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For nearly two decades, Harry CALLAHAN photographed his wife in countless ways: nude & clothed, on the beach, in the woods, in public parks & on city streets, and in the privacy of the family home. 'Eleanor' is the definitive publication of these photos.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 17 x 23 cm., 112 pp., 101 color ills., text language: English

'Family Car Trouble' plays with the form of the novel, both material and narrative, to illustrate the inner workings of the photographer. The recordings document arrival and departure as well as the maintenance of a difficult 1993 Volvo 940 station wagon.

German photographer and father Oliver RASCHKE is grateful to have had the opportunity to experience and document his family life. His volume 'The World Ain't Enough' represents the first 10 years of his sons' lives. Time is racing. The conquest continues.

Richly illustrated compendium with many readable and interesting essays. The extensive field of amateur or commercial photography is examined: pictures that were created for bureaucracy, commerce & for personal commemoration - in contrast to artistic use.

For the photo volume 'At Home', Susan KANDEL looked for families who would allow themselves to be photographed at home and succeeded in being invited into many private homes. As a result, she discovered that each house she entered was a world of its own.

'Here and Home', a comprehensive overview on the work by Larry SULTAN accompanied a large retrospective with the major series 'Evidence', 'Pictures from Home', 'The Valley' and 'Homeland'. It includes also early works as well as his writings & interviews.

The winner of the First Book Award 2014 includes staged family photos. 'FROWST' refers to Bert Hellinger’s therapeutic method 'Family Constellations'; the title' takes up the paradoxical nature of the family: Frowsty rooms are both cozy and claustrophobic

Mortality and the slow dissolution of late age are the main theme in the photo book 'Mother' as well as another aspect: If we fluctuate between life and death, the roles of child and parent become observers, the created becomes the creator.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 18 x 24 x 1,5 cm., 112 pp., 83 b/w duplex ills., bilingual text: French / English

In the book 'Over Time: Conversations about Documents and Dreams', Alessandra SANGUINETTI reflects with her cousins on the 'The Adventures of Guille and Belinda' series and its development. The in-depth conversation is illustrated with unpublished images

Out-of-print volume 'Portraits' presents more than 300 images of musicians, writers, artists Lee FRIEDLANDER has encountered over four decades. They show celebrities in private spaces, captured in living rooms & kitchens, in conversation or in an embrace.

In her photo volume 'Summer Heart', Cologne based photographer Thekla EHLING accompanies the growing up of her own children. She documents situations and moods and the viewer finds himself entangled in associations and memories of his own childhood.

In this book Dotan SAGUY documents the ten-month stay of a family who immigrated from Brazil to the USA and their alternative lifestyle in Los Angeles. The book remembers on Sally MANN's 'Immediate Family', b/w photographs are accompanied by interviews.

In 'Tween' Oliver RASCHKA accompanies his sons through the labyrinth of the 'tween' years. He fills a gap in contemporary photographic art. From Käthe BUCHLER to Sally MANN and Katharina BOSSE, the view of one's own children has been dominated by women.

Pb. in plastic bag, 17 x 22,5 cm., 40 pp., approx. 42 color ills., no text, Ltd. to 250 copies

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), japanese apper, 24 x 21,5 x 1,5 cm., 112 pp., 65 tritone b/w ills., text language: English

The volume 'You can call me Nan' by Will HARRIS is a personal yet universal family memoir. We meet his grandmother, who suffered from dementia in the last years of her life. The photographer, once her grandson, became an old friend and created this work.

Out-of-print 'Rewind' by Nina KORHONEN is the last part of a book trilogy. Self-portraits and family scenes merge into a highly emotional image that draws its power from subtle moments of emotion that evoke associations with love, death, joy and suffering

The book 'Pictures From Home' by Larry SULTAN as a reissue of the title documenting his repeated return to his childhood home. For this, Super 8 films were newly digitized as well as everyday footage juxtaposed with the 'American Dream' of the Reagan era.

In 'Joke,' Talia CHETRIT calmly tackles themes of life, death, and birth through a variety of visual languages. Using a wide range of photographic tropes & traditions, she explores the power dynamics between photographer / subject that interfere & collide

The photo volume 'Easter and Oak Trees' by Dutch photographer Bertien van MANEN offers an enticing invitation to share a small part of this familial idyll.

The images in the self-published volume 'da denk ich, dass ich fliegen kann' by Conny HÖFLICH give insight into the parallel world of children and the loss of immediate access. The pictures also tell of this in their ambivalence of closeness and distance.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 20,5 x 27,5 x 1 cm., 44 pp., 23 color & b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 100 numbered copies

Open spine pb., 23,5 x 32 x 1,5 cm., 188 pp. (+ 64 inserted pp., 10,5 x 15 cm.), bilingual textes: French / English

'Unfinished Father' by Erik KESSELS is the photographic documentation of a car construction project of his father, which remained unfinished because the father died over it. The volume symbolizes the image that the son has made of his very active father.

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.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 30 x 24 cm., 96 pp., 50 color ills., text language: English

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24,5 x 20,5 cm., 96 pp., 83 b/w ills., text language:: English

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

The volume 'Leben und Tod' (Life and Death) contains object images by Nobuyoshi ARAKI, inspired by same named series by German photographer Juergen TELLER. The photos are haunting yet playful, creating a fascinating narrative alongside the original story.

The limited edition photographic volume 'HAUS HOF LAND' by the photographer Brigitte BAUER, who lives in the south of France, contains color photographs of her German homeland from 1987 to 2017.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 22 x 24,5 x 1,5 cm., 124 pp., 28 duotone b/w & 38 color ills., text language: English

HC, 25 x 30,5 cm., 206 pp., text language: English

Pb. in plastic bag, 17 x 22,5 cm., 40 pp., approx. 42 color ills., no text, Ltd. to 500 copies

In 'Gülistan' Lukas BIRK tells the story of Kenan & Filiz from Istanbul, who celebrated their lives in the city's best establishments in the 1960s and 1970s. The basis for the graphic design of the volume was the photo service offered in the institutions.

In her photo volume 'Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light' Anna Maria Antonette D'ADDARIO works in beautifully interwoven visual metaphors the tragic death of a beloved sibling and the intensity of extreme personal loss and family trauma.

The out-of-print book 'Photographs' by US photographer Emmet GOWIN contains sixty-eight black and white images taken from new scans of old prints. Although his pictures often look like snapshots, he takes photographs that are more than just family photos.

The out-of-print photographic volume 'Ima' by Japanese photographer Jin (Hitoshi) OHASHI is a book about birth and the early stages of life, featuring visceral, explicit scenes of birthing, alongside portraits of young children.

For 'Hundert', Olaf UNVERZART returns to his Upper Palatinate home to portray the one hundredth year of his grandmother's life. The photographer unfolds the reality of his protagonist's life in intimate close-ups of the centenarian and landscape images.

In 'Dori' Kaamna PATEL tries to link questions about love and family by documenting the relationship of her grandparents, which is eminently important to her. This self published volume was short listed for the Paris Photo Aperture Photobook Award 2021.

2nd printrun (pink cover)! Sewn pamphlet binded Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 20 x 26 x 1 cm., 72 pp., 41 color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 175 copies

The volume 'Kill the Pig' by Masahisa FUKASE brings together two series, first shown in 1961. 'Kill the Pig', was taken in a slaughterhouse in Shibaura, Tokyo. 'Naked' shows the photographer himself and his then partner Yukiyo Kawakami in various poses.

SIGNED COPY! Limited volume 'Under the Apple Tree' by Regina ANZENBERGER shows portraits of family members taken with an analog Rolleiflex. The apple tree is both a real setting anchored in her biography and a place of longing to which there is no return.

'Erna Helena Ania' by Tomasz LACZNY, tells a breathtaking, thoughts provoking story of a mother's love for her daughter, inscribed in the history of the World War II's end and its aftermath, told by a grandson, in whose life its elements sound echo like.

This self-published photo volume 'I can't get through the chaos' by Polish photographer Michal ADAMSKI tells the story of the year he said goodbye to his parents forever. The images, mostly in black & white, show real, tangible death, not his imagination.

This beautifully designed, brocaded large format volume 'Daughters' by Margaret de LANGE brings together for the first time the complete collection of beautiful, award-winning black & white photographs that the mother took of her two growing up daughters.

New Edition of a classic photo volume. Masahisa FUKASE returned home regularly and used the family studio, the large-format 'Anthony View Camera' and the changing family set-up as the basis for the 'Family / Kazoku' series, first published in 1991.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 23,5 x 33,5 x 2 cm., 124 pp., 65 b/w ills., multi-lingual text: English / French / Portuguese

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 20,5 x 24,5 x 1,5 cm., 72 pp., color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 350 copies

In his out-of-print photographic volume 'Tokyo and my Daughter', Takashi HOMMA documents his daughter from toddler to young girl through the everyday places in her life. With an incredible sense of closeness and distance, he creates a very special world.

In his book '22 day in Between', Salih BASHEER collects the few memories he has of his parents, who passed away when he was 3 years old. These memories, seen from a child’s perspective are presented in a mix of images, writing, self-portraits and drawings

Boxed, french binded pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 16,5 x 24 x 1 cm., 80 pp., b/w ills. in four-color printing, text language: English, Ltd. to 500 copies

'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 'The Hero Mother', Peter PUKLUS deconstructs and questions the dynamics of established female and male roles. His exploration breaks down the traditional symbols associated with maternal and paternal figures in a way that is both playful and critical.

The out-of-print volume 'Half Life' by Michael ACKERMAN with images from Poland, Cuba, New York, Berlin and elsewhere, is hard to place. A hallucinated array of images of exile and of phantoms, in which places and people absorb us into the same black aura

Hand sewn pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 21,5 x 28 x 1 cm., 32 pp. (double gatefold page incl.), 62 b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 1,000 copies

Double HC in one sleeve, 22 x 26 x 5 cm., 64 & 76 pp., color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 1,000 copies

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21,5 x 30 x 1,5 cm., 168 pp., color ills., bilingual text: Japanese / English

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), glue binding with fore-edge fold, Japanese binding, 23 x 15 x 1,5 cm., 38 visible pp., duotone b/w ills., English, Ltd. to 800 copies

Published in accordion format, 'This Train' by Justine KURLAND presents two interwoven narratives from the road trips across the USA she took between 2005 and 2010. A limited edition of 1,000 signed copies including a signed & numbered handmade print.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24,5 x 30,5 cm., 104 pp., duotone b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 500 copies

The out-of-print photo volume 'Surrounded by No One' Margaret M. de LANGE, her second book, focuses on loneliness. It is a personal documentation in b/w, both of people close to her and those she has met only briefly, and of the loneliness they encounter.

The artist photo volume 'Für mich' (For Me) by German photographer Sina NIEMEYER is an autobiographical story about sexual abuse. The project was born out of the need to understand and come to terms with what happened to her at a pre-pubescent age.

In discreet and yet intimate photographs, Sibylle FENDT tells in 'Gärtners Reise' a love story of growing apart, finding each other again, and then disappearing. The images are not documents of the trip but symbols for a journey into unknown territory.

HC with dust jacket, 16,5 x 22 cm., 88 pp., 63 color & b/w ills., bilingual text: German / English, Ltd. to 300 copies!

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), approx. 20,5 x 26,5 x 1,5 cm., 72 pp., 36 b/w ills., bilingual text: Finnish / English

The subject in 'Mama & Love' by Hideka TONOMURA is her own mother: her infidelity and her affair. Her intense, intimate visual exploration of her immediate family and her own feelings may not be easy to look at, but it is an unforgettable experience.

In his out-of-print book 'Children', Lee FRIEDLANDER presents more than 300 black-and-white images in two sections. Taken together, the images offer a picture of America's youth through the eyes of one of the most renowned photographers of his generation.

Out-of-print 'Living Room' by Nick WAPLINGTON with ironic, clever color images of friends and neighbors of his grandparents in Nottingham run counter to the typical depiction of blue collar Englanders what he has referred to as downtrodden interpretation.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24,5 x 21,5 x 2,5 cm., 156 pp., 86 color ills, bilingual text: Finnish / English

English Ed., pb., 23 x 29 x 2 cm., 196 pp., color ills., text language: English (also available in French)

Swiss bound pb., 17 x 23 cm., 108 pp., 60 color ills., text language: English

The photo book 'La peau du prénom' (The skin of the first name) by Lyoz BANDIE is the story of the obsessive hunt for a new first name. An intimate and sensitive story, a coming out, a dive between genders that invites to question this social construction

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

HC, 17 x 21 x 1,5 cm., 76 pp., 64 b/w ills., boilingual text: Japanese / English, Ltd. to 600 copies

In 'Some Say Ice', Alessandra SANGUINETTI alludes to the possibility of undoing death through the act of photography, making visible undercurrents of doubt. The book title was inspired by a poem by Robert Frost that deals with the inevitability of death.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 17 x 22 x 0,5 cm., 64 pp., 46 b/w ills., 400 gr., text language: English

In her artists' photo volume 'Delta', Swedish photographer Hannah MODIGH turns the camera to her personal life in her quest to explore existential question regarding the cycles of life. Numbered and signed copy with one C- print.

HC, 22,5 x 26 cm., 88 pp., 82 color ills.

Open binden HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 16,5 x 24 x 1,5 cm., 96 pp., 49 color ills., text language (of the inlet): English (Spanish version also here to order), Ltd. to 500 copies

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 19 x 24,5 x 3 cm., 160 pp., 94 color ills., text: English, Ltd. to 600 copies

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.

English ed. Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 15,5 x 22 x 1 cm., 70 pp. (+ 20 inserted pp. of texts), color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 200 copies

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 17,5 x 24 x 1 cm., 144 pp., 87 color ills., offset, bilingual text: English/Spanish

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.

Re-edit, boxed set of prints, 18 x 13,5 x 5 cm., 242 pp., 119 b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 1,000 copies

78 pictures bettween two cards, hold on one corner, 13,5 x 22 cm., 32 pp., no text, Ltd. to 100 numbered copies

Rinko KAWAUCHI's photo book 'As it is' returns to her earlier photographic focus on her personal universe. The narrative is interrupted by a photo of a kitchen window through which the changing seasons are observed, as well as by short, interspersed texts

With photo works by: Ansel ADAMS, ÁLVAREZ BRAVO, BISCHOF, BOURKE-WHITE, BRANDT, BRUNNER, Robert CAPA, CARTIER-BRESSON, FRANK, GRÖBLI, HAAS, HORVAT, KALISCHER, Dorothea LANGE, SANDER, Gotthard SCHUH, William Eugene SMITH TUGGENER, VISHNIAC among others.

HC, 17 x 24 cm., 216 pp.

In this book, 'Who is Changed and Who is Dead', Ahndraya PARLATO takes the life-changing events of her mother's suicide and the birth of her children as the starting point for a project that explores the contradictory and complex conditions of motherhood.

In 'We Share the Meal' by Lars BORGES, the complex relationship with food is explored through a personal relationship. A fictional journey, because all forms of social coexistence are connected by narratives that not infrequently emerge at dinner table.

Published on the occasion of a retrospective, the out-of-print photo volume 'World from my Front Porch' by American Magnum photographer Larry TOWELL makes a poetic, moving statement about land and belonging, that central theme in his photographic work.

'Stable Vices' by Joanna PIOTROWSKA is an ambitious photo volume that focuses on the concepts of protection, freedom and oppression, crystallizing a spectrum that runs like a thread through the Polish photographer's work and keeps driving her.

A faithful faksimile of the artist book 'Snowflakes Dog Man' by Hajime KIMURA. Three offset printed volumes in a black screen printed and handmade cardboard. The dreamy softness and delicacy of the images is intoxicating and disturbing at the same time.

'Off Duty' by Arnold ODERMATT is an impressive document about the staging of a life in the village world, where a police officer's evening is not private, but civil. So wife, son, daughter wait patiently to annoyed, because a proper picture takes its time