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 Previously unpublished images are re-edited and series are set in relation to each other.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 images in 'Berlin' by Daisuke YOKOTA exhibit his signature experimental processing techniques whilst also demonstrating unconventional shooting methods like re-appropriating thermographic & infrared cameras and rendering the images onto analog film.

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