Architecture photography

Gebundene Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 18 x 25 cm., 352 S., S/W-Aufnahmen. deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

Out-of-print 'Projects Done' shows works by Candida HÖFER in unusual formats: Small-format of 'Zoological Gardens', 'The Citizens of Calais', 'On Kawara', or large images such as 'Türken in D.' and slides of '80 Pictures', shown with black on the pages.

Special accordeon folded, 22 x 28 cm., • 24 pp., 15 color ills. (offset printed), English text. Ltd. to 250 numb. copies (=181, numb. from 70 to 250, the rest went as special ed. with print)

This chronologically arranged monograph on the work of Eugène ATGET shows a photograph and includes the commentary of the editor, John Szarkowski. However, it is less about an exact analysis than about capturing the context and describing the attributes.

Gebundene Ausgabe, 30 x 26,5 cm., 347 S., Farb-Aufnahmen, deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

'Fotografien 1980-2010' gives a perfect overview of the photographic work of Hans-Christian SCHINK, including his series around German unity and series created in Asia. The conflict between civilization and nature can be found in almost all his works.

This perfectly produced photo volume, 'Kvidinge' by Gerry JOHANSSON, contains photographs taken between 2004 and 2007. It has been published in April 2007 as part of the exhibition 'On the verge of his existence' at the Hasselblad Center in Stockholm.

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.

Michael KENNA published 'The Rouge', a book on the Ford Rouge complex, back in 1995. The images on the same subject - the industrial complex built in Michigan in the early 20th century - published in 2016 are masterfully reproduced and superbly printed.

The out of print photo book 'Outposts. Kandahar Province' by Irish magnum photographer Donovan WYLIE shows color photographs of the Forward Operating Bases that were set up in the Afghan province of Kandahar to support the ISAF mission.

'Gaudi, Impresiones Intimas' by Aitor ORTIZ represents an artistic interpretation using the means of photography, poetry, book design & printing. The result: a Bible-like publication that is impressive in its minimalism, precisely designed and implemented

The volume 'Liechtenstein' documents a group of 20 photographs by former BECHER-scholar Candida HÖFER taken in fall/winter 2021. The works reflect her exploration of places of cultural life and, in this case, the architecture of the Kunstmuseum in Vaduz.

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.

The out-of-print book 'PKIN' (Pałac Kultury i Nauki) by Jacek FOTA deals about a huge communist building in Warszaw. It contains 70 color photographs and 10 pages of personal notes based on staff interviews. The book design is made by Ania NALECKA-MILACH.

The volume 'Vele' by Tobias ZIELONY is based on his animation film about the building complex 'Le Vele di Scampia', a symbol of the Camorra’s power in the Naples region and a key centre of European drug trafficking with an selection of 287 single images.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24,5 x 30 cm., 216 pp., 128 color ills., English

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'.

In the 1930s, Werner MANTZ was commissioned to produce an extensive photographic documentation. In the photo book 'On Coal Mining in Limburg' this work is presented as an important historical document of a glorious era in the style of New Objectivity.

HC mit Schutzumschlag, 30 x 38 x 4,5 cm., 320 S., color ills., in deutscher Sprache. GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

German photographer In the photo book '4100 Duisburg' you can see how the photographer Laurenz BERGEual language of silence and light that captures the visible present of places over which history seems to have passed as well as the echoes of former life.

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.

The 1929 self-published publication '50 Years Leonhard Tietz 1879/1929' contains an illustrated description of the company history. At the end of the volume, Werner MANTZ is explicitly named as the author of the artistic black and white recordings.

'Discover' by Francois DAIREAUX contains the story of a journey into the future, revealing the contrasts of a contemporary China in constant construction, with cities growing out of the ground as if by magic. With texts by sinologist Emmanuel Lingot.

For years, former BECHER student Candida HÖFER traveled around the world to photograph public and semi-public libraries. The photographic volume 'Libraries. The Return' brings together an essence of past work and juxtaposes it with current images:

The volume 'Höfe' by Bernhard FUCHS shows farms in the area around Helfenberg (Austria) that have been passed down from generation to generation. They are scattered in the hilly landscape of the Mühlviertel, where the climate is harsh and the soil barren.

The photographs of Sebastian MÖLLEKEN in the out-of-print photo book 'Tagebau' shift the sensation of time and size; they show how the landscape shapes the people who live in it - at the same time, the people shape the landscape.

Gebundene Ausgabe, 21 x 30 cm., 268 S., 165 Duoton-S/W & 3 Farb-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

Slipcased HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 30 x 24 x 2 cm., 144 pp., 87 tritone b/w ills. & 15 color ills., bilingual texts: 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

HC with dust jacket, 18,5 x 24 x 2,5 cm. (9,5 x 7 in.), 160 pp., 120 duotone b/w ills., English

The out-of-print volume 'Ed Ruscha. Road Tested' contains key works from throughout the artist's career and how his penchant for driving and mobility inspired him. A fold-out map shows his 1956 driving route, as well as several other stops in Los Angeles.

In out-of-print 'Beyond Architecture', Yvonne Meyer-Lohr compiles architecture photos by Michael KENNA in an unusual artistically intuitive & completely new composition. Thus expands the view of the architectural object to inspiration & the poetry of form

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

Unlike in his thematic stories, out-of-print book 'Jahrebuch' by Ulrich WÜST reveals something very personal & private. Here, the world seems to be surrounded by a melancholy veil that does not conceal anything, but rather reveals the precision of vision.

Open spined, handmade HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 18 x 24 x 2 cm., 130 pp., color ills., bilingual text: French / English, Ltd. to ONLY 63 numbered copies

'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'.

Broschierte Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 17,5 x 25 cm., 401 S., zahlr. S/W Foto-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

'Södrakull Frösakull' explores the heritage of B.Mathsson, one of Swedish modernism’s leading designers. In Frösakull, a house he designed & lived in, Mikael OLSSON has created an interplay between presenceand absence, inner meaning & outer representation

'Architekturphotographie in Köln. 1926-1932' to the same named exhibition at Museum Ludwig, Cologne, contains b/w photographs by the photographer Werner MANTZ showing Cologne buildings from the 1920s and 30s - photographed in the style of New Objectivity.

Clothbound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 20 x 24 cm. 105 pp., b/w ills.,

2nd print run, HC with dust jacket, 28 x 35 x 2 cm., 112 pp., color ills., text language: English

The catalog accompanies the exhibition SUBJECT AND OBJECT. PHOTO RHINE RUHR and contains many illustrations, current texts and photo-historically significant articles. It examines relationships between different photographic positions that have developed.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 29 x 34 x 2 cm., 96 pp., 80 color ills., text language: English

In 'Architecture' continues Hiroshi SUGIMOTO's long-term research into the passage of time and history. Due to their blurring and lack of color, he reduces the buildings to the essentials and question the monuments of human inventiveness & industrial age.

In his book 'Köln. Das Gesicht einer Stadt' (Cologne. The Face of a City), Jo FOBER expressively portrays and documents the metropolis on the Rhine and the development of its architecture. In this way, he skillfully presents a new perspective on the city.

The book 'American Winter' by Gerry JOHANSSON shows half-empty cities across the U.S., with as much beauty as misery in snow-covered landscapes: a lonely church floating in a dappled sea of white, or bare trees lining endless highways tending to nothing.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 27,5 x 22 x 4 cm., 344 pp., 213 color & 80 b/w ills., text language: English

In the volume 'Raum und Bild' (Space and Image), a dialog between applied & artistic photography unfolds from the comparison of images by Candida HÖFER with interiors from the over 150-year-old photography collection at the Museum für Fotografie in Berlin

Long time out-of-print catalog volume 'Aus der Distanz' features works by Bernd and Hilla BECHER as well as by Becher students Andreas GURSKY, Candida HÖFER, Axel HÜTTE, Thomas RUFF, Thomas STRUTH as well as Petra WUNDERLICH. And it contains two texts.

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.

Out-of-print photo book 'Amerikabilder by Gerry JOHANSSON' contains photographs from 1962 and 1963. His black-and-white shots of New York and Chicago breathe the aura of famous American photographers such as Robert FRANK, Lee FRIEDLANDER and Walker EVANS.

SC (no dust jacket, as issued), 30 x 21 cm., unpaginated, 47 color ills., English, Ltd. to 650 copies

The large-format photographs in the photo volume 'Ortszeit / Local Time. Fotografien 1990-2004' by Stefan KOPPELKAMM allow a detailed reading of all the traces of time: the dramatic social and economic changes after German reunification become visible.

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.

In this book, 'Halland', Gerry JOHANSSON shows how wind power changes the experience of the landscape, where small wind turbines built in the coastal and agricultural landscape are being replaced by larger wind farms in the forest and mountain landscape.

Three slipcased HC, 30,5 x 14 x 46 cm., 966 pp., color ills., multilingual text: German / English / French

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 20 x 15 x 1,5 cm., 92 pp., 40 color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 700 copies

The out-of-print photo volume 'Pontiac' by Swedish Gerry JOHANSSON' shows a desolate American industrial landscape as a result of the financial crisis and as the third and final part of the series that began with 'Kvidinge' and continued with 'Ulan Bator'

'Bauten' by Boris BECKER was published on the occasion of an exhibition at Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf. It consists of a cassette with 8 color prints and a leaflet with text by Katja Blomberg and an index with details. No. 80/100, autographed on the map.

At the 1937 World's Fair in Paris, Cologne was the only city in the world to be represented with its own pavilion at the Seine river, captured by Karl Hugo SCHMÖLZ. The photo book 'Cologne and the Seine' tells a forgotten episode of Franco-German history.

English ed., HC with dust jacket, 28 x 25 cm., 152 pp., 50ß b/w ills., text language: English (Amelunxen-essay & interview bilingual, in English and German)

'Yokohama Gorakuso' contains b/w architecture photos, but Miyako ISHIUCHI makes from them soul full portrait photographs of a building. A secret history of this building complex and in certain ways an answer to her first photo volume, 'Apartment' (1978).

This out-of-print photo volume, 'Decreazione' by Josef KOUDELKA, designed as a leporello, accompanied the exhibition of nine large-format black and white panorama photographs that were exhibited in the Vatican pavilion during the 2013 Biennale.

In the book 'Verlassene Ort' (Abandoned Places) various photographers document the beautiful and at the same time eerie atmosphere of places where decay has set in and nature has returned. The history & present of these places are explained in short texts

Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 255 S., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEX ONLY!

Out-of-print 'Architectures of Waiting' by Ursula SCHULZ-DORNBURG shows bus stops in Armenia and stations of the Hejaz Railway in Saudi Arabia on a railroad line that once connected Damascus with Medina, but on which no trains have been running for long.

HC, 22,5 x 27 cm., 160 pp.

In her photo book debut, 'Germania Eck', Isabell HOFFMANN uncovers historical traces of National Socialism in Koblenz in multi-layered photographs. The documentary-artistic images are shown on an archival level with photographs and plans from the 1930s.

by Betrand Lemoine. 2016. Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 26 x 37 x 2 cm., 168 pp., 33 photographs, 4.300 drawings, multilingual text: German / English / French / Italian

'The Land in Between', Ursula SCHULZ-DORNBURG is about the bond between landscape & civilization. Areas of past historical importance show how conflict, destruction & decay transforms landscapes in Armenia, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen & Syria

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.

Out-of-print 'Twenty-six Gasoline Stations' is an artist book icon. The black & white photographs inside show gas stations between Ed RUSCHA's house in Los Angeles and his parents' house in Oklahoma City. His first volume in a series of photo artist books

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 30 x 3 cm., 288 pp., 350 ills. (50 in color & 300 duotone), bilingual text: English / German

French photographer David NISSEN's self-published volume 'Out of the Darkness' follows a mysterious rhythm. The black and white photos create a loneliness of light and its shadows. The slim photo volume in a small print run of 300 copies is really a gem.

Published in limited edition, this book of photographs, 'America Revisited' by Swedish photographer Gerry JOHANSSON, consists of 83 images in black and white taken during his travels in the United States over the past forty years.

Out-of-print photo volume 'The Playbook' by Alex S. MACLEAN features aerial photos of the American leisure industry. From symmetrical beauty of sports stadiums to the spaghetti-like tangles of pathways at theme parks to picnickers on a sprawling beach.

'Eugène Atget. Retrospective', published for the major exhibitions in Paris & Berlin, contains the most important photographs created between 1900 and 1925. Essays trace his wide range of themes and motifs as well as his impact on the French Surrealists.

In 'Budapest Courtyards' French photographers Yves MARCHAND & Romain MEFFRE document this systematically and create a typology that describes the special form of collective living and reflects the turbulent history of the city and its changing politics.

SC (no dust jacket, s issued), 19 x 32 x 0,5 cm., 24 pp., color ills., Ltd. to 750 copies

This catalog, published on the occasion of an auction of International Style photographs, contains many exterior and interior photos as well as furniture, an introductory text and a detailed appendix, in which all photographers and architects are named.

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.

SC, 22,5 x 28,5 cm., 88 pp., 34 color ills. + 140 cm-long leporello, German/English

New edition of the long out-of-print photo volume, 'Berlin, Fruchtstraße am 27. März 1952'. Arwed MESSMER and Annett Gröschner address the facets of photo documentary by creating the portrait of a street of 32 individual photographs by Fritz TIEDEMANN.

Photo book 'Autobahn' by Berlin based Ostkreuz photographer Jörg BRÜGGEMANN contains color photographs of German motorways that were taken between 2014 and 2019. It questions the present and future significance of the achievement from the Weimar Republic.

Pb, (no dust jacket, as issued), 28 x 39 x 1,5 cm., 40 pp., 16 color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 1,000 numbered copies

The out-of-print photographic volume 'Successive Sliding of Pleasure' by Japanese photographer and renowned printer Osamu KANEMURA was published in an edition of only 200 copies on the occasion of an exhibition.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 28 x 28 x 2 cm., 144 pp., 71 color ills., bilingual text: French / English

The out-of-print volume accompanying the 2013 exhibition at Museum Kunstpalast offers an overview of 70 works by Candida HÖFER, created exclusively in Düsseldorf over the course of 40 years. It represents the beginning but also shows the work around 2013.

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

HC (red leatherette with sticker image front and back - no dust jacket, as issued), 24,5 x 31 x 1 cm., 120 pp., b/w-ills.,

In the book 'Frames of References' we get to know the extensive work of Lucinda DEVLIN. As one of the early important representatives of the 'New Color Photography', her focus is on interiors of all kinds and since the 2000s on outdoor spaces & landscapes

The images in out-of-print 'Ansichten von Pagan, Burma' by Ursula SCHULZ-DORNBURG document a temple system in Burma (Myanmar) in the late 1970s. The book contains landscape photographs as well as pictures of stone sculptures from inside the Ananda Temple.

In 'Steinwerke und Kalköfen', German photographers Bernd & Hilla BECHER document buildings in the stone processing industry in Europe. For 30 years they photographed the different variants of a building type from the early days of industrialization.