American photographer

Slipcased DVD (PAL,) approx. 75 min., English

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.

In this out-of-print photo volume, 'Performance' by Richard AVEDON, portraits of over 200 stars and artists of the performing arts of the second half of the 20th century are shown, many of them in photographs that had rarely or never been shown before.

Gebiundene Aiusgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 25 x 31 x 4 cm., 326 S., S/W- & Farb-Aufn., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY. Also available (for another price) in English or French.

US photographer Edward WESTON kept a diary in which he recorded his struggle to understand himself, society and his art. 'The Daybooks of Edward Weston' were edited by Nancy Newhall in two volumes: one for his time in Mexico and one for Californian time.

In 'Sea Stories', the photos by Robert ADAMS describe the cycles of nature with a new naturalism. It contents a sequence of three visual narratives: among alder and maple trees, along the beachand back through meadows and what remains of the inland forest

HC, 24,5 x 31 cm., 104 pp., 91 color ills., text language: English

From its title to its formal arrangement of language, 'Dein Kampf' suggests a commentary on our cyclical anxieties about ideology. Anxiety is implicit in his photographs and Berlin - a city in which several ideologies collided - is their natural backdrop.

'Family Car Trouble' plays with the form of the novel, both material and narrative, to illustrate the inner workings of the photographer. The recordings document arrival and departure as well as the maintenance of a difficult 1993 Volvo 940 station wagon.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 30 x 37 x 2 cm., 54 pp., duotone b/w ills., text language: English

In 1963, Ed RUSCHA photographed filling stations from Oklahoma to LA. He published them in 'Twentysix Gasoline Stations'. He took 60 photographs which he edited to 26. 7 unpublished images from New Mexico are reproduced here, from the original negatives.

SC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 32 x 2 cm., 128 pp., 50 color ills., English

This photo book, 'From Black and White to Color', contains some exceptional, as yet unpublished photographs and shows the development, breaks and above all the radicalism of William EGGLESTON when he started taking photographs in color in the late 1960s.

Slipcased HC with dust jacket, 30 x 38 x 2 cm. (12 x 15 in.), 48 pp., 28 four color & b/wills., text language: English, Ltd. to 350 copies

Richly illustrated compendium with many readable and interesting essays. The extensive field of amateur or commercial photography is examined: pictures that were created for bureaucracy, commerce & for personal commemoration - in contrast to artistic use.

'Krystyna's World', includes 37 color photographs by Todd HIDO, both published and previously unpublished material, from intimate photos to succinct large format images. The Khrystyna model can always be seen in the various scenes, hence the book title.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 28 x 1,5 cm., 96 pp., 110 color ills., bilingual text: German / English

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.

This photo volume set 'Seven Stories' by Robert FRANK is a collection of small volumes that represents a new stage in his practice. As always, his photographs and stories relate to life and milieu: houses in Mabou and New York or trips to China and Spain.

In his work, here in 'Figure & Ground', Richard RENALDI melds two classic photographic genres - portrait and landscape - into a single descriptive frame that speaks as much to a sense of the individuals before the lens as it does to the space they inhabit

HC, 31,5 x 28,5 cm., 168 pp., color ills., text language: English

This catalog contains two significant photo projects from American photographer Mitch EPSTEIN: 'Recreation' documents the openness of a pluralistic society. 'American Power' draws attention to one of America's central power factors, the energy industry.

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

SC (no dust jacket, as issued), 25,5 x 29,5 cm., 40 pp., 35 ills., English, Ltd. to 500 copies

'ABC', selected and designed by William KLEIN himself, offers a visual survey of his varied career. It includes his poetic street photography of New York, Moscow, Rome, Tokyo and Paris; his fashion photography; filmstills; and his painted contact sheets.

Der Amerikanische Fotograf COHEN was a major figure in street photography since the 1970’s. He has been relentlessly photographing his home town, Wilkes-Barre in Pennsylvania and its surroundings.

German-language anniversary edition of the classic photo book. Walker EVANS put together 'American Photographs' himself. It became a sober, yet highly aesthetic description of the United States in the 1930s that influenced generations of photographers.

In 'Conversations', Rémi Coignet explores in interviews the question of what role the photo book plays in the work of photographers, designers & publishers and how their titles are conceived. Two more volumes with interviews have been published until now.

'In Color' by Bruce DAVIDSON presents his personal selection from his lesser-known color archive. These images date back 56 years and represent the photographer's color career from various fields such as magazines & commercial projects as well as fashion.

Photo book 'On Tthe Sixth Day' interprets the people and animals in the Argentine province of Buenos Aires. In contrast to globalized factory farming, the continuous cycle of life & death is present every day from morning to evening on small plots of land

In the photo book 'Songbook', the American Magnum photographer Alec SOTH shows images detached from their news context and in them reveals the longing for connection to one's own roots. The photo book title was printed in three editions.

In 'Beautiful, Still,' US-american photographer Colby DEAL documents overlooked communities and cultural traits that are gradually being erased by gentrification, as well as communities of color whose members are often portrayed with negative connotations

English edition. The text and picture book 'Andy Warhol. EXHIBITS a glittering alternative' explores the exhibition strategies of the American artist Andy WARHOL. It presents probably the most famous icon of Pop Art as an installation artist and curator.

HC, 30 x 25 cm., 200 pp., English

Photo volume 'BABY SUMO', the new edition on the occasion of Helmut NEWTON's 100th birthday. With more than 400 pictures, a booklet that documents the history of its creation and a specially designed book stand by French designer Philippe Starck.

HC (two different cover colors, no dust jacket, as issued), 16,5 x 20,5 cm., 64 pp., 20 color ills., bilingual text: German / English

HC with dust jacket, 21 x 23 x 2 cm., 207 pp., 96 b/w ills., text language: English

Slipcased HC with dust jacket, 30,5 x 38 x 2 (12 x 15 in.) cm., 48 pp., 20 duotone b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 350 numbered copies

First published in 1974, Robert ADAMS' photobook 'The New West' is now considered a photobook classic, along with 'American Photographs' by Walker EVANS and 'The Americans' by Robert FRANK as seminal photobooks exploring American culture and society.

Slipcased HC, 30,5 x 38 x 2 cm. (12 x 15 in.), 56 pp., 51 duotone b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 350 numbered copies

The photographs in 'First Pictures' by Joel STERNFELD were taken at a time when color photography had not yet been able to assert itself against the B/W tradition. They make this photo volume a revelation also in the history of contemporary photography.

DVD (PAL), 82 min., 16:9, English with German subtitles

Each of Chloe SELLS' works starts life as a simple photograph, created with her large format camera in Botswana, and is later transformed in her studio in London with darkroom manipulations and spontaneous experimentation. The result is this photo book.

The photo volume 'Two Rivers' by Magnum member Carolyn DRAKE deals about the two most important rivers in Central Asia, Amu Darya and Syr Darya. The self-published, unconventional book was designed by prominent Dutch photo book designer Sybren KUIPER.

'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.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 16 x 21 x 3 cm., 64 pp., highly illustrated in color & b/w, 272 gr., TEXT ONLY IN FRENCH

SC (open thread stitching, swiss binding) in printed slipcase, 14 x 20 cm., 158 pp., color ills., no text, Ltd. to 600 copies

In January 2020, Alec SOTH received a letter from a prison inmate asking the photographer for a dialogue. 'The Parameters of our Cage' contains the following correspondence in times of COVID-19 pandemic, 'Black Lives Matter' movement and civil unrest.

HC with dust jacket, 21,5 x 26 x 2 cm., 192 pp., 187 color ills., bilingual texts: German / English

re-edit, HC with dust jacket, as issued, 21 x 27 x 2 cm., 168 pp., highly illustrated, text language: English

In his artistic beginnings in the early 1950s, William EGGLESTON photographed with a 35mm high-speed film in black and white. 'Before Color' contains b/w photos of the pioneer of color photography discovered some time ago in the Eggleston Trust archive.

'Good 70s Boxed Set', contains facsimiles of releases by Mike MANDEL, previously unpublished work, and ephemera including contact sheets from 'Motel Postcards', 'People in Cars', 'Mrs. Kilpatric', and a package of ten of the original 1975 baseball cards.

2nd printrun, slipcased set of 2 linen bound HCs, each with dust jacket, 20 x 20 x 2 cm., 388 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

'War & Peace in New York. Photographs 1966-1970' by Tod PAPAGEORGE, comprises two photo volumes that provide a comprehensive portrait of a troubled city in a dark, febrile time. This is a city built sweetly, if seriously, at heart, to belong and to like.

'But Still, It Turns', a photo and text book edited by prominent British photo artist Paul GRAHAM, brings together collected dynamic and diverse works that tell open stories. These are brought together in this volume - in harmony and revealing dissonance.

HC (without dust jacket, as issued) in slipcase, 29,5 x 22,5 cm., 128 pp., highly illustrated, English

'Cloud Physics' by Terri WEIFENBACH explores the photographic ability to capture the transience of natural phenomena. Tiny variations of light and humidity, golden clouds, plant life rustling with moisture, animal presence in the depths of the forest.

In this out-of-print photo volume, 'Colors. The Polaroids', Dennis HOPPER documents gang graffiti in Los Angeles in the mid-80s. The photographs, reproduced in their original format, preserve that ephemeral kind of street art and communication method.

The mood conveyed here suggests a nostalgic representation of scenes from a coastal village. Technically adept like an advertising photographer and thoughtful like a conceptualist, ETHRIDGE ponders the role & importance of photography in the modern world.

'Contacts' is a collection of William KLEIN’s famous contact sheets. The most important works of this great artist have been chosen and printed from these contact sheets, which can be either detached and framed or kept in their original form in the book.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued) 35,5 x 23 x 2,5 cm., 272 pp., 142 color ills., 2.300 gr., bilingual TEXT: German / English

Slipcased HC, 30,5 x 38 x 2 cm. (12 x 15 in.), 48 pp., 32 duotone b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 350 numbered copies

In this out-of-print catalog volume 'Photographs 1961-1967' by Dennis HOPPER, 18 photographs were published for the first time at that time, as well as 21 photographs taken from the 1986 photo volume 'Ouf of the Sixties' and republished.

From the point of view of Hartford graduate Matt EICH, photography is the only antidote to amnesia against the knowledge of the damage we cause ourselves. The photo book 'Carry Me Ohio' is his love song for the exploited Apalachian state of Ohio.

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 14 x 24,5 x 1 cm., 88 pp., b/w & color ills., text language: English

The photo volume 'Stranger Passing' by Joel STERNFELD contains portraits taken in the America over a period of fifteen years. Based on August SANDER's classic photograph of three peasants on their way to a dance, a conceptual strategy was pursued here.

With b/w works by Antoine D'AGATA, Trent PARKE, Anders PETERSEN, Roger BALLEN, Jacob Aue SOBOL, Keizo KITAJIMA, Kim THUE, Marco VERNASCHI, Margaret M. DE LANGE, Michael ACKERMAN, Olivier PIN FAT, Giancarlo CERAUDO and Daisuke YOKOTA

'Subway', the new edition of 1986s original. In 1980 Bruce DAVIDSON began photographing the New York subway system. At first in black and white, but he soon realized that color film was necessary to depict the intensity of this graffiti-covered landscape.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 31 x 2 cm., 315 pp., b/w & color ills., text language: English

'Written on the Land' includes the work of Mark RUWEDEL from 1990 to 2001 and addresses the impact of technologies & culture on the US landscape, using resource extraction as an example, as well as the 'conquest' of the West through railroad construction.

'In History' shows how Susan MEISELAS deals with basic questions such as the relationship to her subjects, use & distribution of her images, and the relationship of images to history & memory. A contribution to the debate on contemporary photojournalism.

Newly reissued volume 'Andy Warhol. Polaroids 1958-1987' contains hundreds of instant images: Portraits of celebrities are featured, as well as his high kife, landscape photos and still lifes ranging from Cabbage Patch Dolls to his unmistakable soup cans.

'A Road Trip Journal' is a complete reproduction of the journal that Stephen SHORE made on his month-long tour in 1973 when he began work on his 'Uncommon Places' project. With postcards and reproductions that he made himself and distributed on his trip.

The handmade volume 'Visual History. Afghanistan 1980-2004' by Edward GRAZDA is reportage AND personal reflection on the people in Afghanistan with whom he spent time - and a documentary about those groups' creative approach to advertising and the media.

Embossed linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued) with tipped-in image on back cover, 22 x 29 x 1,5 cm., 80 pp., color ills., text language:

This slipcased two-volume-set, 'Fashion/Portraits', looks at the mark Terry RICHARDSON's work has left on fashion, photography as well as pop culture and captures his edgy, provocative style in a book as unusual & unforgettable as the photographer himself

Slipcased HC, 30,5 x 38 x 2 cm. (12 x 15 in.), 64 pp., 54 duotone b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 350 numbered copies

In 'Scatching My Name on Your Arm', the American photographer Deanna TEMPLETON documents the prevailing trend in California in the early 2000s that famous surfers' immortalize 'themselves on their fans' bare skin or underwear and bathing clothes.

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

The book 'Between Girls' by American photographer Karen MARSHALL shows a group of teenagers in New York and documents the emotional bonds between 16-year-old girls to show as well as their symbolic relationships. The book design is by Teun van der HEIJDEN

HC (no dust jacket, as issued) WITH 1 ORIGINAL POLAROID, 14,5 x 18,5 cm., 16 pp., 11 four-color plates, text language: English, Ltd. to 500 copies

Stephen SHORE's out-of-print photo volume 'Winslow Arizona' includes a selection of images he presented during contemporary artist Doug Aitken's 'Station to Station' project, which filmed a trans-American journey by train.

'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 with dust jacket, 28 x 28 x 3 cm., 240 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

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

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 19 x 26 x 1,5 cm., 128 pp., b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 700 copies

Slipcased Accordeon book, 6 x 8 inch., 86 dutone ills., text language: English

Out-of-print photography book 'Father Figure. Exploring Alternate Notions of Black Fatherhood' by US photographer Zun LEE explores issues of identity and representation, particularly how African-American men and fathers are represented in popular culture.

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 focus of the catalog illuminating the early phase of the BECHER school is on the mutual influences between the image concepts emerging in Düsseldorf and the innovations of the 'New-Color Photography' and the 'New Topographics' movement in the U.S..

'Intimate Distance' is the first comprehensive monograph chronicling the career of renowned photographer Todd HIDO. Author David Campany introduces the work, he specifically addresses the cinematic influences and the type of viewership his work requires.

This reissue of 'Tulsa' by American photographer Larry CLARK contains raw, haunting images from 1963, 1968 as well as 1971, documenting a youth that gradually destroyed itself. The b/w photos are as moving and disturbing today as when they first appeared.

This photo volume, '15 Miles to K-Ville' by Mark STEINMETZ, is a poetic journey through the outskirts of a fictional city somewhere between Knoxville, Tennessee & Athens, Georgia. The melancholic portraits as well as landscapes date from the early 1990s.

'Ed Ruscha and Some Los Angeles Apartments' describes Ed RUSCHA's work in relationship to other location photographers such as Carleton WATKINS, Walker EVANS, Robert ADAMS, Lewis BALTZ, Stephen SHORE, Bernd & Hilla BECHER and the 'New Topographics'.

The book 'Pictures From Home' by Larry SULTAN as a reissue of the title documenting his repeated return to his childhood home. For this, Super 8 films were newly digitized as well as everyday footage juxtaposed with the 'American Dream' of the Reagan era.

This Anniversary Edition of 'American Photographs' makes Walker EVANS' landmark book available again. Digital technologies aid in emulating the finely tuned balance of the 1938 reproductions, capturing as never before the look of the first edition.

'Geschlossene Gesellschaften' by Tomas van HOUTRYVE, illustrates the difference between promising communist theory and lived practice. For this purpose, he traveled to countries where the communist party remained in power after the end of the Cold War.

HC with dust jacket, 25,5 x 28 cm., 252 pp., 74 color & 100 b/w ills., 1,800 gr., text language: English