean Magnum photographer Sergio LARRAIN. It is divided into two main axes, Latin America and Europe, and also includes images from his book 'Valparaiso'.

Vol.1 of late 1970s book series 'Photo-Galerie. Die Bibliothek berühmter Photographern' (The Library of Famous Photographers) is dedicated to the work of Jacques-Henri LARTIGUE, whose early sports photographs represent the fascination of an era for speed.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 25 x 28 x 1,5 cm., 96 pp., color ills., text language: English

In this book, 'Citizens,' Christian LUTZ documents places, movements, people of right-wing populist character across Europe. Far from the usual polarized reporting, he finds a multi-layered photographic approach to give expression to a deep-seated despair

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 17 x 22 x 1,5 cm., 128 pp., 137 color ills., text language: English

Pb. (ni dust jacket, as issued), 17,5 x 25 x 1 cm., 144 pp., 83 color ills., text language: English

For 'Give me your Image' renowned Dutch photographer Bertien van MANEN traveled through Europe to document family photos and collect traces of war & oppression, of happiness & sadness. The result: a century of history in encounters of eyes, minds, hearts.

Out-of-print book 'A Field Guide to Snow and Ice' by Paula McCARTNEY contains 48 b/w & color plates printed with UV inks on uncoated paper. Leporello binding with multiple panel widths and stiff front & back covers. The spine is printed on synthetic paper

Updated edition of the catalog which accompanied an exhibition of Don McCULLIN, including his work since the mid-1950s. A long career as a conflict photographer, social documentary practice, travel assignments and his recent engagement with landscape.

'Early Sunday Morning' consists of over 90 largely unpublished pictures, which document the English city of Leeds in the 1970s and 80s in a rather intimate or end-time style. A little bit of atmosphere and mood taken from Edward Hopper and much MITCHELL.

Box set including 4 Publications, 14 x 20 cm., b/w ills., no text, Ltd. to 150 copies

German-language catalog 'Nature as Art. Landscape in the 19th Century in Painting and Photography' emphasizes significance and mutual influences between painting and photography in the perception of landscape in works by French, English & Italian artists.

HC (no dust jacket,as issued), 26 x 26 cm., 112 pp., color ills., text language: English

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 22 x 25,5 x 2,5 cm., color ills., text language: English

HC, 21 x 24,5 x 1,5 cm., 168 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

Cafe Lehmitz Photobook Libraries shall enable collectors as well as institutions to acquire out-of-print titles at a price that can be paid. This library, the Paul GRAHAM Photobook Library, contains currently 19 photo volumes - mainly signed copies.

Gilles PERESS' book of photographs, 'Annals of the North', explores the multi-layered conflict in Northern Ireland. It captures a broad spectrum of the conflict, is deeply personal, depressing as well as humorous, and also factual, political and literary.

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

The out-of-print 'Soho' by Anders PETERSEN documents the life of the London neighborhood in a typical manner. This part of his series 'City Diaries' is a testimony to the dynamics & diversity of the neighborhood and the people who frequent and live there.

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 30 x 25 x 2,5 cm., 144 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

In this photo volume, 'Bonkers! A Fortnight in London' by Bettina RHEIMS, the German fashion and advertising photographer indulges in the wild eccentricities of the British capital - a dim, surreal world of female self-expression and eroticism.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 37 x 30,5 x 2 cm., 56 pp., color ills., text language: English

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 30 x 24 x 1,5 cm., 84 pp., color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 800 copies

'Shining Lights: Black Women Photographers in 1980s-90s Britain' by Joy Gregory is the first critical anthology to bring together the work of black women photographers, providing an overview of a significant and overlooked chapter in photographic history.

In his photo volume 'Brighton Picture Hunt', Alec SOTH interweaves people, places as well as objects with headlines from the local press. The result is a captivating portrait of the British city. The interplay of text & image creates uncanny connections.