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Over 150 photo books from a private collection for sale. Signed titles, some in their original packaging and collector's editions with print from 2010 to 2016. Also to find next days with detailed description in the 'other second-hand photo books' section

Cafe Lehmitz Photobook Libraries shall enable collectors as well as institutions to acquire out-of-print titles at a price that can be paid. This library, the Paul GRAHAM Photobook Library, contains currently 19 photo volumes - mainly signed copies.

For this artist edition of 'Neue Welt', Wolfgang TILLMANS has selected 72 images and re-contextualized them on large, 24 folded printed sheets. Each is a separate object with a front, center fold and back. And some new photos are not included in the book.

Photo volume 'BABY SUMO', the new edition on the occasion of Helmut NEWTON's 100th birthday. With more than 400 pictures, a booklet that documents the history of its creation and a specially designed book stand by French designer Philippe Starck.

The title of the out-of-print photo volume 'Until the Kingdom Comes' by Simen JOHAN is derived from a part of the prayer known as the Lord's Prayer. #14 of 75 numbered and signed copies. 28 color images on 64 unbound pages in a cloth-bound clamshell box.

Cloth bound (no dust jackets, as issued)

'Cette Montagne. C'est moi' is a 'real Revier 'book about a coal mining area that stretches from France to Belgium and Germany to Poland. Dutch photographer Witho WORMS documented the heaps, photobook designer Hans GREMMEN congenially staged the pictures.

Vorzugsausgabe mit sign. & num. Originalabzug (Aufl. 20 +2 hc) in gewebebezogener Grafikmappe. Buch: HC, 32,5 x 28,5 cm., 120 pp., 112 ills.(43 in color), German & English

HC with dust jacket, approx. 30 x 25 cm., unpaginated, 55 b/w ills., Ltd. to 200 copies

The out-of-print photo volume 'Pontiac' by Swedish Gerry JOHANSSON' shows a desolate American industrial landscape as a result of the financial crisis and as the third and final part of the series that began with 'Kvidinge' and continued with 'Ulan Bator'

This 13-volumes collection on the work of Swiss photographer Jakob TUGGENER, 'Books and Films' contains facsimile editions of the first twelve original book dummies from the years 1936 to 1982 as well as a selection of his 16 mm short films on DVD.

Out-of-print English reissue of 'The Decisive Moment' by Henri CARTIER-BRESSON as meticulous facsimile of the original. It comes with an additional booklet containing an essay on the history of the famous volume by Centre Pompidou curator Clément Chéroux.

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 31 x 31 x 4 cm., 312 pp., 200 b/w ills., 2,900 gr., Dutch

SIGNED COPY. In his 2nd photo volume 'Keine Experimente', Dirk ALVERMANN takes a critical and mocking stance on the period of the economic miracle as well as the Nazi past. The b/w photographs were taken between 1956 and 1961 in Berlin and the Rhineland.

Gebunden, mit Schutzumschlag, 24,5 x 28 x 4 cm., 352 S., mehr als 460 Abb., deutsch-sprachig - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

In 'Go-Sees. Girls Knocking on My Door', Juergen TELLER questions fashion industry and the world of models. Shot in the different lights of the changing seasons, but always at the entrance to his studio, the portraits seem to merge into a single image.

For 'Holy Bible', BROOMBERG & CHANARIN show photos of Archive of Modern Conflict with an eye toward Adi Ophir's tenet: that God reveals Himself through catastrophe, and power structures from the Bible correlate with those of modern systems of governance.

The book 'Showcaller' explores the work of Talia CHETRIT which is filled with a desire to control the physical and historical limits of the camera, to pursue its potential for manipulation, and to question the relationship between photographer and subject

For his out-of-print book 'Behind the Block', Tobias ZIELONY visited the peripheries of modern cities such as Halle, Marseille & Bristol to explore the youth culture there in 'subcultural melting pots' and special zones of urban civilization at eye level.

Handmade HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 1,000 pp.,

Gebundene Ausgabe (hier: ohne Schutzumschlag) 20 x 25 x 2 cm., 271 S., S/W-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - TEXT ONLY IN GERMAN!

Crossfading of human bodies in the karst coastal landscape of the Crimean peninsula. The protagonists were taken from contemporary history & the present. MIKHAILOV reproduces here the history of photographic image production in resolution and form finding

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.

With b/w works by Antoine D'AGATA, Trent PARKE, Anders PETERSEN, Roger BALLEN, Jacob Aue SOBOL, Keizo KITAJIMA, Kim THUE, Marco VERNASCHI, Margaret M. DE LANGE, Michael ACKERMAN, Olivier PIN FAT, Giancarlo CERAUDO and Daisuke YOKOTA

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

18x linen bound HC with dust jackets (mostly), each book: 18,5 x 24 cm. (9,5 x 7 in.), with duotone b/w &/or color ills., text langiage: English

Stitch bound HC with dust jacket, 30 x 23 x 2 cm., 144 pp., more than 120 color & b/w ills., bilingual text: German / English

The out-of-print photo book 'Belgian Autumn' by Jan ROSSEEL is the personal search for the perpetrators of a series of violent and bloody raids on Belgian supermarkets in which his father died. However, the 'Gang of Nivelles' responsible was never caught.

The out-of-print photo book 'As Dust Alights' by Vincent DELBROUCK represents part #1 of The Himalayan Project. He created this artist book out of various installations, subjectively addressing the city of Kathmandu as well as the nature of the Himalayas.

'Poppy. Trails of Afghan Heroin 'by Dutch Robert KNOTH and Antoinette de JONG, traces the heroin journey, which leads from Afghanistan via Central Asia, Russia and the Balkans to East Africa, Dubai and Western Europe and gets lost in the streets of London

Out-of-print photo volume 'Novemberrejse' by Krass CLEMENT consists of almost 80 b/w photographs showing life in a small Danish town. Every now and then the Danish photographer chooses unexpected angles and portrays some people from the shortest distance.

Held back for 30 years, ambitious photo book 'Whatever You Say, Say Nothing' by Magnum photographer Gilles PERESS takes the language of documentary photography to the extreme and then asks the reader to pause and solve the riddle of meaning for themselves

The out-of-print volume 'Bazan Cuba' by Italian photographer Ernesto BAZAN is a documentation of life on the isolated island ruled by Fidel Castro. The photographs were taken between 1992 and 2006. It is the first volume of a planned photo book trilogy.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued BUT in a bag), 24 x 32 x 1 cm. (9,4x12,6"), 40 pp., 10 color ills., English. +PRINT (approx. 22 x 28 cm.) Ltd. to 50 numbered copies

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 15 x 20 cm., 190 pp., highly illustrated, English

Ringbinded carton, 19 x 24 cm., 68 pp., approx. 24 color ills., Ltd. to 100 copies, bilingual text: Spanish / English

Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 16,5 x 24 x 1,5 cm., 200 S., 40 S/W-Aufnahmen (+9 grün eingefäbte Seiten) sowie 25 Farbaufnahmen, deutsch-sprachuger Text - HERE GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

Signed new edition. Paul GRAHAM's photo volume set 'A Shimmer of Possibility' is considered one of the defining photo books of the 21st century and was awarded the Paris Photo-Aperture Prize for the most important photo book of the last 15 years.

This 'Special Edition Catalogue' is the first collection world-wide to feature each of the 18 series in Thomas RUFF's extensive portfolio. One of the special points about this collection is the use of different paper grades for the five included books.

In 'Diary' Boris MIKHAILOV tells about his life: Historical, but above all private memories in notes, colorings, crossings out, scratches, stains & photo fixing adhesive strips. A poignant chronicle, often ruthless and cynical, carried by the love of life

1st print run, HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 19,5 x 26 x 4 cm., 560 pp., color & b/w ills., text language: french - TEXT ONLY IN FRENCH !

This photo volume set 'Seven Stories' by Robert FRANK is a collection of small volumes that represents a new stage in his practice. As always, his photographs and stories relate to life and milieu: houses in Mabou and New York or trips to China and Spain.

This long out-of-print monograph by Andreas GURSKY includes the artist's best-known works as well as new works unpublished until 2018. Essays provide new insights into key images - an indispensable survey of one of the world's most influential artists.

The out-of-print photographic volume 'Japan' by prominent British photographer Michael KENNA is the result of intensive travels to Japan. Printed in Triton, the volume has a red cloth cover and is also surrounded by a Japanese folding slipcase.

This photo book contains the famous photo series, which is one of the classics of German industrial photography. As one of the most important representatives of 'fotoform' group KEETMAN created, due to their detailed composition, almost abstract pictures.

Long out-of-print photo volume 'Bag Saga Blok' by Danish Krass CLEMENT, is a neighborhood portrait spanning over five decades around an old movie theater in Copenhagen's Vesterbro neighborhood - presented with an impressive range of photographic styles.

This book, 'Paris Carnet de Recherche' by Danish photographer Krass CLEMENT, presents his very personal view of Paris in the 1960s and 70s - in great b&w shots evoking a melancholic mood of a very well produced photo book, unfortunately out of print!

'Negatives are Stored' by Vladyslav KRASNOSHCHOK is an object of a wooden box with 53 colored reproductions of cabinet portraits and business cards. The originals are from Kharkov, initially the photographer only wanted to save them from their destruction

2nd pritn run, cloth covered HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 144 pp., approx. 200 color ills.,

The catalog volume 'Arbeit / Work' accompanied the major Chris KILLIP retrospective exhibition 'Arbeit/Work. Photographs from 1969-2005'. It included early portraits for the first time and also included the projects made in Ireland and on the Isle of Man

'Ludwig Wittgenstein. Photography as Analytical Practice' contains his album, photographs of automata, and other self-portraits. In addition, the book places his photographs in a dialogue with the photographic practice and theory of contemporary artists.

Out-of-print catalog volume, 'Rineke DIJKSTRA. Wo Men' was published to coincide with the exhibition and award ceremony of the Hasselblad Award 2017. It was designed by the Dutch (photo) book designer Irma BOOM, who has won several awards for her work.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 21,5 x 34 x 1,5 cm., 168 pp., 62 ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 750 copies (+150 A.P.E.-copies)

The black and white images in the out-of-print photographic volume 'ON' by Irish photographer Eamonn DOYLE consist of a collection of street portraits from Dublin city center. The people are mostly photographed from the front and from a lower angle.

In his book trilogy consisting of 'A1. The Great North Road', 'Beyond Caring' as well as 'Troubled Land' - Paul GRAHAM documents life in the United Kingdom during the 1980s. This series established and him as an important voice in contemporary photography

'Photographs', published to accompany the Alberto GARCÍA-ALIX retrospective, contains B&W photographs from 1975 to 1997. In addition to included chronology, bibliography, and a selection of critical texts, it is supplemented by a series of reflections.

'Here Far Away. Photographs 1964-2011' presents a comprehensive retrospective of the work of photographer Pentti SAMMALAHTI. It takes its viewers from his native Scandinavia through the Soviet republics & Siberia, Europe & Great Britain, Asia & Africa.

In his out-of-print photo book 'Deutschland', Gerry JOHANSSON explains German history through its landscape, industrial scenes and buildings, residential streets and store fronts. Here ends the series of books for which he spent eighteen years traveling.

Special ed. in handmade slipcase with signed & numb. archival inkjet print. Edition of 20, 36,5 x 29 cm., 88 pp., 42 color ills., text language: English

SIGNED COPY! The out-of-print photo book 'Lebensmittel' (Food) by Michael SCHMIDT documents the industrialization in food production. The volume consisting of B/W & color photographs was the last publication on which he still worked until its completion.

The out-of-print photo book 'From Where There Is No Return' on the work of Alberto GARCÍA-ALIX reproduces over 250 images that compose the ambitious project on which the Spanish photographer has been working for several years in Madrid, Paris and Beijing.

This set includes all three different designs and book formats of the 'No more no less' photo book project which has been iniciated by Thomas SAUVIN and Kensuke KOIKE. The base was a found manuscript with pictures about the work with portrait photography.

Strictly limited photo & text publication 'La Nuit Épuisée' is a 12-part set, each consisting of 12 pages. The leporellos contain the texts of the eleven authors who took part in this project, as well as photographs by Magnum photographer Antoine D'AGATA.

'Das Auge der Liebe' (The Eye of Love) by René GROEBLI owes its existence to a belated honeymoon. Sparsely furnished rooms, mirrors, beds, window views, wine, cigarettes - and his wife Rita. A love poem and a book for lovers, longing, seeking, desperate.

In 2017 dutch photographer Bastiaan WOUDT visited and succeeded admirably in connecting with the people of Mukono. The result is a wide-ranging collection of remarkable monochrome portraits, alongside some surreal impressions of the local landscape.

'A New Map of Italy' by Guido GUIDI focuses on spontaneous suburban architecture in order to draw a complex and layered portrait. Picture by picture the illusions of a 'Bella Italia' give way to the other, more precarious, more realistic face of Italy.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 30,5 x 24,5 x 2 cm., 120 pp., 150 color ills., text language: English

Out-of-print book 'Hattfabriken' by Gerry JOHANSSON documents the architectural details of the building by Erich Mendelsohn as well as more buildings that reflect the history of the factory and the turbulent political periods from the 1920s to the present

'Nová Evropa' by Christian KASNERS deals with the society of Czech Republic, which oscillates between the idea of a united Europe and anti-European populism. On billboards the photographer searches for manifestations of the ideological & political ideas.

In 'Temptation of Life' by Boris MIKHAILOV, older images enter into a dialogue with those from 2017, taken in a Soviet-era Kiev crematorium, as well as in decaying corners of Eastern & Western European cities and in bedrooms and hospitals, and night bars.

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 22 x 28 x 1,5 cm., 72 pp., 31 color ills., 950 gr., no text

The US report in out-of-print book 'Heartland' by Thomas HOEPKER is a prime example of committed photojournalism personally interpreted, of photography as reportage at the highest level of formal aestheticism. Photo history and at the same time up to date

Out-of-print 'A World in Ruins. Vienna 1945-1948' by Ernst HAAS tells history as a psychic collage. The images of the deep depression in the rubble of bombed-out history contrast with the optimistic awakening. A little-documented part of Austria's history

Slipcased set of 1 embossed HC (no dust jacket, as issued, 14 x 19,5 cm., 96 pp. + 24-pp. text booklet, b/w ills., text language: English) PLUS + a portfolio with 5 prints (shown in the gallery bellow), Ltd. to 20 copies - Also available and to pre-order

'She dances on Jackson' by Vanessa WINSHIP is the result of travelings across the United States - from California to Virginia, from New Mexico to Montana - always in search of the 'American Dream'. It contains her typical portraits & landscape photographs

Out-of-print 'Berlin' by Raymond DEPARDON contains images, made between 1961 and 2013: the construction of the Berlin Wall, the arrival of Robert Kennedy / Queen Elisabeth, the fall of the Wall, and the reconstruction of two sides of an abandoned frontier

Limited edition photo book 'Bike Kill' shows life in a Brooklyn bike club. The French Julie GLASSBERG spent three years documenting the world of the Black Label Bike Club. The title refers to an annual celebration of bike chopping, friendship and anarchy.

The catalog title 'Indstillinger', means both on the camera setting and the personal attitude of Danish photographer Krass CLEMENT. We see works from several known books: Roskilde, Faergen, Novemberrejse and there are also many unknown photos to discover.

The out-of-print photographic volume 'Story/No Story' by Tobias ZIELONY provides an overview of his work since 2000, which has mainly been taken in social hotspots in Bristol, Halle-Neustadt, Marseille, South Los Angelesas well as in Winnipeg, Canada.

'Roxane' represents the visual journal of the photographer Viviane SASSEN. The book shows a series of intimate portraits of her muse named Roxane, whose body and expressions follow the artist's instructions in various poses and moods.

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.

SC with loose dust jacket & photograph, 17 x 24 cm., 120 pp. (+6 pp. insert), Ltd. to 500 copies

Out-of-print double photo volume on the work of German photographer Axel HÜTTE accompanied his exhibitions 'Night and Day', with works created between 1995 and 2017, and 'Frühwerk', which focused on his early work with photos taken between 1978 and 1995.

HC, 17 x 21 cm., 88 pp., 42 ills. (14 color & 28 b/w), Ltd. to 350 copies

In the 1970s and 1980s, Italian photographer Luigi GHIRRI pursued a project characterized by empathy for the changing everyday spaces of his time. During his short career he created a large number of color photographs as well as influential essays.

Laia ABRIL has been working on projects dealing with the so-called 'world epidemic of eating disorders' since 2010. The volume 'The Epilogue' tells the story of the Robinson family and the consequences of the loss of their 26-year-old daughter to bulimia.

'The Island of the Color Blind' by Sanne de WILDE documents a hereditary disease of people in Micronesia. The image selection obscures or emphasizes their eyes, faces and their way of seeing - the viewer is led into a dream world of colorful possibilities

SC (no dust jacket, as issued), 14 x 20 cm., 64 pp., color illustrated in risograph quadtone printing., English, Ltd. to 250 copies

The out-of-print photo volume 'Carlo Mollino: Polaroids' contains a selection of Polaroids from the 1960s and 1970s. These are eroticized images of women, but the subject is not sex. The images were composed and staged to conquer nature with artificiality

The book 'American Winter' by Gerry JOHANSSON shows half-empty cities across the U.S., with as much beauty as misery in snow-covered landscapes: a lonely church floating in a dappled sea of white, or bare trees lining endless highways tending to nothing.

In addition to works selected by Eva BESNYÖ herself, the out-of-print volume contains previously never shown works with motifs from Budapest, Berlin, Brussels, Paris, Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Milan with attention to light, shadow, cropping and line play.

For his out-of-print volume 'How Terry likes his Coffee', Florian van ROEKEL was looking for the invisible barriers and the will to break them. He argues that office culture and our society as a whole are preoccupied with a rational mode of interpretation

'Die Amerikaner' is the German edition of this work that looked at the Americans from a new perspective and which revolutionized the aesthetics of the photo book. It was first published in 2008, on the occasion of the anniversary of the French original.

'The Disappeared' by ambitous photo book editor contains portraits of people who disappeared in Argentina. It is a political bond that wants to keep the memory of these people alive. Printed on thin paper, it is primarily an inexpensive photo book item.

In his ongoing 'City Diary' project, Anders PETERSEN - awarded with the Dr.-Erich-Salomon-Award, DGPh - examines the less public side of urban life, in volumes #1 to #3, he photographed such different cities like Stockholm, Tokyo as well as St. Petersburg

The volume 'Höfe' by Bernhard FUCHS shows farms in the area around Helfenberg (Austria) that have been passed down from generation to generation. They are scattered in the hilly landscape of the Mühlviertel, where the climate is harsh and the soil barren.

In his photo book 'Wrong', Asger CARLSEN looks past reality to a parallel existence. It is based on a true story and offers a haunting and disturbing perspective on the everyday. Absurdity & distortion present a satirical travesty of photographic culture.

Pb. 23 x 30 x 2,5 cm., 240 pp., color ills., bilingual text: Dutch / English

The focus of the catalog illuminating the early phase of the BECHER school is on the mutual influences between the image concepts emerging in Düsseldorf and the innovations of the 'New-Color Photography' and the 'New Topographics' movement in the U.S..