China

The photo volume 'Edit Beijing' by Guy TILIM is the result of his artist residency in China. Other renowned photographers whose works have been published in this series of photo books with original prints are Pieter HUGO, Michael KENNA and Hannah MODIGH.

In out-of-print photo volume 'Matriarchs', Austrian photographer Maria HAAS focuses on the investigation of cultures in which women have a special status. She opens these cultures to the viewer and captures their beauty and vitality in sensitive portraits

In his photo book 'Ctrl-X', Kai LÖFFELBEIN explores the use of limited resources and documents the path of e-waste from Europe and the USA to the post-apocalyptic Agbogbloshie (Ghana), the e-waste city Guiyu (China) and the backyard workshops of New Delhi

In the photo book 'China Dream', which bears the name of a patriotic calendar, we take part in the study by exiled Chinese photographer Teresa ENG about the contrast between cultural knowledge about China and the reality of a country in constant change.

In China DE MAAR made photographs of the ephemeral world of the home, of being rooted. The trained sociologist seeks out those striking and magical places where families have come together for generations-where life has 'worn itself into' a house.

Cloth bound (no dust jackets, as issued)

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 20,5 x 26,5 cm., 120 pp. + 40 pp. booklet, English, Ltd. to 300 copies

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24,5 x 30 cm., 216 pp., 128 color ills., English

In 'Hong Kong Flora', Michael WOLF turns his attention to plants and flowers in the urban jungle of the Asian metropolis. Each leaf, each branch, each flower a visible sign of the power of nature and people´s single-mindedness, to customize their habitat.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 15,5 x 21 x 1 cm., 80 pp., 64 color ills., no text, details in English, Ltd. to 500 copies

'Discover' by Francois DAIREAUX contains the story of a journey into the future, revealing the contrasts of a contemporary China in constant construction, with cities growing out of the ground as if by magic. With texts by sinologist Emmanuel Lingot.

This monograph on Magnum agency co-founder Henri CARTIER-BRESSON is about the decisive moment, humility and humanity in his work. The images reproduced in black and white range from the earliest works to landscape photographs from the 1970s.

The photo volume 'Two Rivers' by Magnum member Carolyn DRAKE deals about the two most important rivers in Central Asia, Amu Darya and Syr Darya. The self-published, unconventional book was designed by prominent Dutch photo book designer Sybren KUIPER.

HC with dust jacket, 21,5 x 28 cm., 112 pp., 57 b/w ills., Chinese/English, Ltd. to 600 numbered copies

'Common Dreams' by Kai LÖFFELBEIN reflects China's change and the existing contrasts. It critically examines its social and economic transformation with a focus on the lives of migrant workers who have to live in the outskirts of the large metropolises.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 19 x 28 cm., 124 pp., color ills., text language: text language: English

The photographic volume 'Approximate Joy' by Christopher ANDERSON offered here is from the 1st edition and is signed by the Magnum photographer. Collector's edition (1 of 30) with a signed C-print on metallic paper. Book with print and yellow slipcase.

Photo & text book 'Man redet immer zu viel' (You always talk too much) contains twelve interviews with Henri CARTIER-BRESSON from almost fifty years. In view of the flood of secondary literature, he provides authentic information about his life and work.

The very small photo book, 'Until death do us part', comes in an original box for cigarettes. It alludes to the role that cigarettes play in Chinese weddings: as a sign of appreciation, it is common for the bride to light a cigarette for every man invited

This monograph, 'I am,' on Erwin OLAF chronologically traces his career from brash provocateur to official portraitist of the Dutch royal family. Between the series, his opinionated texts provide insights into the context and inspiration of his works.

2nd print run, HC with dust jacket, 28 x 35 x 2 cm., 112 pp., color ills., text language: English

Cloth bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 30 cm., 168 pp., bilingual texts: German / English

This small photo book with 'new' quotations - built on the foundation of Mao’s 'Little Red Book' - resulted from a first trip to China in 2012. DE MIDDEL reacted with her camera to whatever caught her attention, without any attempt to explain or analyze.

The 'Qu Jing' (Shrew) is about the speed of growing up and contains photos taken by the young photographer Lin SHU during his life as well as his travels, as an expression of his personal experiences of loss & gain, letting go & possession, sadness & joy.

Cloth bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 15,5 x 21 x 2 cm., 152 pp., color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 500 copies

The German-language photo volume 'Bericht aus China. 1957-1980' by Magnum photographer Marc RIBOUD - simultaneously published as 'Visions of China' - contains around 100 documentary black-and-white photographs from the years 1957, 1965, 1971 and 1979.

HC with dust jacket, 26,5 x 24 x 1,5 cm., 88 pp., 63 color ills., bilingual: German / English

Colth bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 29 cm., 400 pp, dutone b/w ills., ext language: English

Linen bound HC (tipped in photograph, no dust jacket, as issued), 15 x 20,5 x 1 cm., 80 pp., 60 color ills., text language: English

SC in plastic envelope, 3 x 42 x 1,5 cm., 48 pp., 28 color ills., English

Selected as one of the Photo-Eye Best Photobooks of 2013, this special designed selection of full-length portraits, made in Chinese photo studios between the 1930s and the 1980s, reveals fragments of the history of Chinese society and ideology.

'Nationalfeiertag' by German photographer Katja STUKE, combines images from the Chinese National Day in Tiananmen Square with photographs from the commemoration of the 1989 massacre at the same place. Hidden are also texts from 1989 published in Hong Kong

In 'The Land of Promises', Youqine LEFÈVRE traces her own fate when she documents the China journeys of six adoptive families. As a result of China's one-child policy, she was one of the many girls separated from their families and put up for adoption.

The photo volume 'Chongqing Souvenir' Lukas BIRK is about how to bring impersonal images of violence to discussion. The people depicted in the book are dissidents who have been mounted in a book designed in the manner of private memory albums of the time.

Card board covered pages, 15 x 21,5 x 2 cm., 48 string-holded pp. (6 fold out pp.), 30 color ills., no text, Ltd. to 250 copies

In his atmospheric photo volume 'Nail Houses', Peter BIALOBRZESKI records buildings in China that are about to be demolished. For outsiders, the color photographs taken in the evening convey a feeling of homeliness, despite the cracks in the walls.

'Mouvement' about René BURRI gives an overview about his work which has written history. Removed from sensationalism yet no less striking are his images of the theater of war, of people suffering in poverty & with equal intensity to the spheres of beauty.

HC (with dust jacket), 32,5 x 26,5 x 2,5 cm., 221 pp., color ills., text language: English

Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 25,5 x 30 x 2,5 cm., 192 S., Farbabbildungen, deutsch-sprachiger Text - TEXT ONLY IN GERMAN!

HC, 34 x 28 x 2,5 cm., 144 pp., color ills., text language: English

The photo volume 'Hong Kong Lost Laundry' by Michael WOLF shows laundry carried away by the wind, which lands on cables, roofs and billboards and has thus become wondrous sculptures of everyday life. The final volume of the series 'Informal Solutions'.

This photo volume by Sebastião SALGADO documents traditional methods of sustainable coffee farming across the globe, revealing rituals deeply steeped in history & pride. 'Scent of a Dream' spans nearly a decade of research into the hidden world of coffee.

The volume 'Photographien', compiled by Henri CARTIER-BRESSON himself, combines the highlights of a life in the service of photojournalism and photographic art - the very combination for which it has repeatedly set new standards since the 1930s.

In the out-of-print photo book 'Landscapes', Chinese photographer Chen ZHUO explores the landscape and the changes and interactions between humans and nature. The artist's alienation from himself is also explored through the creation of natural scenarios.

Two slipcased HC, 31 x 24 x 4 cm., 352 pp., color ills., text language: English

Out-of-print 'Hong Kong Umbrella' by Michael WOLF shows umbrellas in the Back Alleys. The cover also refers to the yellow umbrella as a symbol of protest against Chinese appropriation; images of the 'Umbrella Revolution' by Lam Yik FEI can also be seen.

Reissue HC (no dust jacket, as issued) with ONE signed C-Print (20 x 16 cm.), 28,5 x 23,5 x 1,5 cm., color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 350 numbered copies

'MAGNUM's first' reproduces the first MAGNUM show with 83 black-and-white images by the Magnum photographers Werner BISCHOF, Henri CARTIER-BRESSON, Robert CAPA, Ernst HAAS, Erich LESSING, Jean MARQUIS, Inge MORATH & Marc RIBOUD, reproduced in large format

In her third photo book, XU documents the lives of people at the foot of the Great Wall of China. The wall is not a single, continuous structure, but a collection of fastenings that are also undergoing a visual transformation due to the change in China.

The photo book 'Flat Noodle Soup Talk' by Pieter HUGO is the result of an 'artist in residence' stay. Other books in this series by Guy TILLIM, Michael KENNA among others. This book was published in a limited edition of only 500 copies.

Ltd. Ed. with Print, HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 24 x 2,5 cm. + 1 C-Print, o.pp., color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 500 copies

'Wuhan Radiography' by Simon VANSTEENWINCKEL is an artistic result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Virtual wanderings through Wuhan, were photographed with an X-ray film from the computer screen to create a seemingly personally experienced image of that place.

In 'Cotton Worldwide', Hans Peter JOST documents on his travels to India, China, Brazil, America, Uzbekistan, Mali and Tanzania, the living and working conditions of cotton farmers as well as cultivation, harvesting, processing and marketing of cotton.

For his 'Tableaux chinois', Thomas RUFF has digitally processed Chinese propaganda images distributed worldwide by the Communist Party. In this large-format photo volume, the work transports the images of the 20th century into today's visual language.

HC (without dust jacket, as issued), 15,5 x 20,5 x 1 cm., 88 pp., 59 color ills., text language: English

pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 18 x 22 x 1,5 cm., 88 pp., approx. 60 b/w (+1 colored) ills., short bilingual text: Ukrainian / English

HC, 27 x 36,5 cm., 120 pp., 71 color ills., text language: English

In his 'Wuhan Diary', Peter BIALOBRZESKI turns his gaze on the Chinese city of Wuhan. His pictures - taken between February 22 and March 12, 2017 - show a pulsating city with over 19 million inhabitants, which has to cope with its own rapid development.

The situation of the Huai River is exemplary for the serious environmental damage in China as a result for the enormous economic growth. In some sections this is so heavily contaminated with toxicity that it is not advised to even touch the water.

HC with dust jacket, 20,5 x 30 x 2,5 cm., 412 pp., 354 color ills., text language: English

In his 'Polaroids from the Middle Kingdom', Lukas BIRK shows photographs taken between 2008 and 2010 in the People's Republic of China using expired film stock from the 1980s. The instant images capture the present through a filter of nostalgia & longing.

'Monkey to Monkey' consists of photos taken in northern China, Beijing as well as Shanghai. The monkey is the 9th animal of the 12 zodiac signs in Chinese astrology. It stands for discovery, activity, intelligence, curiosity & all-things-possible-thinking

The book 'Silk Road. 1956-1974' deals with the journeys of Emilia 'Milli' BAU with a wealth of images and text material from three decades. She traveled the Middle and Far East; the pictures and the diary-like texts describe what she saw and experienced.

Pb. with plastic dust jacket, paper & plastic pages, 23 x 20 x 1,5 cm., 84 pp., b/w ills., bilingual text: Ukrainian / English, Ltd. to 100 copies

In the book 'For my Mother' Ren HANG tells in a playful way about feelings, fears as well as the loneliness of the young generation in China. His works stand for the rebellion against conventions, where nudity and sexual freedom are subject to censorship.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 35 x 28 x 2,5 cm., 188 pp., 77 color ills., text language: English

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24,5 x 32 x 2 cm., 56 pp., 26 color ills. + 8 pp. booklet, text language: English, Ltd to 300 copies

In 2005, Edward BURTYNSKY gave in out-of-print book 'China' the industrial change in China a visual form for the first time. If the earth's resources were besieged by western colonialism, China was at the beginning of a comprehensive attack on the planet.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), approx. 28 x 18 x 1,5 cm., 76 pp., 33 color ills.,

SC, 15 x 21 cm., color ills. + signed picture, Ltd. to 250 copies

1st print run. Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 22,5 x 21,5 x 2 cm., 104 pp., 49 color ills., Ltd. to 600 numb. copies

In out-of-print book 'Portraits from above', Stefan CANHAM and Rufina WU document rooftop communities of five buildings in districts of the Kowloon Peninsula before their redevelopment - an unprecedented insight into everyday life on Hong Kong's rooftops.

Volume No.6 of the book series 'Grosse Photographern unserer Zeit' (Great Photographers of Our Time) presents the work of Swiss Magnum photographer Werner BISCHOF (1916-1954) in over 80 b/w images - works in the area of tension between art and reportage.

Out-of-print book '404 not found' by Li YANG deals with an abandoned place in Poeple's republic of China. It contains images of the city, which was once designed as a research base and was home to up to 50,000 people at times, taken around the year 2000.

In impressive b/w shots between documentary and art photography, Jacob Aue SOBOL sketches the preserved love of the two protagonists in the photo volume 'Onse and Axel' full of warmth. The thin large-format is wonderfully suited for this little insight.

For his photo volume 'The Queen, the Chairman and I', Kurt TONG traced his family's history. The work it reconnects him to the Hong Kong of yesteryear through his family's memories and humanizes the political-social upheavals that brought his family there

The small sized photo volume 'The Great Eastern' by Scott CONARROE examines the changing landscapes of China with a view to the massive expansion of a high-speed line, the domestic part of the Belt & Road Initiative, also known as the 'New Silk Road'.

18 'Ostkreuz' photographers portrait residents of Auroville, the slums of Manila, and the center of a decaying Detroit, Ordos in China, the artificiality of Dubai, and the bombed-out buildings in Gaza. The result is a portrait of a city that is all cities

The images in the out-of-print volume 'Good Luck China' show ERIC's interest in the people of China. The 6x7 images were taken throughout China, including places like Tibet and Inner Mongolia, as well as Beijing, which was preparing for the 2006 Olympics.

The black-and-white images in the self-published photo book 'Dit Skogen Aldrig Nar / Where the Forest never reaches' by Norwegian photographer Tore SANDAHL are mainly from the rural region of China and were taken between 2002 and 2016.

SC (no dust jacket, as issued), 15,5 x 22 cm., 98 pp., 38 color ills., English, Ltd. to 250 numb. copies

The Chinese artist uses the backdrop of commercial photoshoots to create new, unexpected narratives through the manipulation of bodies & objects in space. The series also speaks of the relationship between Western capitalist motifs and the global contexts

Triple out-folding HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 19 x 24 cm., 200 pp., 265 color & 6 b/w ills., bilingual text: English & Chinese

HC (without dust jacket, as issued), 22 x 28,5 cm., 192 pp. +16 fold outs, 118 color ills., Chinese/English, Lt.d to 600 numbered copies

Pb. in accordeon style, leporello with 11,5 m, color ills., Ltd. to 500 copies

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 27 x 27 cm., 144 pp., 117 color ills., bilingual texts: German / English

Edited and designed by Hans GREMMEN, this photographic volume 'Achive' on the work of Bertien van MANEN offers a unique insight and overview of the history of the Dutch photographer, making this publication the ultimate reference work on her work.

For his out-of-print photographic volume 'Ficciones', Chinese photo artist Yanchu SUN uses snapshots of family celebrations and the like taken in China in the 1970s or 1980s. He uses collages or drawings to destroy or perpetuate the stories in the photos.

'About Us. Young Photography in China' presents a selection of around 150 works by 40 Chinese artists. In b/w aesthetics or as dramatic stagings in color, created from the 90s to the present day, the focus is primarily on people in all thematic variations

The first title in a three-part series containing examinations about architectural development of cities in Asia includes mostly fullpaged colour images from Japan, Taiwan, South Corea, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Thailand, China & Laos made from 2014 to 2019.

HC with dust jacket, 43 x 28 x 2,5 cm., 152 pp., b7w ills., english

HC with dust jacket, 18,5 x 24 x 2,5 cm. (9,5 x 7 in.), 196 pp., 120 color & Duotone b/w ills., text language: English

In 'Neon Tigers', the metropolises, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Jakarta, Singapore & Shenzhen, merge into a virtual megacity. Peter BIALOBRZESKI's photos do not seem to reflect a real world, but rather dream worlds from films or PC games.

'Lady Luminance' is the debut book by Chinese photographer Quist TSANG. Using the female form as her primary subject matter, he has gained wide acclaim for creating memorable images that present the beauty of women against mundane everyday settings.

Pb. with dust jacket, 16 x 24 x 1,5 cm., approx. 140 pp., 107 color ills., trilingual text: English / German / Chinese, Ltd. to 800 copies