Iconic photographs

'Die Amerikaner' is the German edition of this work that looked at the Americans from a new perspective and which revolutionized the aesthetics of the photo book. It was first published in 2008, on the occasion of the anniversary of the French original.

German-language anniversary edition of the classic photo book. Walker EVANS put together 'American Photographs' himself. It became a sober, yet highly aesthetic description of the United States in the 1930s that influenced generations of photographers.

'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.

Photo volume 'BABY SUMO', the new edition on the occasion of Helmut NEWTON's 100th birthday. With more than 400 pictures, a booklet that documents the history of its creation and a specially designed book stand by French designer Philippe Starck.

DVD (PAL), 82 min., 16:9, English with German subtitles

This out-of-print edition of 'The Americans' by Robert FRANK comes from Chrsitian Verlag and was published 30 years after the photographs were taken. The book has been published in various editions and languages (including Chinese, Greman and French).

This Anniversary Edition of 'American Photographs' makes Walker EVANS' landmark book available again. Digital technologies aid in emulating the finely tuned balance of the 1938 reproductions, capturing as never before the look of the first edition.

The compendium includes many international photographers of diff. groups & schools of 20th century (New Vision, Straight Photography, New Topographics, New Color, Becher School), collected by Gallery Kicken in Berlin to celebrate their 30's birthday.

HC, 28 x 35 cm., 200 pp.

This 'Phaidon 55' edition covers the work of the US-american Magnum photographer Eugene RICHARDS. It includes a detailed expert essay, fiftyfive chronologically arranged photographs, each annotated, and a biography of the Dorchester, Massachusetts native.

German ed. 'Centennial', published on the 100th birthday of Irvig PENN, is the most comprehensive publication on his to date - an indispensable overview for anyone interested in his multi-layered oeuvre and the history of photography of the 20th century.

'The Dutch Photobook' deals with the recent history of the Dutch photobook. Selected titles were placed in the context of developments in photography & society on the basis of the themes of landscape, youth, travel, urbanity, and the autonomous photobook.

The reissue of photo volume 'Portraits' contains a collection of portraits by Helmut NEWTON, first published in 1987. Anyone who had himself portrayed by him knew what would come of it. The new edition guarantees some surprising reunions with old friends.

The book 'Walker Evans. America Leben und Kunst' by Svetlana Alpers about the photograph & heroe traces the phenomenon of a work whose author claimed that photography was the most literary of the visual arts. Afterword and translation are by Wolfgang Kemp

The selection made for this book, 'Photographs 1951-2000', shows why Shomei TOMATSU is regarded by almost all living Japanese photographers - including the stars of the scene like Nobuyoshi ARAKI or Daido MORIYAMA - as 'godfather' of Japanese photography.

Vol.2 of the 'Books on Books' series deals with the classic photo book 'American Photographs' by Walker EVANS. With its legendary 87 black and white photos that defined the documentary aesthetic, it is arguably the most important photo book ever published

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.

With photobooks by SANDER, RENGER-PATZSCH, TÜLLMANN, RIMKUS, FREED, HASHIGUCHI, REINARTZ, CHARGESHEIMER, McBRIDE, RIEBESEHL, BORCHERT, ARNOLD and many more

Only announced so far, this issue, 'The Complete Café Lehmitz Family Album', is to contain the complete material of the legendary footband. Then what will become of the classic itself? We are very curious!