40s

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 16 × 22 cm., 224 p., more than 140 color ills., English

The 'Picture Book' by Hannah HÖCH contains adventures of mythical creatures in a zoological garden surrounded by flowers and plants. It is a children's book AND an cultural-historical document designed according to the Dadaist principle of photomontage.

The book 'Magic Eye' offers an overview of the work of René GROEBLI. We discover his fascination for movement and speed. And we encounter the rich hues of his unique, innovative color photography, through which even commissioned works become timeless art.

Robert CAPA is considered to be the founder of photojournalism. His impressive photos of the Spanish Civil War made the passionate opponent of war world over night famous. In addition to most famous works, this portfolio also presents rediscovered images.

This book, 'Fotogeschichten Sülz und Klettenberg. 1855-1985', shows the neighborhoods from the end of 19th century to 1980 and the people who lived and worked here. Images, texts & commentaries make this contribution to Cologne's urban history so valuable

For nearly two decades, Harry CALLAHAN photographed his wife in countless ways: nude & clothed, on the beach, in the woods, in public parks & on city streets, and in the privacy of the family home. 'Eleanor' is the definitive publication of these photos.

This 13-volumes collection on the work of Swiss photographer Jakob TUGGENER, 'Books and Films' contains facsimile editions of the first twelve original book dummies from the years 1936 to 1982 as well as a selection of his 16 mm short films on DVD.

This anthology contains 160 pictures by ninety female photographers to answer the question of whether there is a 'female gaze' in photography. The focus is on the four major subject areas of social reality, family, female body and virtual reality.

Gebundene Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 17 x 24 x 2,5 cm., 300 S., 20 Farb- u. 200 SW-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

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

This out-of-print photo volume 'Menschen ohne Maske. Photographien 1906 - 1952' by German photographer August SANDER in paperback format is a re-issue of a 1971 publication, released at Swiss Bucher Verlag.

'Mauvais genre' presents views of men and women at the intersection of private life, the history of homosexuality, and feminist activism. Christine Bard and Isabelle Bonnet shed light on this often-silenced aspect through photos from Lifshitz collection.

'Cologne and its photo books. Cologne in the photo book from 1853 to 2010 'by Werner Schäfke shows the city as a large puzzle. Whether published in-house, on behalf of the city or industry, they document the diversity of this old & young Rhine metropolis.

Volume #11 in the book series on legedary & rare photo volumes, 'Alexey BRODOVITCH. Ballet', reproduces each dynamic double-page spread from this rarely seen volume along with a contemporary essay by leading BRODOVITCH connoisseur Kerry William Purcell.

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

'Henry Rox Revue' edited by Wolfgang Vollmer could also be a children's book. Artistic feats as well as bizarre everyday occurrences are depicted here with the help of fruits and vegetables, which the photographer has arranged in imaginative arrangements.

The out-of-print photo book 'Die Poesie der Form' (The Poetry of Form) contains around 75 b/w images by Imogen CUNNINGHAM, neither strictly chronologically nor thematically organized: Bodies, plants, still lifes and portraits, including with August SANDER

The out-of-print photographic book 'From Craft to Art' contains some 100 original prints by Robert DOISNEAU, as well as a new version of anessay, which explores the ability to capture 'the luminous melancholy that separates the individual from the mass'.

by Colin Westerbeck (ed.). HC with dust jacket, 29 x 29 x 2 cm., 120 pp., 100 b/w & color ills., text language: English

Linen bound HC with dust jacket, 29 x 33 x 3 cm., 344 pp., b/w ills., trilingual text: English / German / French

Out-of-print monograph on William Eugene SMITH shows images from six series: 'Country Doctor', 'Spanish Village', 'Nurse Midwife', 'A Man of Mercy', 'Minamata', as well as 'Pittsburgh'. It contains texts by himself about his working methods and principles

This monograph on Magnum agency co-founder Henri CARTIER-BRESSON is about the decisive moment, humility and humanity in his work. The images reproduced in black and white range from the earliest works to landscape photographs from the 1970s.

The out-of-print photo book 'Mein Paris' with photographs by Robert DOISNEAU is a book about Paris. 600 images are arranged like walks through the city and time: along the Seine, around the Eiffel Tower, through the gardens and parks, and into the suburbs

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 so far only monograph on Sid GROSSMAN, a comprehensive survey of his life and work, includes early social documentary work (1930s), more personal and dynamic street photography (1940s), and late experiments with abstraction in b/w and in color.

This out-of-print photographic volume 'London 1949' by René GROEBLI is the result of a two-week-staying in the bombed-out capital with his rolleiflex camera. The 2nd part of the book contains a series of images shot at London's Crystal Palace Park in 1951

Out-of-print 'A World in Ruins. Vienna 1945-1948' by Ernst HAAS tells history as a psychic collage. The images of the deep depression in the rubble of bombed-out history contrast with the optimistic awakening. A little-documented part of Austria's history

German-Dutch photographer Germaine KRULL is one of the discoverers of modernity. For a long time, her works were hardly accessible because they were scattered in individual archives. The out-of-print catalog with over 150 vintage prints closes this gap.

'Der Blick auf zwei Welten' by Robert HAAS contains touching everyday and social studies of interwar Vienna as well as fascinating shots of the American way of life with sensitive portraits of great personalities and 'Street photography' from New York.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued) 23 x 28 x 2,5 cm., 128 pp., 14 color & 96 duotone b/w ills., text language: English

Jacques Henri LARTIGUE is best known for his b/w photographs. The out-of-print photo volume 'Das Leben ist bunt' (Life is Colorful), with its profound evaluations of his diaries and albums why it was long overdue to discover his color photographs as well.

'Das Positiv' shows the concept of visualization, in which photographers imagine the final image in all its tonal gradation even before taking the picture. Ansel ADAMS points out all the possibilities that make the work on the positive a creative process.

HC, 26 x 28 cm., 200 pp.

'Looking at Ansel Adams' is an immersive study that explores his life as an artist by illuminating the stories behind twenty of his most significant images. Lesser-known but equally important photographs provide unexpected insights into his personal life.

'The Making of an Argument' contains the 1st project by Gordon PARKS for the 'Life' magazine. Featuring contact sheets, proof prints and the published article, it traces the editorial process and parses out the motives behind the production of the essay.

For 'Floridas' Anastasia SAMOYLOVA photographed the sunshine state on intensive road trips. Black-and-white photographs by Walker EVANS from the 1930s to the 1970s are presented parallel to the contemporary color photos, thus interweaving past and present

The monograph 'Small Biography' features photographs by Shoji UEDA from the 1930s to the 1990s, originally published in Camera Mainichi magazine between 1974 and 1985. The limited edition of 1000 copies was numbered with an ink stamp on the colophon page.

by Thomas Seelig & Urs Stahel (eds.) Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 25 x 30,5 x 5cm., 400 S., reich bebildert,deutsch-sprachiger Text - here: GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

Art historian Ian Jeffrey has sifted through WWII soldier albums and selected the most compelling photos to create a record of lives that have seen the unprecedented. Style & content of the photographs changed along with the collective mood after 1942.

This out-of-print photographic volume, 'Original Disfarmer Photographs', presented at ist publishing for the first time the vintage prints of the US-american photographer Mike DISFARMER, one of the greatest portrait photographers of the young 20th century

This out-of-print monograph 'Aus dem fotografischen Werk 1938-2004' on the work of Robert HÄUSSER contains countless b/w images, which have been assigned in chronological order to chapters by various well-known authors (the texts are written in German!).

Out-of-print book 'The Essential Cecil Beaton. Photographien 1920-1970' provides insight into the sheer inexhaustible creativity of this multi-talented photographer through outstanding pictorial examples and with personal statements by him on photography.

Presenting earliest work by Edward WESTON from a discovered family album, 'Portrait of the Young Man as an Artist' compares his first artistic efforts with his masterworks to show persistence & evolution of his vision to find essential form with intensity

The narrow band 'summer days. Peace Days' contains a selection from films that Robert CAPA exposed on his last visits to Berlin in the summer of 1945. New prints made from the original negatives in 1986 were used as a model for reproduction.

This out-of-print photo volume, '40 let fotoreportérem', offers a comprehensive overview of the work of Emil FAFEK. Starting with photos from the Second World War and the Liberation, through the Reconstruction to the Czech politics of the 1950s to 1980s.

The photo book 'Cinemas' brings together for the first time a film of cinemas that were newly created by Hugo SCHMÖLZ and his son Karl Hugo SCHMÖLZ between 1935 and 1957, especially in the Rhineland and the Ruhr area.

'Der Westerwald im Spiegel der Zeit' gives an insight into August SANDER's work in his home area in around fifty photographs. Here, motifs from his work 'People of the 20th Century' are combined with photos that he had filed under the name 'Bauernarchiv'

Out-of-print 'Werner Bischof. Pictures' presents the work, which is in the area of tension between art and reportage and was created in a short time because of the early death of the photographer. It also contains the color photographs he took in the USA.

Tony VACCARO'S visual diary a young GI from and after World War II. The photos in black and white of the later fashion photographer - e.g. the famous image of the dead soldier covered with snow - are combined with the war experiences described by himself.

In addition to the famous photos by war photographer Robert CAPA, this catalog volume 'Retrospective' shows some unpublished photos such as those from the Tour de France, 1939. Numerous artist portraits round off the picture of a surprisingly diverse work

In addition to works selected by Eva BESNYÖ herself, the out-of-print volume contains previously never shown works with motifs from Budapest, Berlin, Brussels, Paris, Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Milan with attention to light, shadow, cropping and line play.

This monograph makes the best of Lee MILLER's work accessible, including surrealist compositions & travel photos. At the end of the Second World War she was a war correspondent in Europe and documented the liberated Dachau & Buchenwald concentration camps

This out-of-print new edition of the 1965 monograph 'The Flame of Recognition' about American photographer Edward WESTON contains a cross-section of his work, with portraits and nature photographs as well as texts from his diaries and letters.

The out-of-print book 'Das Auge des Krieges' by Dieter KELLER follows a seemingly modern pictorial aesthetic, showing that the artistically trained photographer of the Bauhaus period knew how to use aesthetic perception as a key to processing reality.

Gebundene Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 21,5 x 26,5 x 2,5 cm., 1,000 gr., deutsch-sprachiger Text - TEXT ONLY IN GERMAN!

In German language 'Hinter der Kamera', Juliet Hacking portrays 38 of the most important personalities in the history of photography. By working out contexts, the portraits add to an overview of great innovations, trends and developments in photography.

This volume, 'Gerda Taro. The Inventing des Robert Capa' by Jane Rogoyska, traces the life of Gerda TARO and reveals the depth of her relationship with Robert CAPA. Charismatic & very special they embodied one of the most turbulent periods of the century.

This second print run of the catalog volume on the work of reportage photographer Martin MUNKACSI, who shaped the beginnings of modern photojournalism, shows works from all phases as well as pictures that have not been seen since their first publication.

Out-of-print five-books collection 'Collected Works' on Gordon PARKS is the most comprehensive publication on the most influential African-American photographer, who combined a documentary and artistic style with a profound commitment to social justice.

The out-of-print volume 'Nein, Onkel: Snapshots From Another Front 1938-1945' contains snapshots of fun-loving, sexually inappropriate and work-shy elements of the German military machine, as well as the commonly accepted view of 'bad men in ankle boots'.

The German-language text volume 'About my artists' contains speeches, lectures, texts about German and international photographers, artists, friends, books and works on the 75th birthday of the publisher's founder and director Lothar Schirmer.

'125th Street. Photography In Harlem' reflects the history of New York's Harlem neighborhood, marked by consumerism, gentrification, glamour as well as political revolt. With images by Berenice ABBOTT, Dawoud BEY, Katsu NAITO, Gordon PARKS, Jamel SHABAZZ.

Open binded HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 16,5 x 24 x 2,5 cm., bilingual: English / Japanese, Ltd. to 500 numbered copies

The out-of-print photographic volume 'A Letter from Japan.' with its black-and-white photographs by U.S. wartime photographer John SWOPE, include shots taken mostly in war-torn Japan in 1945, contrasting with his work as a Hollywood photographer.

by Nina Kloepper (ed.) With photo works by Karl BLOSSFELDT, Alfred EHRHARDT, Bernd und Hilla BECHER, Hiroshi SUGIMOTO and Claudia FÄHRENKEMPER

Selected as one of the Photo-Eye Best Photobooks of 2013, this special designed selection of full-length portraits, made in Chinese photo studios between the 1930s and the 1980s, reveals fragments of the history of Chinese society and ideology.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 29,5 x 24 x 2,5 cm., 176 pp., text language: German - GERMAN TEXT ONLY! Kerber Verlag, 2013.

SC (no dust jacket, as issued), 224 p., 20,5 x 30 x 2 cm., 109 b/w ills., French only

A terrific introduction to the work of Lisette MODEL, one of the most important photographers of the 20th century - original format reissue. With 50 of her best images: rich idlers in the Southern France & sad, funny, often eccentric residents of New York

by Verna Posever Curtis, HC, 25 x 30,5 cm., 288 pp., 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 out-of-print volume 'Werner Bischof. Leben und Werk' was published on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the death of the Swiss photographer, one of the most famous reportage photographers of the 20th century and member of Magnum photo agency.

'Photobooks: Spain 1905-1997' documents and illustrate 30 titles; in his text, Horacio Fernández informs an overview of several hundred other titles. A new chapter in the history of photography written in recent years by the rediscovery of the photobook.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued),

This out-of-print photographic volume 'Unknown Halsman' reveals the playful, whimsical side of French Magnum photographer Philippe HALSMAN. It captures not only his character, but also the essence of the time. The monograph is colorful & vividly designed.

For out-of-print book 'Ball nights 1934-1950', Jakob TUGGENER immersed himself in the world of luxury. He captured fleeting moments & details, facial expressions & gestures, which he condensed into cinematographically perceived image series & book layouts

This out-of-print photographic volume is a collection of the work of the US-American photographer Paul OUTERBRIDGE. It covers the famous compositions of the early worksto the revolutionary nudes and still lives made using the carbro-colour process.

American photographer Lee MILLER was one of the few women to be accredited as war correspondents in the 1940s. 'Krieg. Mit den Alliierten in Europa' (with the Allies in Europe) contains for the first time all of her war reports & many of her famous photos

The out-of-print book 'Becoming Disfarmer' covers the history of the portrait work by Mike DISFARMER and its transformation into art. The monograph includes a selection of enlargements of his negatives from the 1970s, through which his work became known.

The b/w photographs in 'Fotografien 1934-1960' are more closely related to caricature than to reportage. Lisette MODEL has created icons of photography that have influenced generations of this profession, like Larry FINK, Diane ARBUS as well as Nan GOLDIN

This monograph traces the career of Walker EVANS on the basis of more than 300 images - from the first photos from the late 1920s to the Polaroids of the 70s. It also shows documents from his own collection, which give the reader a more thorough insight.

'Annelise Kretschmer. Photographien 1922-1975' shows her special sensorium for the depiction of men & women. Her portraits of children were distinguished from other examples of this genre in the history of German photography by a great deal of sensitivity

Softcover, square catalog volume, published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Wols Photograph 31/1-11/3 1979' at Museum Ludwig, Cologne. The German-language catalog text is by Lazlo Glozer.

The out-of-print catalog illuminates more than 60 years of French photographer Willy RONIS' long career and covers all thematic aspects of his work. Shown is a sharp & sensitive observer of everyday French life, a great humanist & chronicler of a century.

With photo works by Walker EVANS, Theodor JUNG, Dorothea LANGE, Carl MYDANS, Russell LEE, Ben SHAHN, Jack DELANO, Marion Post WOLCOTT, John VACHON, Gordon PARKS and many more

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.

SC (no dust jacket, as issued) in japanese folding, 20 x 30 cm., 80 pp., color ills., English

'Pittsburgh Grease Plant 1944/46' contains previously unpublished photographs by Gordon PARKS, focusing for the first time on his work for the Standard Oil Company, an important chapter before his groundbreaking career as a photographer for Life Magazine.

HC with dust jacket, 18,5 x 24 x 2,5 cm. (9,5 x 7 in.), 172 pp, 105 b/w duotone ills., text language: English

'Erna Helena Ania' by Tomasz LACZNY, tells a breathtaking, thoughts provoking story of a mother's love for her daughter, inscribed in the history of the World War II's end and its aftermath, told by a grandson, in whose life its elements sound echo like.

The out-of-print 'Zeitblende' was published on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the famous photo agency Magnum. The picture & text book provides an overview of the impressive field of reportage photography that is commensurate with its significance

Pb. with dust jacket, 24,5 x 29,5 x 2,5 cm. (10 x 11,5 x 1 in.), 288 pp., 218 b/w & color ills., 1,600 gr., text language: English