Berlin

This version of the book 'EIN-HEIT' (U-NI-TY) is a re-edit. Originally published in 1996, Michael SCHMIDT investigated the question of 'unity', tracing the symbolism & iconography of political systems, their propaganda & the images of people they project.

HC, 15 x 20 cm., 128 pp., 100 ills., bilingual text: German / 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.

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

The b/w images by Sibylle BERGEMANN collected in her out-of-print photo book 'Fenster' do not follow any overarching plan, but are an expression of subjective perception. Each with its details captured window says something about the people they belong to

HC 19,5 x 22 cm., 122 pp., b/w ills., bilingual text: English / German

For his volume 'Wall and Peace', Kai WIEDENHÖFER has documented walls and barrier fences all over the world: in Berlin, Belfast, Mexico, Ceuta & Melilla, in Baghdad and the wall on the border line with the West Bank, with the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Egypt.

'Jenny, Jenny' is not documentary: ZIELONY avoids the journalistic impetus for certainty & truth. To him, the authenticity of the subject is as relevant as the question of the objectivity of the documentary image: both are never free of dramatic elements.

Out-of-print volume 'Berlin 1978-1987' by Boris BECKER shows early works of the photographer of the Düsseldorf Photo School, taken on 35mm and medium format. In the course of history and the change of our perception, these have gained in importance.

After projects drawing from archives, Arwed MESSMER turns for 'Clearing the Dephts' to his own archive, which contains many problematic aspects of German history. Previously unpublished images are re-edited and series are set in relation to each other.

Out-of-print artist's book, 'Lange Weile' by Tina BARA, contains b/w-mages taken between 1983 and 1989 in East Berlin, the old GDR and other travels. This visual diary captures a moment right before the collapse of an entire political & ideological system

In his book 'FRG', Georg KUSSMANN describes a place caught between the weight of the past & the demands of the present. Evoking German histories of work ethics, dictates, & acronyms, he takes a subtle approach to how Germany struggles to understand itself

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24,5 x 21,5 cm., 84 pp., 54 tritone ills., German / English

Thread-sewn HC with silk, laminated & embossed with dust jacket, 24,5 x 31,5 cm., 72 pp., 32 triplex b/w ills., bilingual texts: English / German

The out-of-print volume on August SANDER shows around 40 b/w photographs that are exemplary for the portrait work created between 1921 and 1930 - around the time of the Weimar Republic: people from Cologne, the Westerwald, the Eifel, Hamburg and Berlin.

In out-of-print photo book 'Die Deutschen', René BURRI mainly depicts everyday life in Germany, where the bullet holes from the war can still be seen on the wall of the building. Hepursued his project for many decades. In 1986 and 1999, it was republished

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

'Berlin on a Dog's Night' by Gundula SCHULZE ELDOWY contains images made in old East Berlin from the cycles 'Berlin in einer Hundenacht', 'Der Wind füllt sich mit Wasser', 'Aktporträt', 'Arbeit', 'Straßenbild' & 'Tamerlan' together for the first time.

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 30,5 x 24,5 x 2 cm., 232 pp., 208 tritone ills., bilingual text: German / English

'Die Farbe Grau' combines photographs by Michael SCHMIDT - the series 'Berlin-Wedding' (1976-1978) and 'Waffenruhe' (1985-1987) with several pictures by famous artist Gerhard RICHTER from the years 1965 to 1974 as well as the work 'Siegel/Grau' from 1991.

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

The images in the self-published volume 'da denk ich, dass ich fliegen kann' by Conny HÖFLICH give insight into the parallel world of children and the loss of immediate access. The pictures also tell of this in their ambivalence of closeness and distance.

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.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 22 x 29 x 2 cm., 102 pp., 39 b/w ills., text language: English

In 5th volume of his 'Deeper Shades' series, Andreas BITESNICH examines one of the most fascinating and diverse cities in Europe. After several years of work, this limited edition of 960 individually numbered copies with obi volume was published in 2017.

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.

The multi-layered photographs in 'Metropolis. Berlin' by Barbara WOLFF take the viewer on an emotional journey through the city. 'Metropolis' is about the change of the city of Berlin, about provocation and chaos, about secrets, but also about visions.

The photo volume 'Sight' by Yoko ASAKAI contains portraits of people from all over the world watching a film at home. The relationship between looking and being looked at is explored. The concentrated-portrait subjects seem to be unaware of the camera.

Out-of-print 'Berlin' by Raymond DEPARDON contains images, made between 1961 and 2013: the construction of the Berlin Wall, the arrival of Robert Kennedy / Queen Elisabeth, the fall of the Wall, and the reconstruction of two sides of an abandoned frontier

The out-of-print volume 'Deutsche Bilder: Fotografien 1965-1980' by Dietmar GOTTSCHALL documents the life in Germany covering a broad photographic spectrum, from everyday events on the streets of Germany to the world of the successful business journalist.

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

SC (no dust jacket, as issued), 16 x 22 cm., 120 pp., full paged b/w ills., English / German

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

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 30 x 6 cm., o.pp., b/w ills., Ltd. to self made 200 copies

The out-of-print photo volume on Helga PARIS documents the melancholy vitality of East Berlin corner pubs and the poetic tristesse of Berlin streets in the 1970s. Here, we travel to Georgia & Transylvania and wander through the industrial city of Halle.

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.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 32 x 1,5 cm., 112 pp., b/w ills., text language: French

The catalog title 'Indstillinger', means both on the camera setting and the personal attitude of Danish photographer Krass CLEMENT. We see works from several known books: Roskilde, Faergen, Novemberrejse and there are also many unknown photos to discover.

The catalog volume for the exhibition 'Die Neue Sachlichkeit' at Centre Pompidou shows 32 photographs by August SANDER, surrounded by artists and subjects from painting & sculpture, design & architecture, photography, film & graphics, theater & literature

The book 'Berlin Kreuzberg' contains some early works by photographer and former police officer Michael SCHMIDT. The black and white photos taken in the Berlin district in the mid-1970s show the urban environment subjectively but without any artistic airs

By chance, Mark POWER was present at the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. To mark the 25th anniversary, he self-published his photo volume 'Die Mauer ist Weg!' (The wall is away) which corresponds to a newspaper that he bought in Berlin the morning after.

High-contrast chiaroscuro of b/w images by Robert HÄUSSER in out-of-print book 'Die Berliner Mauer' shows the structure as an expression of the brutality of the GDR regime and its contempt for humanity, conveying a feeling of homelessness & imprisonment.

'Berlin 1966-70' by Arwed MESSMER shows the student protests from the perspective of the Berlin police. For this he digitized over 1000 negatives. Edited in a film-like sequential narrative structure, he breaks down the boundaries between photo and film.

This new edition of the photo volume 'Made in Germany' by Leonard FREED, first published in New York in 1970, has been accompanied by a booklet containing previously unpublished images, documents as well as texts from 50 years of his Germany photography.

Clouth bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 31 x 25 x 2 cm., 120 pp., 59 color ills., text language: English

In his self published photo book, 'Berlin', Berlin-born photographer Andreas GEHRKE shows the well-documented German capital that many of us think we know in an extremely intimate way, as well as those radical upheavals that have so uniquely shaped Berlin

Out-of-print volume 'Berlin und die Berlinern' with 60 images by Lynn MILLAR and 27 b/w images by Will McBRIDE contains a compilation of the most expressive photos of an exhibition shown in 1958, supplemented by additional shots from East and West Berlin.

The out-of-print catalog for huge Michael SCHMIDT retrospective, took place in Berlin, includes well-known and rarely seen works as well as the very informative texts by renowned authors can already be considered a reference work about Berlin photographer

In his photographic volume 'Berlin' Jason LANGER explores the city as well as places where Jewish people were deported or killed and also takes this as an opportunity to rethink his preconceived notions and find a new image of contemporary Germany.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 14 x 18 cm., 46 pp., English. Ltd. to 100 copies

Out-of-print 'Hufelandstrasse. 1055 Berlin' by Harf ZIMMERMANN presents b/w images of people & buildings on this street, as well as intimate color photographs of families in their homes. A historical document of a journey through time devoid of nostalgia.

The photographic volume 'Reenactment' by Arwed MESSMER presents an artistic perspective on the legacy of the GDR secret police. It uses photos from the archives of the Ministry of State Security (Stasi) showing failed escape attempts at the Berlin Wall.

In the photographic volume 'The Sad-Eyed Lady', photographer Harf ZIMMERMANN documents the Berliner Luft- und Badeparadies ('Blub' for short), a once popular swimming and leisure center in the Berlin district of Britz, which is now a graffiti-covered ruin

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 26 x 23,5 x 1,5 cm., 84 pp., 41 b/w & color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 750 copies

In her out-of-print book 'Am fortgewehten Ort', Gundula SCHULZE ELDOWY tells of the synthesis in which the life of East Berlin bohemians in decaying rear buildings merged with that of the original inhabitants when she came to Prenzlauer Berg in the 1970s.

Among the perfectly printed photographs in the book 'Fritz Kühn. Das photographische Werk 1931-1967', there is also a sequence of mostly unpublished photographs taken in Italy, which are among the most sovereign works of the artist who worked in the GDR.

Pb. with poster as dust jacket, 22 x 28 x 1 cm., 76 pp., with 11 color & 23 b/w ills., bilingual texts: German / English

In the volume 'DDR Ansichten. Views of a Vanished Country', Thomas HOEPKER documents life and the GDR from 1959 until the fall of the Berlin Wall: rallies, dilapidated facades & prefabricated buildings, empty display cases as well as portraits of artists.

The photographs in 'Berlin Wonderland' makes clear how much the city has changed. It revives this unique time of awakening, resistance & reorganization. In interviews & quotes, protagonists of that time bring the subculture of Berlin's Mitte back to life.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 14 x 22,5 x 1,5 cm., 160 pp., 101 b/w ills.,

The out-of-print volume 'Half Life' by Michael ACKERMAN with images from Poland, Cuba, New York, Berlin and elsewhere, is hard to place. A hallucinated array of images of exile and of phantoms, in which places and people absorb us into the same black aura

The out-of-print photo book 'Venten på i går. Waiting for yesterday' by Danish photographer Krass CLEMENT brings together (some full-page) color as well as black-and-white photographs from East Berlin before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall. No text.

The out-of-print volume 'Seiltänze' by Wolfgang KROLOW is a photo book from and about Kreuzberg, Berlin. It contains black-and-white photographs showing alldays life in the early 1980s. The texts are by Rolf Hosfeld and Peter-Paul Zahl.

Actual printrun, HC with dust jacket, 27,5 x 23,5 x 2,5 cm., 184 pp., bilingual text: German / English (with 8 pp. insert)

'Stadt. Land. Hund' (City. Country. Dog) Photographs 1966-2010' accompanies an exhibition on the work by Sibylle BERGEMANN. In over 200 photographs it presents her unique cosmos. For the first time, it contains motifs from her early work in former GDR.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21,5 x 30 x 3,5 cm., 749 pp., b/w ills., bilingual texts: German / English

Pb. with dust jacket, 20,5 x 27 x 2,5 cm., 220 pp., 126 b/w ills., bilingual text: German & English

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 with foil stamping (no dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 29 cm., 104 pp., 84 duotone b/w ills., bilingual texts: 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.

Self published photo volume 'Provisional Life' by Icelandic photographer Rannveig EINARSDOTTIR is the result of a project about refugees living in German refugee homes. It comes as a arge format leporello with a (rather hidden) German/English text pages.

Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 30 x 30 x 2,5 cm., 140 S., 66 Farb-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - TEXT ONLY IN GERMAN!

Gebundene Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 20 x 26,5 x 2 cm., 120 S., 67 Farb-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - TEXT ONLY IN GERMAN!

For self-published book 'Berlin-Tegel Airport', Andreas GEHRKE documented the once crowded main terminal, the disused airfield and the abandoned outbuildings. His pictures show a juxtaposition of vision and standstill and how they finally became reality.

Open binded HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 14,5 x 20 pp., 80 pp., 46 b/w ills., details but no text in English, Ltd. to 200 numb. copies

This book shows Marie GOSLICH photographs as a mirror of their time, documenting the social ills & the destruction of infrastructure in Berlin. With her camera she traces as well hardship, narrowness as decay and drew an unadulterated picture of the city.

This out-of-print photographic volumek 'Urban Secrets' by prominent German skate photographer Helge TSCHARN contains a compilation of his skateboarding photos against the backdrop of urban architecture in Europe.

This catalog examined & showed Michael SCHMIDT's self-portraits for the first time. In addition, 'Landschaft - Waffenruhe - Selbst - Menschenbilder' (Landscape - Truce - Self - Images of People) deals with well-known and other less frequently shown series

'Eva Besnyö. Photographer. Budapest - Berlin - Amsterdam' is a catalog whose photographs cover the six-decade-long creative period of the Hungarian photographer as well as the areas of street-, architectural and, last but not least, portrait photography.

This photo book, 'Irgendwo', with black and white photographs is the result of a series of trips that Michael SCHMIDT undertook together with his wife in a caravan after the fall of the Wall in order to wrest a valid face from the German provinces.

'Kriegsfibel' (War Primer) by Bertolt Brecht is THE anti-war book. It was first published a year before his death and a few times reissued. This edition was published by his daughter, Barbara Brecht-Schall, in memory of book's creation in exile in Denmark

Catalog brochure 'Treppen im (stairs at) Künstlerhaus Bethanien' by Marianne POHL was published on the occasion of the exhibition there in 1981. It contains a total of 27 b/w photographs on, a text by Inken Nowald as well as a biographical artist's note.

The 'Dirk-ALVERMANN-Photobook-Library' currently contains one copy each of nine publications, which are already out of print at their publishers. Some of the books are SIGNED, like 'Keine Experimente' (1961), 'Zwischen den Zeiten' (2006) & 'dacapo' (2008)

Pb (no dust jacket, as issued), 26 x 34,5 cm., 174 pp., b/w ills., Ltd. to 15 copies

The collection for the book 'Personal Best' was selected by Elliott ERWITT himself. Anyone who browses through the carefully edited retrospective will be filled with a nostalgic mood, a sense of wonder - and an enduring feeling for the richness of life.

The photographic volume 'Berlin. Wilhelmstrasse 44' by Candida HÖFER deals with an icon of 'architecture brute', which was built in the middle of the 1970s in the former GDR and is now shared by the Embassy of the Czech Republic and a Max Planck Institute

'Brandenburg' by Andreas GEHRKE is a thoughtful portrait of that binding land surrounding the capital Berlin. In a consistent departure from the purely documentary, his images never refer to history, but form subtle allusions to structural, social changes

Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 34 x 21 x 2 cm., 128 S., 60 S/W Abb. in triplex, deutsch-sprachiger Text - TEXT ONLY IN GERMAN!

In 'Footfalls Echo', New Zealand photographer Freya COPELAND explores the loneliness & disconnection experienced in modern cities. The photos were taken in and around New York as well as in Berlin. Anextra volume contains an essay by Anna Hanlon in German

Gebundene Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 21 x 27 cm., 200 S., 170 S/W-Aufnahmen, deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

SC, 56 pp.,

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 27 x 27 x 1,5 cm., 120 pp., appendix, short overview about history, highly b/w illustrated, 930 gr., German / English

HC (no dst jacket, as issued), 21 x 28 x 2,5 cm., 192 pp., 150 b/w & color ills., bilingual texts: German / English