Germany

This version of the book 'EIN-HEIT' (U-NI-TY) is a re-edit. Originally published in 1996, Michael SCHMIDT investigated the question of 'unity', tracing the symbolism & iconography of political systems, their propaganda & the images of people they project.

Gebundene Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 18 x 25 cm., 352 S., S/W-Aufnahmen. deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

With his book with analogue color photographs, 'Enter the Forest', Alexandre Miguel MAIA continues a tradition that sees the forest as a recurring theme in photography. The book was printed on certified recycled paper and produced entirely in Germany.

The 'Picture Book' by Hannah HÖCH contains adventures of mythical creatures in a zoological garden surrounded by flowers and plants. It is a children's book AND an cultural-historical document designed according to the Dadaist principle of photomontage.

HC, 15 x 20 cm., 128 pp., 100 ills., bilingual text: German / ENglish

Robert CAPA is considered to be the founder of photojournalism. His impressive photos of the Spanish Civil War made the passionate opponent of war world over night famous. In addition to most famous works, this portfolio also presents rediscovered images.

This book, 'Fotogeschichten Sülz und Klettenberg. 1855-1985', shows the neighborhoods from the end of 19th century to 1980 and the people who lived and worked here. Images, texts & commentaries make this contribution to Cologne's urban history so valuable

'Fotografien 1980-2010' gives a perfect overview of the photographic work of Hans-Christian SCHINK, including his series around German unity and series created in Asia. The conflict between civilization and nature can be found in almost all his works.

The narrow catalog for the exhibition 'foto-auge' in the Hamburg Deichtorhallen (2002-2003), which has been out of print for a long time, contains a five-page introduction to art history and personal biographical data as well as 28 b / w illustrations.

From its title to its formal arrangement of language, 'Dein Kampf' suggests a commentary on our cyclical anxieties about ideology. Anxiety is implicit in his photographs and Berlin - a city in which several ideologies collided - is their natural backdrop.

Gebundene Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 17 x 24 x 2,5 cm., 300 S., 20 Farb- u. 200 SW-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

'Nachtfahrt. A Taxi Blues' by Josef ŠNOBL shows the happiness & misery of the cab business in poignant pictures, unbelievable events and observations. A unique insight into the phenomenon of the big city between drunks, celebrities and business travelers.

The Anti-War book 'Kriegsfibel' (War primer) by Bertolt Brecht and Ruth Berlau processes press photos from the Second World War. Images of machines and gruesome scenes were given new captions, socialist-realist epigrams to give the scenes a primal meaning

The b/w images by Sibylle BERGEMANN collected in her out-of-print photo book 'Fenster' do not follow any overarching plan, but are an expression of subjective perception. Each with its details captured window says something about the people they belong to

This out-of-print photo volume 'Menschen ohne Maske. Photographien 1906 - 1952' by German photographer August SANDER in paperback format is a re-issue of a 1971 publication, released at Swiss Bucher Verlag.

English or German. Based on Helmar LERSKI's series 'Metamorphosis', this compendium, 'Faces. The power of the face', brings togehter portraits from the time of the Weimar Republic. Experiments, feminist role-playing games and political ideologies collide.

HC 19,5 x 22 cm., 122 pp., b/w ills., bilingual text: English / German

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.

Out-of-print 'Leipzig. Photographs 1956-1959' by Günter BLUTKE shows the saxonian city in the mid-fifties, taking us back to that time and the people living this time of new beginnings, 10 years after the war and before Germany was divided in two states.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued but with Obi belt), 22,5 x 30 x 1,5 cm., 96 pp., color ills., bilingual text: German / English, Ltd. to 300 copies

'Cologne and its photo books. Cologne in the photo book from 1853 to 2010 'by Werner Schäfke shows the city as a large puzzle. Whether published in-house, on behalf of the city or industry, they document the diversity of this old & young Rhine metropolis.

Broschierte Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 264 S. mit 25 ganz- bzw. doppelseitigen S/W-Abb., Bibliographie, Indices, deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

For his volume 'Wall and Peace', Kai WIEDENHÖFER has documented walls and barrier fences all over the world: in Berlin, Belfast, Mexico, Ceuta & Melilla, in Baghdad and the wall on the border line with the West Bank, with the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Egypt.

'Jenny, Jenny' is not documentary: ZIELONY avoids the journalistic impetus for certainty & truth. To him, the authenticity of the subject is as relevant as the question of the objectivity of the documentary image: both are never free of dramatic elements.

Out-of-print volume 'Berlin 1978-1987' by Boris BECKER shows early works of the photographer of the Düsseldorf Photo School, taken on 35mm and medium format. In the course of history and the change of our perception, these have gained in importance.

In 2015, World Press Award winner Peter BIALOBRZESKI returned to his hometown Wolfsburg to document the changes that the city has undergone since he left many years ago. 'Wolfsburg Diary' is part of the ongoing international 'Diary' photo book series.

In 'Workshop. S/W-Fotografie nach dem Zonensystem', Andreas WEIDNER, a representative of fine art photography in the tradition of f/64 group around Ansel ADAMS, Edward WESTON & Imogen CUNNINGHAM, shows its consistent application with large format camera.

Leinengebundener HC (ohne Schutzumschlag),

After projects drawing from archives, Arwed MESSMER turns for 'Clearing the Dephts' to his own archive, which contains many problematic aspects of German history. Previously unpublished images are re-edited and series are set in relation to each other.

The out-of-print photo and text volume 'Fotoreportagen 1956-1965' on the work of Dirk ALVERMANN contains in addition to the black and white photographs an excellent article on his photo books penned by the photo book connoisseur Thomas Wiegand.

German photographer In the photo book '4100 Duisburg' you can see how the photographer Laurenz BERGEual language of silence and light that captures the visible present of places over which history seems to have passed as well as the echoes of former life.

Broschierte Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 12,5 x 20,5 x 1 cm., 112 S., 60 S/W-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

The 1929 self-published publication '50 Years Leonhard Tietz 1879/1929' contains an illustrated description of the company history. At the end of the volume, Werner MANTZ is explicitly named as the author of the artistic black and white recordings.

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.

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.

Aktualisierte Ausgabe, 25 x 34 cm., 400 S., über 550 Abb., deutsch-sprachige Ausgabe - TEXT ONLY IN GERMAN (but you can here also order other editions for the same price!)

Gebundene Ausgabe, 30,5 x 22 x 1,5 cm., 128 S., S/W-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

For years, former BECHER student Candida HÖFER traveled around the world to photograph public and semi-public libraries. The photographic volume 'Libraries. The Return' brings together an essence of past work and juxtaposes it with current images:

The images in 'In einem stillen Land' (In a quiet country) by Roger MELIS bear witness to the skepticism & resignation of the East Germans, but also to their pride, spirit of contradiction & longings - an interior view created after the fall of the GDR.

The photographs of Sebastian MÖLLEKEN in the out-of-print photo book 'Tagebau' shift the sensation of time and size; they show how the landscape shapes the people who live in it - at the same time, the people shape the landscape.

Gebundene Ausgabe, 21 x 30 cm., 268 S., 165 Duoton-S/W & 3 Farb-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

Out-of-print 'Moments in History' focuses on those works Margaret BOURKE-WHITE made in the 1930s and 40s in Czechia, Germany, Italy, the Soviet Union as well as in the UK. It shows photographs and excerpts from letters as well as publications in magazines

HC, 25 x 29 cm., 152 pp., 120 duotone b/w ills., text language: English

The out-of-print photo volume 'Oldschool & Newschool. Two Views of Skateboard Photography' by Barbara WÜLLENWEBER and Alexander BASILE covers two periods in skateboard photography: 1989 and 2002 to 2007. The book includes one print from each of the series

Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 15,5 x 21 x 2 cm., 120 Seiten, S/W-Aufnahmen, deutsch-sprachier Text - TEXT ONLY IN GERMAN, Ltd. to 500 copies

Slipcased HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 30 x 24 x 2 cm., 144 pp., 87 tritone b/w ills. & 15 color ills., bilingual texts: German / English

Out-of-print artist's book, 'Lange Weile' by Tina BARA, contains b/w-mages taken between 1983 and 1989 in East Berlin, the old GDR and other travels. This visual diary captures a moment right before the collapse of an entire political & ideological system

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.

Reissue 2003. Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 28,5 x 19 x 2 cm., 108 S., 78 ganzseitige S/W-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

Open bound pb. (no dust jacket, as issued) 19,5 x 25 x 1,5 cm., 120 pp., b/w & color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 800 copies

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.

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 '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.

'Der Blick auf zwei Welten' by Robert HAAS contains touching everyday and social studies of interwar Vienna as well as fascinating shots of the American way of life with sensitive portraits of great personalities and 'Street photography' from New York.

In his book 'FRG', Georg KUSSMANN describes a place caught between the weight of the past & the demands of the present. Evoking German histories of work ethics, dictates, & acronyms, he takes a subtle approach to how Germany struggles to understand itself

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 22 x 30,5 cm., 200 pp., b/w ills., bilingual text: German / English, Ltd. to 300 copies

'Chargesheimer im Zoo', contains b/w shots of animals & people at the Cologne Zoo. The volume by the Cologne photographer contains unknown photographs, shown for the first time, from a time when a visit to the zoo was still one of the year's highlights.

The photo volume 'Versuch der Rekonstruktion einer vergangenen Zeit' presents for the first time b/w photos by free jazz pioneer Sven-Åke JOHANSSON taken in the 1960s & 1970s. They condense into a personal as well as laconic inventory of an analogue time.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24,5 x 21,5 cm., 84 pp., 54 tritone ills., German / English

Thread-sewn HC with silk, laminated & embossed with dust jacket, 24,5 x 31,5 cm., 72 pp., 32 triplex b/w ills., bilingual texts: English / German

Unlike in his thematic stories, out-of-print book 'Jahrebuch' by Ulrich WÜST reveals something very personal & private. Here, the world seems to be surrounded by a melancholy veil that does not conceal anything, but rather reveals the precision of vision.

Gebundene Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 18 x 24,5 x 2,5 cm., 224 S., S/W-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

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..

SIGNED COPY. 'Stuttgart. 28 Photos aus dem Südwesten der Republik' by Christopher ANHALT contains full-paged b/w images from South West Germany. The limited edition photo volume was nominated for German Photobook Price 2009. Book design by Stefan KAETZ.

The photographic volume 'Aufwacken' by Jens NOLTE is the result of a four-year project about the heavy metal festival in Wacken, Schleswig-Holstein, with a selection of snapshots, portraits of the festival visitors as well as the devastated festival area.

The black-and-white photographs in the volume 'Bye-bye, Belyn. In a village in Brandenburg' by Conny HÖFLICH show the everyday life of young people in a small village. The photographs were taken between 2005 and 2007.

The out-of-print volume on August SANDER shows around 40 b/w photographs that are exemplary for the portrait work created between 1921 and 1930 - around the time of the Weimar Republic: people from Cologne, the Westerwald, the Eifel, Hamburg and Berlin.

In the photo volume 'Berlin Havelhöhe. 1960/1961' Benjamin KATZ documents in an extensive convolute of over 400 b/w photographs the everyday life of patients in a clinic housed in former buildings of the National Socialist Reich Academy for Aviation.

Broschierte Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 17,5 x 25 cm., 401 S., zahlr. S/W Foto-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

by Thomas Seelig & Urs Stahel (eds.) Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 25 x 30,5 x 5cm., 400 S., reich bebildert,deutsch-sprachiger Text - here: GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

Art historian Ian Jeffrey has sifted through WWII soldier albums and selected the most compelling photos to create a record of lives that have seen the unprecedented. Style & content of the photographs changed along with the collective mood after 1942.

'Architekturphotographie in Köln. 1926-1932' to the same named exhibition at Museum Ludwig, Cologne, contains b/w photographs by the photographer Werner MANTZ showing Cologne buildings from the 1920s and 30s - photographed in the style of New Objectivity.

In out-of-print photo book 'Die Deutschen', René BURRI mainly depicts everyday life in Germany, where the bullet holes from the war can still be seen on the wall of the building. Hepursued his project for many decades. In 1986 and 1999, it was republished

HC with dust jacket, 33 x 25,5 x 2 cm., 88 pp., 34 color ills., bilingual text: German / English

'Berlin on a Dog's Night' by Gundula SCHULZE ELDOWY contains images made in old East Berlin from the cycles 'Berlin in einer Hundenacht', 'Der Wind füllt sich mit Wasser', 'Aktporträt', 'Arbeit', 'Straßenbild' & 'Tamerlan' together for the first time.

This out-of-print monograph 'Aus dem fotografischen Werk 1938-2004' on the work of Robert HÄUSSER contains countless b/w images, which have been assigned in chronological order to chapters by various well-known authors (the texts are written in German!).

The photo volume 'Thingstätten' edited by Katharina BOSSE deals with open-air theaters and meeting places of National Socialism. Art and documentation, text and image enable an interdisciplinary examination of the significance of the past for the present.

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 27 x 22 x 2 cm., 136 pp., 76 b/w ills., bilingual texts: German / English

This photo volume compiled by Hans-Peter FELDMANN, 'Frauen' - as 'Women' also available in English - shows a selection made and edited by the Düsseldorf photo artist from over 500 photos in a private collection.

SC (no dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 28 x 1,5 cm., 116 pp., approx. 100 b/w ills., German text only

In his book 'Köln. Das Gesicht einer Stadt' (Cologne. The Face of a City), Jo FOBER expressively portrays and documents the metropolis on the Rhine and the development of its architecture. In this way, he skillfully presents a new perspective on the city.

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 30,5 x 24,5 x 2 cm., 232 pp., 208 tritone ills., bilingual text: German / English

'Die Farbe Grau' combines photographs by Michael SCHMIDT - the series 'Berlin-Wedding' (1976-1978) and 'Waffenruhe' (1985-1987) with several pictures by famous artist Gerhard RICHTER from the years 1965 to 1974 as well as the work 'Siegel/Grau' from 1991.

'Einheit, Arbeit, Wachsamkeit. The GDR in Mozambique' by Malte WANDEL is about African workers who lived in the GDR until German reunification. Many live in poverty, because the money withheld from their wages, intended for their pensions, has disappeared

In the volume 'Raum und Bild' (Space and Image), a dialog between applied & artistic photography unfolds from the comparison of images by Candida HÖFER with interiors from the over 150-year-old photography collection at the Museum für Fotografie in Berlin

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 15 x 19,5 x 1,5 cm., 112 pp., 50 duplex b/w ills., bilingual text: German / English

Out-of-print photographic volume 'Liebes Leben' (Dear Life) by Roswitha HECKE consists of 94 images documenting the everyday life of street prostitute Irene. The b/w photographs were taken partly in Germany and partly in Italy (Rome?) in the mid-1970s.

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.

In the images in the book 'Horse' Jitka HANZLOVÁ transmits the essence and instinctive qualities of those animals, because horses communicate through a clear body language - the act of photographing unites the dialogue between man & animal in its entirety

The narrow band 'summer days. Peace Days' contains a selection from films that Robert CAPA exposed on his last visits to Berlin in the summer of 1945. New prints made from the original negatives in 1986 were used as a model for reproduction.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 17,5 x 24 x 1 cm., 120 pp., b/w ills., bilingual texts: English / German. Ltd. to 500 copies

Long time out-of-print catalog volume 'Aus der Distanz' features works by Bernd and Hilla BECHER as well as by Becher students Andreas GURSKY, Candida HÖFER, Axel HÜTTE, Thomas RUFF, Thomas STRUTH as well as Petra WUNDERLICH. And it contains two texts.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 22 x 29 x 2 cm., 102 pp., 39 b/w ills., text language: English

In 5th volume of his 'Deeper Shades' series, Andreas BITESNICH examines one of the most fascinating and diverse cities in Europe. After several years of work, this limited edition of 960 individually numbered copies with obi volume was published in 2017.

This out-of-print photo volume, '40 let fotoreportérem', offers a comprehensive overview of the work of Emil FAFEK. Starting with photos from the Second World War and the Liberation, through the Reconstruction to the Czech politics of the 1950s to 1980s.

The photo book 'Cinemas' brings together for the first time a film of cinemas that were newly created by Hugo SCHMÖLZ and his son Karl Hugo SCHMÖLZ between 1935 and 1957, especially in the Rhineland and the Ruhr area.