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'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

SC in silver foil envelope, spiral binded, 29 x 21 cm., 64 pp., b/w ills., Ltd. to 100 numbered copies

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

In 'Rivers Run Through It' Mark RUWEDEL follows the Los Angeles River to the Pacific Ocean. Using large and medium format, he recalls 19th century photographers like WATKINS & O'SULLIVAN as well as 'New Topographics' photographers of the 1970s

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.

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.

The out-of-print volume 'Marilyn Monroe' by US-American photographer Bert STERN contains a selection of the most beautiful color & b/w images taken during Marilyn's 'Last Sitting' 1962 in los Angeles, pictures of indescribable sensual and human charisma.

'Las Vegas. Notes from a Different Planet' by Barbara FILIPS and author Petra Piuk is a polyphonic portrait. It is at the same time a novella, a text montage, a picture story, but above all: a breathless journey into the heart of the gambling metropolis.

'Message from the Exterior' by landscape photographer Mark RUWEDEL explores in a humorous way ruins and remains of failed attempts to live in the harsh environments of the desert region east of Los Angeles, in small, often eccentric and somewhat lost huts

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 30,5 x 2 cm., 104 pp., 53 b/w & 29 color ills., text language: English

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

The photo volume 'Scapes' by American John DIVOLA contains some of his renowned series like 'Four Landscapes', 'As Far As I Could Get' and 'Dogs chaising my car in the desert'. The books on these have long been out of print. The essay is by David Campany.

'Day Sleeper' shows Dorothea LANGE through the eyes of Sam CONTIS, addressing resonances between the two ways of seeing. An unknown side with unseen photos of her family, studio portraits and photos taken in the streets of San Francisco and the East Bay.

Crescent City was once a place almost limitlessly rich in natural resources. In 'Redwood Saw' Richard ROTHMAN tries to document culture, people & landscape of this city in particular and the USA in general, the place serves as a model of a former boomtown

Ed RUSCHA is known for his paintings & drawings, but also for his photography. This catalog volume, 'Photographer', examines how the artist's various disciplines - painting, drawing, printmaking and photography - were guided and shaped by a single vision.

'ZZYZX' by Gregory HALPERN, contains photos from California - starting in the desert east of Los Angeles, stretching west through the city to the Pacific. It's an opus of fiction or fantasy - a structure that, like L.A. itself, is on the verge of collapse

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.

For 'She Disappeared into Complete Silence', Mona KUHN balances architectural lines, light reflections with a human figure against the backdrop of the California desert. The figure: surrealistic, fragmented, indistinct, sometimes in shadow or overexposed.

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

'Forever' photographs the movements of homeless people in L.A. from the perspective of the homeless. Instead of traces of material - chair or sleeping place, HERNANDEZ photographed between 2007 and 2012 what could be seen & observed from the street itself

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.

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

The out-of-print volume 'Photographien' with b/w images by Jeanloup SIEFF from 1958 to 1981 contains portraits, landscapes and pleasantly gentle nudes, followed by a few privileged moments and accompanied by texts that bear no relation to the pictures.

The photographs of novice swimmers in the photographic volume 'Swimmers by Larry SULTAN', taken between 1978 and 1982, signify a departure from his conceptual work. These are colorful works characterized by unpredictable shapes and random abstractions.

'Chroma' contains a photo series that originated in the early 1980s when John DIVOLA was looking for more stable material, such as the artificial, industrial cibachrome - very flawed for conventional images, but with properties that produced these images.

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 '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 book 'Las Vegas Studio' includes iconic photographs & film stills by Robert VENTURI and Denise SCOTT BROWN, as well as essays exploring how the images reflect the phenomenon of the modern city and a conversation about their influence on art and film.

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

The monograph, published shortly after the his death, contains all the important works that the known in Europe American photographer have made. Throughout his work, the photographer dealt with private, political and social facets of the 'American Dream'.