California

'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.

Ansel ADAMS is one of the most important photographers of the 20th century. The book 'Yosemite and the Range of Light', which is also out of print in new editions, contains 116 b/w images, some of which are now considered classics of landscape photography

This expanded, revised edition of 'Los Angeles Spring' - one of Robert ADAMS' most influential series - shows what was left of those citrus groves, eucalyptus trees and palms that once flourished there in the 1970s and 1980s when he returned to L.A. Basin

Peter ALEXANDER recorded his visual experiences of the Californian zeitgeist in his Polaroids from 1972 to the early 1990s. In 2020 he put the previously unpublished pictures together as pairs. The accompanying text reveals amazing connections to his art.

Re-edit 2011, HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 32 x 24,5 x 2,5 cm., 128 pp., 12 color & 72 tritone ills., text language: English

This out-of-print book was published on the occasion of the retrospective exhibition 'Lewis Baltz: Rule Without Exception' at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris - designed by Lewis BALTZ himself, the essay by Bernard Lamarche-Vade is in French.

In 'Reading the Landscape', Olaf Otto BECKER documents the overexploitation of nature with images showing idyllic places of longing in Malaysia, Indonesia or California, as well as huge tracts of land deforested on behalf of international corporations.

In her book 'Cars and Cows', published in a limited edition of 500 copies, Ute BEHREND brings together two discontinued models of the 'American Dream' that are associated with the good old days of the United States: classic cars and old cattle breeds.

In 'Back to Back: From Backyard to Boulevard' Stig De BLOCK documents in an honest, intimate way the lowrider scene in L.A, California. The boulevard as a place where disputes can be settled and people from different rival neighborhoods can be together.

The out-of-print photo book 'Drive' by Andrew BUSH presents a voyeuristic look at Los Angeles motorists in their own driving living rooms. The captions are tantamount to notes on the speed and direction of travel he made during sue accompanying drive.