Africa

In out-of-print photo volume 'Matriarchs', Austrian photographer Maria HAAS focuses on the investigation of cultures in which women have a special status. She opens these cultures to the viewer and captures their beauty and vitality in sensitive portraits

'Living Apart' by Magnum member Ian BERRY includes work from the 1960s for Drum magazine as well as key moments from the 1990s during the collapse of apartheid: the rise of Mandela, reconciliation, & the alarming escalation of urban problems and violence.

With 'Across the Ravaged Land' the trilogy by Nick BRANDT about the disappearance of animals in East Africa is ending. In addition to powerful animal portraits, people appear for the first time; essays summarize his odyssey that spanned more than a decade

The out-of-print volume 'The Hasselblad Award 2006' presents works by South African photographer David GOLDBLATT from 2004 to 2006 that address the country's situation in the post-apartheid era, including a number of his new triptychs on folding panels.

'Post script' by Laura EL-TANTAWY, designed by Sybren KUIPER in accordeon format, contains previously unpublished images & written reflections in which she takes the reader behind the images and into the thoughts and emotions that led to their creation.

SC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 33 x 1 cm., 72 pp., approx. 30 color ills., English, Ltd. to 1,000 copies

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 19 x 25,5 cm., 184 pp., 100 b/w ills,, text language: English

HC with dust jacket, 28,5 x 36 x 4,5 cm., 336 pp., 40 color & 125 b/w ills., bilingual text: German / English

Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 29 x 26,5 cm., 255 S., S/W- und Farbaufnahmen, deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

The out-of-print photo and text volume 'Fotoreportagen 1956-1965' on the work of Dirk ALVERMANN contains in addition to the black and white photographs an excellent article on his photo books penned by the photo book connoisseur Thomas Wiegand.

The last part of an unintended trilogy on the lives of refugees and migrants. 'Rooted' returns to a phenomenon that was already noted in 'Ville de Calais': the many refugee camp residents who find hope, consolation and dignity in nurturing a few plants.

In the out-of-print monograph titled 'Chasing Shadows', Santu MOFOKENG, who documented the fight against apartheid and the living conditions of the South African population in his photographs, describes his approaches and approach in an interview.

'Omo Change' by Fausto PODAVINI deals on Omo River & The Gibe III dam which disrupts the balance of one of the most incredible areas in Africa in the name of development, by diverting a local resource for profit of local elites & international investors.

Actual print run, HC, 25 x 29 x 3,5 cm., 336 pp., text language: English

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.

In his photo book 'Tales from the City of Gold'Jason LARKIN shows life in out-of-place legacies of the former gold mines in South Africa. He documents as well as illuminates the stubbornly ignored reality of those places & their denied ecological legacies

In his photo volume, 'KIN', South African photographer Pieter HUGO explores instead on his family the failure of South African colonization and his sense of being 'colonial driftwood', reflecting on the nature of conflicting personal collective narratives

HC (no dust jacket, as issued),  21 x 25,5 cm., 160 pp., 119 color ills., bilingual texts: French / English

German edition. Sebastião SALGADO has created a world of images that show nature, animals and indigenous peoples in intense beauty. The volume 'Genesis' is the result of an epic 8-year expedition to regions where the planet has remained untouched before.

Re-edit, linen bound HC, 26 x 25 cm., 104 pp., 77 tritone b/w ills., text language: English

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.

Pb. with dust jacket (as poster), 21 x 27,5 x 3 cm., 320 pp., 1800 gr., text language: English

HC with dust jacket, 24 x 32 x 4 cm., 383 pp., color ills., text language: English

HC with dust jacket, 27 x 25 cm., 263 pp., b/w ills., English

In 'Intersections,' David GOLDBLATT explores the aftermath of apartheid in and outside Johannesburg. Made up entirely of color works, it reveals the contrasts that define South Africa while marking the beginning of an important new phase in his work.

HC, 24 x 29,5 cm., 104 pp., 80 color ills., text language: English

The special of the title 'The Bird Project' by Eril BERGLIN lies in its realization as a high-gloss book. The contrast between the natural, colorful plumage and the cold colors of the urban space in which the birds find themselves is particularly striking

An exploration the 'Rainbow Nation', over two decades. For South Africa, Democracy is a hard won freedom that brought both rewards & struggles. The wealth for a new black elite fostered a frenzied aspirational spirit amongst the poorer urban classes, too.

Dutch photographer Bastiaan WOUDT captured the local culture of Morocco with a monochrome look for this book. 'Bastiaan Woudt in Morocco' is the eighth part of a book series by the Van Vlissingen Art Foundation that supports talented Dutch photographers.

2nd print run. The photographer Tariq ZAIDI shows in 'Sapeurs. Ladies & Gentlemen of the Congo' the subcultural fashion in Kinshasa & Brazzaville. During the day cab drivers, tailors or gardeners - after work they become casually dressed, elegant dandies.

This compendium of South African photography, 'Figures & Fictions', offers a first overview of contemporary photography in this part of the African continent and brings together well-known photographers.

'Einheit, Arbeit, Wachsamkeit. The GDR in Mozambique' by Malte WANDEL is about African workers who lived in the GDR until German reunification. Many live in poverty, because the money withheld from their wages, intended for their pensions, has disappeared

In his haunting, fascinating photo essay about a dump in Ghana, South African photographer Pieter HUGO exposes the repressed downside of fast-moving consumption and tells of a community characterized by poverty and the will to survive of every individual.

Re-edit, linen bound HC with dust jacket, 28,5 x 28,5 cm, 180 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

'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.

The photo book 'Hyena Men', first published in 2007, made the South African photographer Pieter HUGO known outside the photo book scene. There is something disturbing about the images of wandering fairmen who entertain people with their animals.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 30,5 x 1,5 cm., 148 pp., color & b/w ills., bilingual texts: German / English

'Structures of Dominion and Democracy' reconstructs the history of some publications of series by David GOLDBLATT and illuminates his work in the context of South Africa's political, cultural history, as well as his contribution to photographic history.

The b/w images taken with a Leica by the Ivorian photographer Ananias Léki DAGO for the out-of-print book 'Shebeen Blues. The Wheel is still in Spin' are fed by lines; Bottles, billiard cues, excised body fragments, hands linger; Shadows deepen, stand out

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 20 x 27 cm., 72 pp., text language: English, Ltd. to 500 copies

Linen bound HC with tipped in image (no dust jacket, as issued), 16,5 x 24 cm., 144 pp., 62 color ills. & 5 info graphics, text language: English

Gebunden, mit Schutzumschlag, 22,5 x 30 cm., 360 S., 220 Abb., deutsch-sprachig - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

'African Studies' by Edward BURTYNSKY is about the overexploitation of the planet in Africa. The series 'China in Africa' with interiors of newly built gigantic production facilities show the disturbing reality of the far-reaching depletion of resources.

Wildlife photography of Tomasz GUDZOWATY in his 'Closer' is characterized by a technical & aesthetic sophistication. The book shows his keen observation of both general patterns & the smallest details bringing closer to the inner life & beauty of nature.

'Platinum' by Jason LARKIN and writer Jack Shenker explores the Marikana massacre and the physicality and context of South Africa's platinum industry. The photo volume breaks with the common rules: it combines large format posters with a concise essay.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21,5 x 31 x 1,5 cm., 112 pp., 50 color ills., bilingual text: English / fFench

SC, 25 x 32,5 cm., 168 pp.

In the photo book 'Ouarzazate', the name of a Moroccan city with famous film sets, the landscape photographer Mark RUWEDEL continues his interest in contemporary ruins far away from the American deserts, where he has been working for thirty years.

The out-of-print volume 'In the Shadow of the Pyramids' by Magnum photographer Laura EL-TANTAWY appears to be a general account of the hopes and setbacks associated with the Egyptian revolution.But through the texts it gains considerable personal depth.

In the photo volume 'Avenue Patrice Lumumba' the South African photographer Guy TILLIM deals with the urban architecture of colonial and post-colonial society in Africa. His focus is on their changes due to multiple shifts in power over the past 50 years.

The story is amusing, but only at first glance, because it is based on the fact that no one believes that Africa will ever reach the moon. Around fifty years later, Spanish photographer Cristina DE MIDDEL brought history back to light ...

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 37,5 x 25 x 1,5 cm., 64 pp., color ills., text language: English

Actual printrun, HC with dust jacket, 25 x 29 x 3,5 cm., 320 pp., richly color illustrated, text language: English

'Photographers References No.1' exposes the creative processes of South African photographer David GOLDBLATT. It provides insights into his practice by revealing personal references and influences that have helped shape his distinctive visual language.

HC (without dust jacket, as issued), 17 x 23,5 x 2 cm., 240 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

Linen bound HC, 29 x 33 cm., 256 pp., 95 ills., text language: English

The photographs in 'After Us the Flood' give the abstract processes and complex interrelationships of the climate crisis a visual form. The international works of the last ten years was often the result of intensive research & cooperation with scientists.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24,5 x 31 x 2,5 cm., 189 pp. + inner text with interviews, 93 b/w ills., text language: English

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 13 x 21 cm., 168 pp., 50 color ills., text language: English

Out-of-print photo volume 'South Africa. The Structure of Things Then' represents the culmination of photography, research and writing by David GOLDBLATT. His more than 30 years of experience lends a meaningful undertone to the carefully composed images.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24,5 x 28,5 x 1,5 cm., 120 pp., color ills., text language: English

The b/w photographs in 'It's too funky in here' dance like the photographed dancers, twinkle like the eyes of the portrayed youth. Malick SIDIBE is the catcher of joy. Omnipresent at decisive moments that really needed to be caught - the memory of Bamako.

As a continuation of the Old and the New Testaments of the Bible, this volume, 'The Last Testament' by Norwegian photographer Jonas BENDIKSEN, presents visual accounts and stories of seven men around the world who claim to be the Second Coming of Jesus'.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 25 x 30,5 x 2,5 cm., 216 pp.,color ills., text language: English

HC with dust jacket, 18,5 x 24 x 2,5 cm. (9,5 x 7 in.), 190 pp., 120 duotone b/w ills., text language: English

Silk screen covered HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 72 pp., 21,5 x 33 x 1,5 cm., color ills., English

The images in the volume 'Partuclars' by South African photographer David GOLDBLATT were taken beginning in 1975, but the first edition of the book was published in 2003. For this re-edit, he has revised the original version of the book.

HC, 24,5 x 19 cm., 96 pp. + 12 interview pp., 62 ills., Ltd. to 1,000 numb. copies, English

'Dark Atlas' by Perttu SAKSA, combines documentary images with still lifes and abstract photographs that locate the subject of energy as a structural element of our society. Oil and fuel become as tangible as the problems caused by dependence on them.

HC (without dust jacket, as issued), 25 x 31 cm., 96 pp., color ills., text language: English

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 20 x 26 x 1,5 cm., 105 pp., richly illustrated, text language: 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.

This volume presents the photographic work of the Spanish documentary photographer Cristina de MIDDEL, who became internationally known in 2012 for her self-published photo book 'The Afronauts' and is now a member of the Magnum photographers agency.

This out-of-print photo volume 'This empty world' by Nick BRANDT contains dramatically staged photographs that bring together and reveal animals and people in East Africa as victims of environmental destruction in an emotionally powerful, cinematic way.

Out-of-print volume 'In and Out of Fashion' by Viviane SASSEN presents the full range of her visual language: harsh contrasts in the play of light & shadow, bright colors & expressive poses - fashion photography as a work of art, designed by Sybren KUIPER

'Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea' on the work of Pieter HUGO contains 'Rwanda 2004', 'Looking aside', 'The Hyena Men...', 'Permanent Error', 'There's A Place in Hell For Me and My Friends', 'Nollywood', 'Kin', '1994' & 'Californian Wildflowers'.

Out-of-print photo book 'Aftermath' by Jörn VANHÖFEN captures rapidly changing places in a peculiarly poetic way: the Chicago Stock Exchange, Cape Town's townships, forest fires in Puglia, Detroit's abandoned factories and the scrap yard in the Ruhr area.

The winning title of the First Book Award 2017. 'Nothing's in Vain' is a journey through Dakar, a metropolis in constant change. It is the photographer's answer to the experience of being uprooted and disoriented in the vibrant Senegalese capital in 2011.

The 23 images by Harry CALLAHAN in his book 'Morocco', taken in 1981, are the product of his shift to a strictly chromatic palette and demonstrate his continued interest in the visual intrigue of the everyday urban landscape & the passersby who occupy it.

In 'Nsenene' Michele SIBILONI documents the self-image of Ugandans who stay awake night after night until dawn to catch locusts and sell them. Although this happens at the other end of the world, it is about the future perspective of our planet Earth.

3 x SC in slipcase, 20,5 x 28 x 6 cm., 580 pp.

HC with dust jacket,

Bold and striking are the photography, the Dutch photo artist Viviane SASSEN in the photo volume 'Parasomnia'. Her subject in this monograph a sleep disorder that causes strange feelings and dreams. Both editions are out of print.

'Life & Afterlife in Benin' opens a new chapter in the history of photography in Africa. Portraits of the photographers in Benin are marked by dark dramas and deep mysticisms; they show a people caught between a pre-colonial past & a post-colonial future.

In 'As Terras do Fim do Mundo', Jo RACTLIFFE traces the routes of the 'border war' that South Africa waged in Angola from the mid-1960s to the 80s. The focus is on the war zone itself and how past violencemanifests itself in the landscape of the present.

Clothbound hardcover delivered with a handmade wooden support. 48,5 x 33 cm., 56 pp., 55 tritone b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 750 copies

'Waiting' by Jason LARKIN is the result of an observation. This state of waiting is for him a visual echo of an intermediate state in which many inhabitants of South Africa find themselves. There is no reference to the purpose or the result of the waiting

HC with dust jacket, 20,5 x 30 x 2,5 cm., 412 pp., 354 color ills., text language: English

'My Mind's Eye' about Peter FINK shows his b/w photographs from Japan, France, Portugal, North Africa as well as the Middle East. Art, culture & social issues are his themes - along with portraits, fashion, surreal still lifes & architectural reflections.

The out-of-print photographic book 'Paul Strand: The World on my Doorstep' contains, in addition to his best pictures from his late years - 1950 to 9176 - an intimate biographical essay, as well as an essay by Ute Eskildsen on his portraits & landscapes.

'Congo Belge en Images' is the companion volume to Carl de KEYZER's own color photographs of present-day Congo. It features a selection of images of the Belgian colony from the Royal Museum of Central Africa, with shots from the time of King Leopold II.

Private photographs commissioned by urban black workers and middle-class families in South Africa between 1890 and 1950. MOFOKENG analyzes the self-image and the desire for social recognition of the black population in times of colonial oppression.

HC, 30 x 30 cm., 108 pp.

HC (cloth cover without dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 30 cm., approx. 160 pp., approx. 100 color ills., English

Housed in a silk-screened slipcase & spiral bound (japanese style), 76 folded pp., 24 x 33 cm. (9,44 x 13 in.), risograph printed b/w ills., Ltd. to 400 signed copies

The photo volume 'Photographs, Bamako, Mali 1948-1963', by Seydou KEITA draws from an expanded archive and offers over 400 mostly unpublished portraits from the photographer's heyday. His photos document Mali's people until shortly after its independence.