French photographer

'Too Much But Not Enough' is an avant-garde fashion project by Yang LI & Antoine D'AGATA, consisting of 23 LP album covers & booklets, Intimate texts touch on themes of self-knowledge & beauty, love & disillusion, personal freedom & social constraint.

This chronologically arranged monograph on the work of Eugène ATGET shows a photograph and includes the commentary of the editor, John Szarkowski. However, it is less about an exact analysis than about capturing the context and describing the attributes.

The accordion volume 'New York 1989-93', is the first in a series of twelve volumes that are intended to make the person Antoine D'AGATA, a hypothetical double, tangible. Two coupled existences, where one cannot exist without the virtuality of the other.

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.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 28 x 1,5 cm., 96 pp., 110 color ills., bilingual text: German / English

Bilingual catalog volume. This slim photo publication about Eugéne ATGET is catalog number 4 of the Cologne-based gallery Rudolf Kicken, which was published on the occasion of the sales exhibition.

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 26 x 2 cm., 91 pp., 46 b/w ills., text language: English. Ltd. ed. to 600 copies

HC with gold-colored edge, 13,5 x 19 x 3 cm., 368 pp., 200 color ills., text language: french, 750 gr. - TEXT ONLY IN FRENCH!

The out-of-print photographic book 'From Craft to Art' contains some 100 original prints by Robert DOISNEAU, as well as a new version of anessay, which explores the ability to capture 'the luminous melancholy that separates the individual from the mass'.

In 'Conversations', Rémi Coignet explores in interviews the question of what role the photo book plays in the work of photographers, designers & publishers and how their titles are conceived. Two more volumes with interviews have been published until now.

'Flaneur durch das nächtliche Paris' concentrates BRASSAI's 1930s night images. Located between reportage, social documentation & poetic vision, his nocturnal Paris from the interwar period is above all a milestone in the history of younger photography.

Leather imitating bounded HC (no dust jacket, as issued), approx. 25 x 29 x 2,5 cm., approx 120 pp., approx. 98 color & b/w ills., bilingual text: French / English, Ltd. to 400 numbered 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.

SC (no dust jacket, as issued), 18 x 21,5 x 2,5 cm., 226 pp., some b/w ills. between the English text

The b/w illustrated book 'Soviet Union. Henri Cartier-Bresson's photographic notes' contains scenes from everyday life and the world of work in factories, shops & offices in Leningrad, Moscow, USSR, Estonia, Caucasus & Central Asia - geographically sorted

The out-of-print photo book 'Mein Paris' with photographs by Robert DOISNEAU is a book about Paris. 600 images are arranged like walks through the city and time: along the Seine, around the Eiffel Tower, through the gardens and parks, and into the suburbs

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

This volume, 'Double Orbit' by Grégoire PUJADE-LAURAINE, shows the everyday urban environment. However, his pictures read in their composition like a set of tarot cards, they become open-ended allegories, whose meaning is only revealed in the combination.

The birds of French photographer Bernard PLOSSU in this volume of 'Des Oiseaux' series sometimes seem very familiar. And when they play with their wings spread out with the winds whistling in the air, they awaken in us the wish that we humans could fly.

In 'Zuerst das Leben' Willy RONIS documents a modern socialism, ignoring the problems of the system. These are pictures about everyday life in the GDR, which - detached from the context of the Cold War - unfold their full stylistic and aesthetic effect.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued),  21 x 25,5 cm., 160 pp., 119 color ills., bilingual texts: French / English

HC with dust jacket, 18,5 x 24 x 2,5 cm. (9,5 x 7 in.), 160 pp., 120 duotone b/w ills., English

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

3rd print run, linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 23,5 x 28,5 x 1,5 cm., 80 pp., text language: English

Five volumes, HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 30 x 21 cm., 64 pp., 60 b&w ills. per vol., text language: English

'A Perpetual Season' by Gregoire PUJADE-LAURAINE lays a trail through a dreamlike city, offering glimpses into a network of spaces that emerge as silent witnesses to a forgotten order. Recurring forms & confused people punctuate this with an elegiac tone.

Broschierte Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 13 x 20,5 x 2,5 cm., 312 S., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

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.

Newspaper format, 29 x 38 x 0,6 cm., 16 pp., color ills., English, Ltd to 50 copies

Jacques Henri LARTIGUE is best known for his b/w photographs. The out-of-print photo volume 'Das Leben ist bunt' (Life is Colorful), with its profound evaluations of his diaries and albums why it was long overdue to discover his color photographs as well.

Pb., 29,5 x 42 x 1 cm., 28 pp., 18 color ills., French, Ltd. to 300 copies

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

Open spined, handmade HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 18 x 24 x 2 cm., 130 pp., color ills., bilingual text: French / English, Ltd. to ONLY 63 numbered copies

The catalog, edited by art historian Cécile Bargues traces how HAUSMANN comprehensively reflected photography in this intensive decade and developed a highly individual practice, both documentarily and lyrically, inextricably linked to his thinking & life

SC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 29 cm., 10 pp., bilingual text: Japanese / English

In 'Looking for the Masters in Ricardo's Golden shoes' by Catherine BALET, Ricardo's golden shoes travel from one world to another, starting from a self-portrait from 1839, tracing a considered and thoughtful path through 176 years of photography history.

With photo works by Roger FENTON, Robert CAPA, Lewis HINE, Larry BURROWS, James NACHTWEY, Mary Ellen MARK, Sebastian SALGADO, Frank HURLEY and many more

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 18,5 cm., 96 pp., 77 duotone b/w ills., bilingual text: French / English

The third volume in the series 'Conversations' by Remi Coignet also contains interviews with participants from the international photo scene on the role of the photo book in the work of photographers, designers & publishers, as well as their book design.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), approx. 24 x 32 cm., 128 pp., approx. 80 color ills., bilingual text: English / French Available soon ISBN 978-3-86828-924-4 2019 Artist: Ann Massal Design: João Linneu

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.

'Cidade de Pedra' by Antoine D'AGATA is the most comprehensive document about a time when he spent time in Cracolandia, the crack neighborhoods of São Paulo & Salvador - doubtless the roughest areas of Brazil. An unfinished diary of fragile interactions.

In this photo book on the war in former Yugoslavia, Gilles PERESS meticulously examines the massacres at Srebrenica and Vukovar. The shockingly factual photographs show the forensic team and what they discovered, 'Graves' is a passionate plea for justice.

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

In the photo book 'Ruins of Detroit', photographers Yves MARCHAND & Romain MEFFRE use structures that were once a source of civic pride to show the decline of the auto city of Detroit, which was harder hit economically than any other major American city.

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

Linen bound HC with dust jacket, 23 x 30 cm., 88 pp., 73 ills., text language: English

The self-published photo volume 'Chapitre 2 - Claudine. A story about family, hoarding, love and loneliness' by Ariane TOUSSAINT is about great-aunt Claudine, a hoarder, old and frail. Life & home depend on the delicate balance between love and loneliness

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.

Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 255 S., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEX ONLY!

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 17 x 24 x 1,5 cm., 160 pp., b/w & color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 600 copies

The out-of-print photo and text volume, 'Berenice Abbott. Eugène Atget' by Clark Worswick describes the American photographer ABBOTT's vision of the French photographer ATGET, who single-handedly changed photographic modernism in the twentieth century.

by Betrand Lemoine. 2016. Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 26 x 37 x 2 cm., 168 pp., 33 photographs, 4.300 drawings, multilingual text: German / English / French / Italian

'Kinderszenen' by Lionel JUSSERET tries to give an insight into the intimacy of autistic children, their way of understanding space and the world. In its conception it's based on the piano work of Robert Schumann, conceived as a 'souvenir for adults'.

French photographer David NISSEN's self-published volume 'Out of the Darkness' follows a mysterious rhythm. The black and white photos create a loneliness of light and its shadows. The slim photo volume in a small print run of 300 copies is really a gem.

The up to then little researched early work by Henri CARTIER-BRESSON from the 1930s was the subject of an exhibition at MoMA in New York in 1987. The volume of the catalog with a well-founded text by Peter Galassi is still regarded as authoritative today.

This out-of-print photographic volume 'Unknown Halsman' reveals the playful, whimsical side of French Magnum photographer Philippe HALSMAN. It captures not only his character, but also the essence of the time. The monograph is colorful & vividly designed.

'Eugène Atget. Retrospective', published for the major exhibitions in Paris & Berlin, contains the most important photographs created between 1900 and 1925. Essays trace his wide range of themes and motifs as well as his impact on the French Surrealists.

In 'Budapest Courtyards' French photographers Yves MARCHAND & Romain MEFFRE document this systematically and create a typology that describes the special form of collective living and reflects the turbulent history of the city and its changing politics.

HC, 23,8 x 32 cm., 288 pp., approx. 280 b/w & color ills., bilingual introduction: English / French - ONLY FRENCH TEXT!

The out-of-print photographic volume 'Philippe Halsman. Retrospective' contains the best of his brilliant work. Here are his famous (Einstein, Dalí, Monroe) portraits, his testimonies to his fascination with surrealism, and his 'Jumpology' photos.

Leporello book, 18 x 24 x 2 cm. (7,5 m. Länge), 40 pp., 38 ills., 300 gr., bilingual: English / French, Ltd. to 300 copies

HC (without dust jacket, as issued), 19,5 x 29 cm., 148 pp., 120 color ills.,

by Matz / Vollmer. Huge presentation box, within ONE book (HC, 24 x 29 cm., 392 pp., 440 color ills., German) + ONE OF THREE Digital-PhotoPrints from analog negativ (29 x 42 cm.) - Ltd. to 250 copies! Greven Verlag, 2014.

'Eugène Atget - Paris' - third volume of a series dedicated to those great masters in the history of photography, whose photographs have lost nothing of their fascination & influence to this day. The hardcover volume has been out of print for a long time.

The out-of-print catalog illuminates more than 60 years of French photographer Willy RONIS' long career and covers all thematic aspects of his work. Shown is a sharp & sensitive observer of everyday French life, a great humanist & chronicler of a century.

This book is a thoughtful guide for photographers through today’s complex landscape of images, with the ultimate goal of understanding how to make images that matter: Understanding Photographs, Making Photographs, and Moving in Pursuit of Unique.

HC (without dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 21,5 cm., 176 pp., b/w ills., English, Ltd. to 500 copies

Paper-bound HC with tip-in photograph, 24,5 x 31,5 cm., color & b/w ills., text language:

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 25 x 26 x 2 cm., 108 pp., 54 color ills., Ltd. to 500 copies

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.

Out-of-print book 'Manhattan Out' by Raymond DEPARDON contains street photography from NYC. Taken in 1980 during a visit without any particular intention, he later became aware of them because of the looks of his motifs, which show a feigned indifference.

HC, 25 x 39 cm., 96 pp., 57 bw-ills., Ltd. ed. to 500 copies

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 28 x 28 x 2 cm., 144 pp., 71 color ills., bilingual text: French / English

Pb., 15 x 22 cm., 128 pp., 100 ills., text language: French, Ltd. to 500 copies!

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 14 x 23 x 2 cm., 260 pp., some b/w ills., text language: English

This book runs completely under the radar; for me it belongs in every good sorted photo journalistic library. While researches for a new image motif in art/photography of the early 20th century the editor collected interesting, often unknown material.

Pb. in japanese binding, 20 x 27 cm., 40 pp, 17 color ills., text language: French, Ltd. to 500 copies

Swiss bound HC (illustrated linen) with ONE C-type print (13 x 18 cm. no dust jacket, as issued), 128 pp., color ills., no text (book details in English), Ltd. to 300 copies

Broschierte Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 21 x 28 x 1,5 cm., 148 pp., b/w ills., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

Pb. with dust jacket, 12,5 x 19 cm., 108 pp., highly illustrated, English, Ltd. to 500 copies

The photo volume 'Odysseia' by Antoine D'AGATA deals with the undignified migration practices of European governments. It contains depressing photos and images from videos, as well as statistical data and texts by Bruno Le Dantec and Rafael Garido.

For 'Talashi' Alexis CORDESSE has spent three years in France, Germany as well as Turkey collecting personal images of people who have fled Syria. At the intersection of intimacy and history, this photo volume deals with the circulation of imagesin exils.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 24 cm., 144 pp., color ills., bilingual text: German / English

For his out-of-print volume 'Ladakh', Raphael GAILLARDE documented the magnificent mountains and the everyday life of the residents. Until then, the Tibetan tradition had remained largely untouched in the plateaux between the Himalayas and the Karakorum.

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.

Pb., 20 x 26 x 1 cm., 96 pp., color ills., no text

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 30,5 cm.(9,5 x 12 inch.), 375 pp., color & b/w ills., ilingual text: French / English

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 28 x 2 cm., 80 pp., color ills., bilingual: French / English (8 pp. booklet), Ltd. to 600 copies

Vol.1 of late 1970s book series 'Photo-Galerie. Die Bibliothek berühmter Photographern' (The Library of Famous Photographers) is dedicated to the work of Jacques-Henri LARTIGUE, whose early sports photographs represent the fascination of an era for speed.

The book 'Old Paris and Changing New York: Photographs by Eugène Atget and Berenice Abbott' by Kevin Moore offers an insightful new look at two famous photographers, their interconnected legacies, and the important documents of urban change they created.

Photo book 'The Secret Paris of the 30's' by BRASSAI is one of the most impressive photographic memories ever published. He reveals a milieu that was previously only known through books such as Henry Miller's novels (often his companion on nightly forays)

German-language catalog 'Nature as Art. Landscape in the 19th Century in Painting and Photography' emphasizes significance and mutual influences between painting and photography in the perception of landscape in works by French, English & Italian artists.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 29 x 22 x 3 cm., 280 pp., b/w & color ills., text language: English. Steidl, 2007.