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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.

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 16 × 22 cm., 224 p., more than 140 color ills., 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.

The photo catalog for the exhibition at the Zollverein Essen shows 75 haunting portraits of Holocaust survivors. In view of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, it is an attempt to preserve the incomprehensible for future generations....

'JFK. A photographic memoir by Lee FRIEDLANDER is the first to show archive photos of the public reaction to the election and assassination of President John F. Kennedy. A moment in US history that enchanted the nation and continues to impress today.

In 'SPUD', Brian GRIFFIN explores the relationship between potatoes and those soldiers who were killed in the same place some 100 years ago. 'SPUD', the informal word for potato, was also used for British soldiers of low rank during the First World War.

In 'Tierra' Espe PONS invites us to delve deeper into memory, through places that have been marked by the trauma of the Spanish Civil War. The images urge us to examine the surroundings we pass by every day, to see them ias a repository of silent pain.

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

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 20 x 23,5 x 1,5 cm., 156 pp., 70 color ills., text language: English

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.

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 Previously unpublished images are re-edited and series are set in relation to each other.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 photo volume '1078 Blue Skies / 4432 Days' by Anton KUSTERS contains limited edition Polaroid photos of the abstract blue skies above European concentration camps of the German Nazi regime. It is the result of a long-term project lasting six years.

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.

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

This out-of-print photographic volume 'London 1949' by René GROEBLI is the result of a two-week-staying in the bombed-out capital with his rolleiflex camera. The 2nd part of the book contains a series of images shot at London's Crystal Palace Park in 1951

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

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

The handmade volume 'Visual History. Afghanistan 1980-2004' by Edward GRAZDA is reportage AND personal reflection on the people in Afghanistan with whom he spent time - and a documentary about those groups' creative approach to advertising and the media.

Reissue of the original volume from 1971. 'Pornography' by Klaus STAECK is an irritating panopticon of everyday violence, a total work of art, offensive in many senses of the word and could hardly be more topical as an artist's manifesto against violence.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 25 x 32 x 1,5 cm., 136 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

HC with dust jacket, 23,5 x 30,5 cm., 46 pp., 400 duotone b/w ills., text language: English

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.

Clothbound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 20 x 24 cm. 105 pp., b/w ills.,

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

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.

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.

Out-of-print 'Werner Bischof. Pictures' presents the work, which is in the area of tension between art and reportage and was created in a short time because of the early death of the photographer. It also contains the color photographs he took in the USA.

Tony VACCARO'S visual diary a young GI from and after World War II. The photos in black and white of the later fashion photographer - e.g. the famous image of the dead soldier covered with snow - are combined with the war experiences described by himself.

This new edition of the photo book classic 'Nicaragua. June 1978 - July 1979' by American documentary photographer and Magnum member Susan MEISELAS is a groundbreaking contribution to the literature of committed photojournalism with bonus material on DVD.

In addition to the famous photos by war photographer Robert CAPA, this catalog volume 'Retrospective' shows some unpublished photos such as those from the Tour de France, 1939. Numerous artist portraits round off the picture of a surprisingly diverse work

The large-format photographs in the photo volume 'Ortszeit / Local Time. Fotografien 1990-2004' by Stefan KOPPELKAMM allow a detailed reading of all the traces of time: the dramatic social and economic changes after German reunification become visible.

The out-of-print book 'Das Auge des Krieges' by Dieter KELLER follows a seemingly modern pictorial aesthetic, showing that the artistically trained photographer of the Bauhaus period knew how to use aesthetic perception as a key to processing reality.

The book 'The Devil is Leaving His Cave' by Wendy EWALD shows the daily lives of Mayan communities im Mexico just before the devastating aftermath of the Zapatista uprising - complemented by new work created in collaboration with young Mexican Americans.

Paperback (no dust jacket, as issued), 16,5 x 23,5 cm., 88 pp., highly illustrated, bilinguale texts: Spanish / English

At the 1937 World's Fair in Paris, Cologne was the only city in the world to be represented with its own pavilion at the Seine river, captured by Karl Hugo SCHMÖLZ. The photo book 'Cologne and the Seine' tells a forgotten episode of Franco-German history.

'The Children of Bergen-Belsen' Maria KLENNER deals with the fates of children who were born in Bergen-Belsen shortly after the end of the World War. The study sheds light on questions of history & migration, identity & belonging, trauma & new beginnings.

3 booklets, bound together, Claudia HEINERMANN - Wolfskinder / Wolf children, Michal IWANOWSKI - Clear of People & Indre SERPYTYTE - Forest Brothers

In her German-language volume 'Das Leiden anderer betrachten,' Susan Sontag recapitulates the historical development of war photography from Spanish Civil War to Afghanistan, and asks: what does the sight of a suffering human being trigger in the viewer?

'Yokohama Gorakuso' contains b/w architecture photos, but Miyako ISHIUCHI makes from them soul full portrait photographs of a building. A secret history of this building complex and in certain ways an answer to her first photo volume, 'Apartment' (1978).

The out-of-print volume 'Nein, Onkel: Snapshots From Another Front 1938-1945' contains snapshots of fun-loving, sexually inappropriate and work-shy elements of the German military machine, as well as the commonly accepted view of 'bad men in ankle boots'.

Open binded HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 16,5 x 24 x 2,5 cm., bilingual: English / Japanese, Ltd. to 500 numbered copies

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 35 x 29 x 2,5 cm., 192 pp., 106 color ills., bilingual texts: German / English

The out-of-print photographic volume 'A Letter from Japan.' with its black-and-white photographs by U.S. wartime photographer John SWOPE, include shots taken mostly in war-torn Japan in 1945, contrasting with his work as a Hollywood photographer.

HC (swiss binding, no dust jacket, as issued), 17,5 x 23,5 cm., 64 pp., b/w ills., 450 gr., details in Swedish / English, Ltd. to 500 copies

'Platinum' by Jason LARKIN and writer Jack Shenker explores the Marikana massacre and the physicality and context of South Africa's platinum industry. The photo volume breaks with the common rules: it combines large format posters with a concise essay.

Book in spitral binding, 22,5 x 30,5 x 3 cm., 288 ills., b/w ills., text language: English

Broschierte Ausgabe, 17 x 23 x 3 cm., 416 S., S/W und Farb-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

'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

New York based photographer Bill PERLMUTTER traveled through Europe on behalf of the US Army from 1954. 'Europe in the Fifties. Through a Soldier's Lens' shows a selection of his b/w 6 x 6 Rolleiflex photos from Germany, France, Italy, Portugal and Spain.

In her photo book debut, 'Germania Eck', Isabell HOFFMANN uncovers historical traces of National Socialism in Koblenz in multi-layered photographs. The documentary-artistic images are shown on an archival level with photographs and plans from the 1930s.

Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 17 x 24 x 1,5 cm., 136 S., S/W-Aufnahmen, deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

HC in slipsleeve, 22 x 27 cm., 92 pp., 84 b/w ills., English / Russian, Ltd. to 500 numb. copies

'Deutsche Bilder' by Eva LEITOLF shows the crime scenes of attacks, the sympathizers in the environment as well as uninvolved spectators. Each location is provided with a researched text on the course of events and the legal, media & political reappraisal

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

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

HC (no dust jacket, as issued),

Extra Edition. Cloth bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 18 x 27 cm., 80 pp., 183 b/w & 25 color ill., bilingual text: English / Italian, Ltd. to 150 copies

Out-of-print book 'Human Territoriality' by Roger EBERHARD brings together photographs of former border areas around the globe and across human history. With detailed captions, the images help to decipher the multifaceted cartographic puzzle of our world.

New edition of the long out-of-print photo volume, 'Berlin, Fruchtstraße am 27. März 1952'. Arwed MESSMER and Annett Gröschner address the facets of photo documentary by creating the portrait of a street of 32 individual photographs by Fritz TIEDEMANN.

In 'Italia in Miniatura', images by Luigi GHIRRI show scale models of Italy's most important natural & architectural landmarks, placed in surreal proximity to one another in a theme park. The photos themselves reflect the processes of their representation

At the end of the Second World War, parentless children were fleeing from the Red Army in Lithuanian forests. 'Wolfskinder' by Claudia HEINERMANN consists of portraits, photographs of their living conditions as well as historical photos and documents.

Gebundene Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 30 x 25 x 3 cm., 143 S., etwa. 135 zumeist vollseitige Farb- und S/W-Aufnahmen, deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

HC, 22,5 x 28,5 cm., 106 pp., 57 ills., Ltd. ed. of 750 copies

In photo-text volume 'Gerda Taro, photo reporter: With Robert Capa in the Spanish Civil War. The biography 'presents research results and the find of the' Mexican Suitcase ', in which over 800 photographs by Gerda TARO were discovered.

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.

Out-of-print photo volume 'South Africa. The Structure of Things Then' represents the culmination of photography, research and writing by David GOLDBLATT. His more than 30 years of experience lends a meaningful undertone to the carefully composed images.

2nd printrun, set consists of 1x HC, 16 + 24 cm., 48 pp. + same sized pb., 30 pp. + newspaper, 24 x 32 cm., 48 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

'Wolfen' by Tobias ZIELONY combines several levels: images from Wolfen-Bitterfeld; their storage in archive film format and a text that oscillates between essay & science fiction. Darkness is thematized here on a biographical, physical & historical level.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 23,5 x 31 x 1,5 cm., 136 color ills., English / Dutch, Ltd. to 600 copies

HC with dust jacket, 18,5 x 24 x 2,5 cm. (9,5 x 7 in.), 172 pp, 105 b/w duotone ills., text language: English

'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.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), (7 3/4 x 11 inches), 104 pp., color & b/w ills., no text

In her book 'Dear Japanese', Miyuki OKUYAMA documents from a personal perspective, recording compatriots abroad. It consists of portraits, places and landscapes containing associative Japanese elements which often feel displaced within the environment.

The out-of-print volume, 'Später Sommer. Letzter Herbst', follows in sequence & format the handmade leporello 'Später Sommer/Letzter Herbst' by Ulrich WÜST, transforming it into a book and brings together series as well as some individual images from 1989

HC with dust jacket, 31 x 26 x 2,5 cm., 230 pp., 98 s/w ills.

This new edition of the photo volume 'Made in Germany' by Leonard FREED, first published in New York in 1970, has been accompanied by a booklet containing previously unpublished images, documents as well as texts from 50 years of his Germany photography.

In the leporello-format book 'Galeb', Matija BRUMEN documents the interior of the state yacht with an eventful history during WW II, which was used by former Yugoslav President Josip Tito for representation (1952 to 1980) and is currently rotting unused.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21,5 x 22,5 x 2 cm., 88 pp., 75 color ills.,

Out-of-print volume 'Berlin und die Berlinern' with 60 images by Lynn MILLAR and 27 b/w images by Will McBRIDE contains a compilation of the most expressive photos of an exhibition shown in 1958, supplemented by additional shots from East and West Berlin.

The out-of-print volume 'Paul Strand at Work. Toward a Deeper Understanding' presents a selection of b/w images taken between 1943 and 1953 in France, Italy and New England. In these series, he explore the connection between people and the natural world.

'Shit' is a picture story of German soldiers who did their business in battle during World War II. In this photo book, Dutch photographer Erik KESSELS examines a shitty aspect of the war that has never been covered in the history books.

'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 'Congo (Belge)' follows Belgian Magnum photographer Carl de KEYZER with the help of an old travel guide from 1958 the relics of an organizational structure that once served the Belgian colonial power to effectively exploit the country and its people.

In his photographic volume 'Berlin' Jason LANGER explores the city as well as places where Jewish people were deported or killed and also takes this as an opportunity to rethink his preconceived notions and find a new image of contemporary Germany.

HC with dust jacket, 21,5 x 28 x 2 cm., 168 pp., color & 128 b/w ills.,

Out-of-print 'Hufelandstrasse. 1055 Berlin' by Harf ZIMMERMANN presents b/w images of people & buildings on this street, as well as intimate color photographs of families in their homes. A historical document of a journey through time devoid of nostalgia.

The photographic volume 'Reenactment' by Arwed MESSMER presents an artistic perspective on the legacy of the GDR secret police. It uses photos from the archives of the Ministry of State Security (Stasi) showing failed escape attempts at the Berlin Wall.

Broschierte Ausgabe mit Print (13 x 18) ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 23 x 30 x 1 cm., 94 S., 25 Farb- & 10 S/W-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 18,5 x 25,5 cm., 128 pp., 118 ills., bilingual texts: English / German

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 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

Actual printrun, HC with dust jacket, 27,5 x 23,5 x 2,5 cm., 184 pp., bilingual text: German / English (with 8 pp. insert)

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.

by Matz / Vollmer. Hardcover, 24 x 29 x 4 cm., 288 pp., 310 Abb., deutsch-sprachig - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21,5 x 30 x 3,5 cm., 749 pp., b/w ills., bilingual texts: German / English