Hong kong

In out-of-print book 'Portraits from above', Stefan CANHAM and Rufina WU document rooftop communities of five buildings in districts of the Kowloon Peninsula before their redevelopment - an unprecedented insight into everyday life on Hong Kong's rooftops.

By focusing on the residents of the building complex in the out-of-print photo volume 'Lower Ngau Tau Kok Estate', the color images by John CHOY convey an unusually comprehensive impression of individual people and their relationships with one another.

In her carefully researched biography 'Das Leben der Vivian Maier. Die Nanny mit der Kamera', Ann Marks takes a closer look at a woman who fled parental rejection, experiences of violence as well as mental illness to discover her love of photography.

In out-of-print photo book 'Hong Kong', Abe KOGAN explores a city famous for its dense urbanity. Towering obelisks and facades of the megacity contrast with its cultural roots, a city born from a compromise between Chinese tradition and British influence.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 25 x 28 x 1,5 cm., 96 pp., color ills., text language: English

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 22 x 26,5 x 2,5 cm., 264 pp., 266 b/w ills., 1.250 gr., bilingual texts: English / Japanese - Ltd. to only 500 copies

'Combing for Ice and Jace' by Kurt TONG traces the history of one of China's oldest women's movements through the life of a single woman. Combing up - a ceremony involving hair braiding and ritual bathing - meant freedom for women in the Qin Dynasty.

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 (without dust jacket, as issued), 15,5 x 20,5 x 1 cm., 88 pp., 59 color ills., text language: English

Cloth bound (no dust jackets, as issued)