California

In the context of 2016s attacks in the U.S. Alejandro CARTAGENA, the photographer of out-of-print book 'Santa Barbara return jobs back to US' seems to be a lonely shooter, eyeing up his next victim through a rifle-scope and move to its natural conclusion.

1st printrun, pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 20 x 28 x 0,5 cm., 36 pp., 22 b/w ills., no text

SC (custom made sew binding), 23,5 x 30 cm., 84 pp., color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 500 copies

This out-of-print volume, 'Picturing America: Photorealism in the 1970's', offers a snapshot of this chapter in art history, when in the late 1960's a number of young artist:s in the United States began painting images directly from photographs.

This book, 'Omaha Sketchbook' by Gergory HALPERN, is a meditation on America, on the men and boys who inhabit it, and on the mechanisms of aggression, inadequacy and power, in loosely collaged spreads that reproduce his sketchbooks from construction paper

In 'The Bridge' Michael YUAN portrays the Golden Gate Bridge. A study of its form, lines, shapes & distinctive color: imposing towers, stylised street lamps, gigantic cables, bolts, plates with their own distinctive geometry & shape, colour, sound & light

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 19 x 26 pp., 118 pp., 62 ills. + fold out, text language: English

In his photo volume 'LA', Hans-Christian SCHINK generates - based on the precise investigation of the no man's land of Los Angeles - a contrast of nocturnal panoramic shots with extreme cropped enlargements that only hint at traces of urban action spaces.

The out-of-print photo volume 'Helmut Newton's Illustrated No.1 - No.4. Complete Edition' combines all between 1984 and 1995 of the self-published magazines by Helmut NEWTON in one volume. 134 of his best photographs - in black-and-white and in color.

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.