Becher school

Out-of-print volume 'As Dark As Light' contains a set of 16 nocturnal photographs made by Axel HÜTTE in various cities around the world. Aside from the underlying theme of night photography, the works are united by the strict geometry of the compositions.

This long out-of-print monograph by Andreas GURSKY includes the artist's best-known works as well as new works unpublished until 2018. Essays provide new insights into key images - an indispensable survey of one of the world's most influential artists.

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.

Open binded HC, 29 x 29 x 1 cm., 64 pp., 42 color ills., text language: English

Photo-text volume 'The Düsseldorf School of Photography' traces its ascendancy from the mid-1970s. Filled with superb reproductions of the artists' best-known pictures, this compendium offers the first encyclopaedic overview of this important movement.

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..

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.

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.

'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.

The out-of-print photo volume 'The Mill' (Die Mühle) by Matthias SCHALLER is a document of the living and working spaces of Bernd and Hilla BECHER, a former paper mill in the Düsseldorf district of Kaiserwerth, in which the couple lived from 1961 to 2003.

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.

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.

Laurenz BERGES - photographer of the Dusseldorf School - concentrates on the details of abandoned apartments, vacant houses and neglected courtyards, looks for zones of urban ambiguity and transforms them into poetic but strictly documentary photographs.

Paperback with photo works by Andreas GURSKY, Candida HÖFER, Axel HÜTTE, Thomas RUFF und Thomas STRUTH

This 'Special Edition Catalogue' is the first collection world-wide to feature each of the 18 series in Thomas RUFF's extensive portfolio. One of the special points about this collection is the use of different paper grades for the five included books.

For his 'Tableaux chinois', Thomas RUFF has digitally processed Chinese propaganda images distributed worldwide by the Communist Party. In this large-format photo volume, the work transports the images of the 20th century into today's visual language.

Out-of-print catalog for the major 'Bernd & Hilla Becher' retrospective at Metropolitan Musem with 3 essays and 108 plates to their life & work in a broad sweep. For the 1st time including their early works as well as an interview with the son Max Becher.

In his debut photo book, 'Fotografien 1991 1995', Laurenz BERGES shows the condition of barracks rooms like former Soviet troops, as they presented themselves after the fall of the Wall: clean-swept rooms that he photographed in daylight and in color.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24,5 x 27,6 x 2 cm., 160 pp., 98 color ills., German / English

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 with dust jacket, 32 x 28 x 3 cm., 180 pp., 131 color- & duotone b/w ills., bilingual texts: German /English

English Edition. In photo volume 'Bangkok' photographer Andreas GURSKY alludes to the ecological problems threatening Bangkok, which culminated in the widespread flooding that devastated large parts of Thailand shortly after these pictures were taken.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 22,5 x 30 x 2,5 cm., 128 pp., color ills., 1.200 gr., bilingual: German / English

In his volume 'Kontinente' Axel HÜTTE presents us his photographic vision of the earth in its climatic and geological diversity - a vision that moves between the poles of realism and romanticism. Dutch writer Cees Nooteboom wrote the accompanying texts.

This comprehensive monograph on the work of Thomas RUFF focuses on series of the last 20 years, for which he used found photographs of most diverse origins. In his examination of these visual worlds, he explores the technical conditions of photography.

Out-of-print double photo volume on the work of German photographer Axel HÜTTE accompanied his exhibitions 'Night and Day', with works created between 1995 and 2017, and 'Frühwerk', which focused on his early work with photos taken between 1978 and 1995.

This photo volume, 'Bunt: Farbige 1970er Jahre' (Colored. Colorful 1970s) by early BECHER student Volker DÖHNE, shows photographs of colorful cars in groups as well as stand-alone gazebos. The book is rounded off by a German-language introductory text.

The selection of images made for this out-of-print catalog volume of the Andreas GURSKY exhibition in Baden-Baden focuses on the immanent moment for the construction and reconstruction of reality.

The catalog for Thomas STRUTH retrospective provides information about his artistic development: from the first series 'Unconscious Places' to 'Nature and Politics', which deals with research and globalization, as well as early works and archive material.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 23,5 x 23,5 x 1,5 cm., 120 pp., color ills., 800 gr., multi-lingual texts: German / Polish / English

This First edition of photo volume 'Fabrikhallen' by Bernd & Hilla BECHER contains b/w photographs from the 1960s to 1990s. All factory halls were recorded in Germany, each recording is provided with the location and the date of the recording time.

With this monograph, 'Werke/Works. 80-08', an attempt has been made for the first time to fan out the oeuvre of Andreas GURSKY, who for many years has been one of the most important photographic artists in the world, in its entire encyclopedic breadth.

For her photographic volume 'Belgisches Haus', Candida HÖFER visited the 1950 opened building at Cologne several times and documented it in her impressive photographs. An essay by Marcus Trier is dedicated to the history of the traditional house.

In this photo book, 'Weimar', Candida HÖFER presents photographs of famous interior rooms in the city of Weimar, one of the big cultural sites of Germany, where Goethe and Schiller lived in the late 18th century and the Bauhaus was founded in 1919.

This catalog volume, 'Photographs 1984-2009' is the first monograph on Boris BECKER, who studied with Bernd & Hilla BECHER. All important series of works are shown. In it he concentrates in a special way on formal structures as well as color accents.