California

'Alison' includes a body of self-portraits. Beginning in 1970s in b/w, evolving into an exuberant, colorful, and obsessive practice. A singular, long-term exploration with beautiful, hilarious, enigmatic, heartbreakingly sad photos, sometimes all at once.

US photographer Edward WESTON kept a diary in which he recorded his struggle to understand himself, society and his art. 'The Daybooks of Edward Weston' were edited by Nancy Newhall in two volumes: one for his time in Mexico and one for Californian time.

'Public Matters' by documentary photographer Janet DELANEY gathers images from sunny Reagan-era San Francisco, capturing the spirit of protests & parades, and people shaken by the turn to conservative government as their 1960s demands now came to a halt.

The out-of-print catalog volume 'Anthony Hernandez' shows in over 30 street photographs the social landscape of Los Angeles, which Anthony HERNANDEZ has been documenting for more than forty years. The b/w and color photographs date from the 1970s and 80s.

In this out-of-print catalog volume 'Photographs 1961-1967' by Dennis HOPPER, 18 photographs were published for the first time at that time, as well as 21 photographs taken from the 1986 photo volume 'Ouf of the Sixties' and republished.

Slipcased HC, 30,5 x 38 x 2 cm. (12 x 15 in.), 64 pp., 54 duotone b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 350 numbered copies

The photographic volume 'At the Beach' by Tod PAPAGEORGE is the result of a long-term project that began in 1975 and ended in 1988. In 1978 he returned to Los Angeles to expand the series he had begun three years earlier, adding images in 1981 and 1988.

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.

'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.

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.

The 2nd chapter of the 'Santa Barbara' trilogy - 'Santa Barbara Shame on US' - by Alejandro CARTAGENA on the social-political development of the USA, shows the current situation in the USA in an almost theatrical approach to show the core of the decline.

In this photo volume, 'Seventy-Two and One Half Miles Across L.A.', Mark RUWEDEL documents a drive through Los Angeles, crossing as many geographical, economic, political and cultural boundaries as possible. Books by Ed RUSCHA served him as inspiration.

The out-of-print photographic volume 'A Letter from Japan.' with its black-and-white photographs by U.S. wartime photographer John SWOPE, include shots taken mostly in war-torn Japan in 1945, contrasting with his work as a Hollywood photographer.

Out-of-print photographic volume 'Remaining Light' by Jordan SULLIVAN combines photographs taken on Skid Row and in an office building in downtown Los Angeles with text excerpted from Eugene Ionesco's novel 'The Hermit'. Laser-printed on uncoated paper.

In 'Rodeo Drive' Anthony HERNANDEZ not only documents the urban live, his photos also show the complexity of social spaces. In a single shopping street, which is a symbol of civic success, the socio-economic tensions between the classes become visible.

'1991' by Richard MISRACH documents the remains after the cataclysmic firestorm that struck Oakland & Berkeley Hills. He roamed the devastated area and also targeted the most intimate details. The book was published to commemorate the 20th anniversary.

HC (open spine, no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 27,5 cm., 124 pp., color ills., bilingual text: Italian / English, 80 gr., Ltd. to 350 numbered copies

The retrospective catalog about Anthony HERNANDEZ provides a comprehensive introduction to his career spanning more than forty years, tracing both his evolution and highlighting the continuities in his practice with many photographs previously unpublished

Published in conjunction with an exhibition featuring photographs by three remarkable photographers at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to show their work, their relationship to one another and their place in the history of photography in the 1970s.

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