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Over 150 photo books from a private collection for sale. Signed titles, some in their original packaging and collector's editions with print from 2010 to 2016. Also to find next days with detailed description in the 'other second-hand photo books' section

In her rare, out-of-print volume 'Dildo', published in a very limited edition of only 55 copies, Japanese photographer Momo OKABE accompanies her friends in their transformation from woman to man. She developed her intimate, artistic photographs by hand.

Offered here is a set of various photobook titles by American photographer Mitch EPSTEIN (b. 1952). Some of the titles in this set are out of print. The 'Little Mitch Epstein Photobook Library' consists of twelve titles.

The out-of-print volume 'Early Works' by Issei SUDA contains black-and-white photographs that were published in several magazines between 1970 and 1975, prior to the 'Fushikaden' series - this photo collection is like a prologue to his personal history.

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 'A,' Gregory HALPERN takes us on a ramble through the Rust Belt.... The cities he is drawn to - Baltimore, Cincinnati, Omaha, Detroit - have a similar history to his hometown, and in this post-apocalyptic spring, all forms of life emerge and run riot.

The out-of-print volume 'In the Shadow of the Pyramids' by Magnum photographer Laura EL-TANTAWY appears to be a general account of the hopes and setbacks associated with the Egyptian revolution.But through the texts it gains considerable personal depth.

'I love you stupid' illustrates the fast life of young deceased artist Dash SNOW and his importance for the New York scene. The abundance of material as well as the 'appearances' of many people of the scene make this volume a document of US youth culture.

The self-published photo volume 'Discordia' by Moises SAMAN is a personal examination of the Arab Spring. The images from Syria, Libya and Egypt gain additional dynamics through the collages by Daria Birang. Folding pages create further cross-references.

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.

In his after sought and long-out-of-print volume 'Grays the Mountain Sends'Bryan SCHUTMAAT combines portraits, landscapes, and still lifes to explore the lives of working people residing in small mountain towns and mining communities in the American West.

Out-of-print photo volume 'Novemberrejse' by Krass CLEMENT consists of almost 80 b/w photographs showing life in a small Danish town. Every now and then the Danish photographer chooses unexpected angles and portrays some people from the shortest distance.

Out-of-print book 'Dialogues With Solitudes' brings together iconic images by Dave HEATH, who radically expressed feelings of alienation & isolation as early as the 1950s. In his text, Francesco Zanot situates the work within the history of US photography

2nd print run, HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 16 x 22,5 x 2,5 cm., 168 pp., 79 dutone ills., bilingual text: English / French

The out-of-print volume 'Aeronautics in the Backyard' by Xiaoxiao XU is about the dream to fly, as well as freedom and creativity. Text, image as well as historical resources were combined to strengthen and deepen the theme as comprehensively as possible.

Self-published book 'Carpoolers' by Alejandro CARTAGENA draws attention to the sociological and economic aspects of the Mexican-American economy. We look from above directly onto the loading area of Mexican pickups that transport very different 'loads'.

Out-of-print photo volume 'Redheaded Peckerwood' by American photographer Christian PATTERSON, which unerringly walks the fine line between fiction and nonfiction, is a disturbingly beautiful narrative about unfathomable violence and its place on the land

For his out-of-print photographic volume 'Miracle Chips', US-american photo artist John BALDESSARI mounts facial features in potato chips - perhaps also as a symbol of human fragility and transience. Maybe you discover them, maybe not.

Based on a classic landscape tradition, carefully composed 5x4 photographs are given a special effect by increasing the color & composition. Especially in moments when the expected narrative is roughly often gross due to pollution or destruction of nature

'Centralia' exposes hidden crimes of war as an indigenous people fight for their survival. It explores the unsteady relationship between reality & fiction and how our perceptions of reality & truth are manipulated. Shortlisted for First Book Award in 2017

This photo volume set 'Seven Stories' by Robert FRANK is a collection of small volumes that represents a new stage in his practice. As always, his photographs and stories relate to life and milieu: houses in Mabou and New York or trips to China and Spain.

Long out-of-print photo volume 'Bag Saga Blok' by Danish Krass CLEMENT, is a neighborhood portrait spanning over five decades around an old movie theater in Copenhagen's Vesterbro neighborhood - presented with an impressive range of photographic styles.

'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

'Ludwig Wittgenstein. Photography as Analytical Practice' contains his album, photographs of automata, and other self-portraits. In addition, the book places his photographs in a dialogue with the photographic practice and theory of contemporary artists.

'Pantomime' by Daido MORIYAMA features the more or less complete series of his pictures of fetuses, stored in formalin, photographed at a maternity hospital in Kanagawa. This was his first own project after three years’ work as an assistant to Eikoh HOSOE

The photographs in out-of-print, large-formated 'New York Arbor' by Mitch EPSTEIN document the importance of trees to urban life in NYC, as well as their complex relationship with the residents. The superb printing makes viewing a breathtaking experience.

'Photographs', published to accompany the Alberto GARCÍA-ALIX retrospective, contains B&W photographs from 1975 to 1997. In addition to included chronology, bibliography, and a selection of critical texts, it is supplemented by a series of reflections.

SIGNED COPY! The out-of-print photo book 'Lebensmittel' (Food) by Michael SCHMIDT documents the industrialization in food production. The volume consisting of B/W & color photographs was the last publication on which he still worked until its completion.

This photo volume by Carolyn DRAKE is a statement for the freedom of the Autonomous Region of Xinjiang. He combines photographs with drawings by the Uighurs. The book also contains excerpts from the allegorical story 'Wild Pigeon' by Nurmuhemmet YASIN.

'Das Auge der Liebe' (The Eye of Love) by René GROEBLI owes its existence to a belated honeymoon. Sparsely furnished rooms, mirrors, beds, window views, wine, cigarettes - and his wife Rita. A love poem and a book for lovers, longing, seeking, desperate.

'The Atmosphere of Crime, 1957' by Gordon PARKS includes an expansive selection of never-before-published photographs from reportages he did for 'Life' on a six-week journey that took him to the streets of New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

The 'Hiroshi Sugimoto Collection' includes the five volumes from 2014 to 2019. Adopting different conceptual approaches and astounding aesthetic expedients, these series investigate his obsession though the photographic medium: the 'fossilization of time'

In 2017 dutch photographer Bastiaan WOUDT visited and succeeded admirably in connecting with the people of Mukono. The result is a wide-ranging collection of remarkable monochrome portraits, alongside some surreal impressions of the local landscape.

'I Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine' by Pacifico SILANO works with printed ephemera of gay culture. He comments on loss, longing and melancholy. The leporello consists of sequences that can be read as a coherent collage or as a sequence of individual images.

Out-of-print book 'Hattfabriken' by Gerry JOHANSSON documents the architectural details of the building by Erich Mendelsohn as well as more buildings that reflect the history of the factory and the turbulent political periods from the 1920s to the present

In 'Temptation of Life' by Boris MIKHAILOV, older images enter into a dialogue with those from 2017, taken in a Soviet-era Kiev crematorium, as well as in decaying corners of Eastern & Western European cities and in bedrooms and hospitals, and night bars.

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 22 x 28 x 1,5 cm., 72 pp., 31 color ills., 950 gr., no text

The US report in out-of-print book 'Heartland' by Thomas HOEPKER is a prime example of committed photojournalism personally interpreted, of photography as reportage at the highest level of formal aestheticism. Photo history and at the same time up to date

In his out-of-print photo book 'Dark Knees', Mark COHEN documents his hometown of Wilkes-Barre for more than 40 years through the eyes of a stranger. With their dazzling combination of lines, the images convey this sense of restless energy and strangeness

Colth bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 29 cm., 400 pp, dutone b/w ills., ext language: English

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.

The catalog title 'Indstillinger', means both on the camera setting and the personal attitude of Danish photographer Krass CLEMENT. We see works from several known books: Roskilde, Faergen, Novemberrejse and there are also many unknown photos to discover.

In his out-of-print photo volume 'Tonatiuh', Juan BRENNER examines the contemporary Guatemalan society from the perspective of the mestizaje and the consequences of the Spanish conquest in the form of a complex, segregated and deeply troubled society.

This out-of-print monograph on the work of the Iraqi photographer Latif al ANI gives a very good impression of international life in the 1960s and 1970s in a metropolis in the Middle East. 112 b/w photographs in almost page-filling square format.

Cloth bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 27 x 30 x 2 cm., 120 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

In the 1970s and 1980s, Italian photographer Luigi GHIRRI pursued a project characterized by empathy for the changing everyday spaces of his time. During his short career he created a large number of color photographs as well as influential essays.

Laia ABRIL has been working on projects dealing with the so-called 'world epidemic of eating disorders' since 2010. The volume 'The Epilogue' tells the story of the Robinson family and the consequences of the loss of their 26-year-old daughter to bulimia.

'Waga Tokyo 100' tries to record Shitamachi Tokyo. Instead of drawing a portrait of the city, however, the Japanese photographer Issei SUDA documents the people who live there. Although it is not a narrative, the selected photos form a whole.

'The Island of the Color Blind' by Sanne de WILDE documents a hereditary disease of people in Micronesia. The image selection obscures or emphasizes their eyes, faces and their way of seeing - the viewer is led into a dream world of colorful possibilities

The book 'American Winter' by Gerry JOHANSSON shows half-empty cities across the U.S., with as much beauty as misery in snow-covered landscapes: a lonely church floating in a dappled sea of white, or bare trees lining endless highways tending to nothing.

'The Disappeared' by ambitous photo book editor contains portraits of people who disappeared in Argentina. It is a political bond that wants to keep the memory of these people alive. Printed on thin paper, it is primarily an inexpensive photo book item.

Inspired by military manuals, American ex-soldier Ben Brody's diary-like photo book 'Attention Servicemember' is a passionate exploration of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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.

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..

HC with dust jacket, 19 x 24 x 2,5 cm., 240 pp., 146 b/w ills., multilingual language: French, English, Polish & Russian

'Södrakull Frösakull' explores the heritage of B.Mathsson, one of Swedish modernism’s leading designers. In Frösakull, a house he designed & lived in, Mikael OLSSON has created an interplay between presenceand absence, inner meaning & outer representation

Out-of-print book 'Nurture Studies' by Diana SCHERER recalls illustrations in 17th-century botanical encyclopaedia as well in books from the 1970s. Despite references to these predecessors, the artist produced images that are bare, unadorned and original

For her book 'Hafiz', Sabiha ÇIMEN documented the life at Koranic schools for girls in Turkey for three years. A return to schools as she once visited them with her twin sister. The title refers to someone who has memorized all 604 pages of the Holy Quran

The out-of-print photographic volume 'Ima' by Japanese photographer Jin (Hitoshi) OHASHI is a book about birth and the early stages of life, featuring visceral, explicit scenes of birthing, alongside portraits of young children.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued) in slipcase, 37 x 27 x 2 cm., 90 pp., b/w ills., Japanese/English, Ltd. to 900 numbered copies

For his out-of-print book 'Outskirts', Daisuke YOKOTA explores the boundaries between digital & analog photography. He uses color images from the outskirts of Tokyo - pictures of cars, trees & buildings - whose colors he then reverses into the monochrome.

This beautifully designed, brocaded large format volume 'Daughters' by Margaret de LANGE brings together for the first time the complete collection of beautiful, award-winning black & white photographs that the mother took of her two growing up daughters.

Paperback, 24 x 33 cm., 52 pp., Ltd. to 300 numbered copies

The shots in the book 'Snow and Rose & other Tales' by Marianna ROTHEN are staged, reminiscent of Antonioni, Bergman or Godard films, and invite you to look for allusions. Slowly a story unfolds, from despair to a domestic life to freedom and independence

The out-of-print book 'Escape' by Danila TKACHENKO is about men who have turned their backs on society to live alone in the wilderness of the Russian and Ukrainian forests. It raises the question of their own personal freedom and the possible consequences

Out-of-print catalog 'Soul and Soul by Kiyoshi Suzuki', coincided a retrospective exhibition. It brings together the two mediums in a worthy tribute to the artist that surveys both his approach to photography and the various book dummies that he designed.

In out-of-print photo volume 'A Criminal Investigation', Yukichi WATABE documents investigations into a gruesome murder. The images unfold in the style of 'film noir' and involve the viewer. Image by image, the mystery engulfs the one who has to solve it.

Out-of-print volume 'Stills' is a dialogue between Katrien de BLAUWER - who collects photos from old magazines and newspapers to create collages - and US sound artist Danny CLAY, who in turn works with open forms, found objects, as well as toy instruments

In 'Cut Outs' Jessica BACKHAUS consequently continues her path of abstraction already taken in photo volume 'A Trilogy' - using analog methods she creates and documents visual experimental arrangements, poetic choreographies of intense, sunlighted colors.

The photo volume 'Altered Ocean' by Mandy BARKER contains works created over the past ten years that address plastic pollution in the world's oceans. Numerous reproductions from sketchbooks offer a glimpse into the thought processes during the project.

The glossy photo publication 'High Fashion' by Polish photographer Pawel JASZCUK, reminiscent of a fashion magazine, contains color photographs of drunken salesmen in chic work clothes on their way home. Now these lie asleep in the streets of Tokyo.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 28 x 38 x 3 cm., 496 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

Out-of-print book '404 not found' by Li YANG deals with an abandoned place in Poeple's republic of China. It contains images of the city, which was once designed as a research base and was home to up to 50,000 people at times, taken around the year 2000.

The collection 'Margret. Chronik einer Affäre' (Chronicle of an Affair) is an emphatically sober and at the same time obsessive, authentic documentation, shows the changes in a couple's dealings with each other and is a moral portrait of the late 1960s.

In his out-of-print photo book 'Sound Affects' with color photographs from Memphis, Tennessee, 'The Birthplace of Rock 'n Roll' and 'Home of the Blues', Christian PATTERSON explores Memphis utilizing light and color as visual analogues to sound and music.

The images in the out-of-print photography book 'Deep Springs' by US photographer Sam CONTIS capture the strange beauty in macro and microcosmic views in a remote desert valley east of the Sierra Nevada. The focus is on a small, college founded in 1917.

In a sequential narrative punctuated by contrasting moments of violence and beauty, Ron JUDE follows in his out-of-print photo volume 'Lick Creek Line' the rambling journey of a fur trapper, methodically checking his trap line in a remote area of Idaho.

In 'Black Passport' Stanley GREENE attempts to come to terms with the impact his volatile work in the world's crisis zones has had on his life. By combining cruel photographs with authentic statements, an impressive portrait of the photographer is created

'The World's First Photobook Was Blue', by ALBÁRRAN CABRERA shows their work as well as explains their artistic process. The title is a reference to Anna ATKINS, the spiral binding to BRASSAI and the book itself is a tribute to photography's complexity.

The out-of-print photographic volume '10 Days in Krakow' by Yuan-yuan YANG is a travelogue and scrapbook in one. It is structured in three chapters and consists of snapshots, diary entries and found or taken during the stay in the (Polish) city of Krakow.

HC (without dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 27,5 x 1,5 cm., 104 pp., 91 b/w ills., bilingual text: Japanese / English, Ltd. to only 91 copies (with different print)

Unbound Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 29 x 1,5 cm., 144 pp., bilingual: Dutch / English, Ltd. to 600 copies

A faithful faksimile of the artist book 'Snowflakes Dog Man' by Hajime KIMURA. Three offset printed volumes in a black screen printed and handmade cardboard. The dreamy softness and delicacy of the images is intoxicating and disturbing at the same time.

The out-of-print book 'México-Roma' by Graciela ITURBIDE is a complex book whose common thread is alone the vision of the photographer. The small volume consists of object photographers made between 1974 and 2009 in Mexico City, as well as in 2007 in Rome

HC in Japanese binding, 24,5 x 34,5 x 1,5 cm., 80 pp., 40 color ills., text language: English

HC with dust jacket, 29,5 x 29,5 x 1 cm., 72 pp., 34 duotone b/w ills., text language: English

New publication of the 1982 black and white photos by Roger MELIS, first published in 1986 as a photo book. 'Paris zu Fuss' (Paris on Foot) was the first book by an East German photographer who told life in a strange city through photography alone.

HC with dust jacket, 27 x 19 x 3 cm., 436 pp., b/w ills., bilingual texts: Japanese / English

The announced photographic volume 'Leipzig 1972' by Ute ESKILDSEN and Timm RAUTERT is the result of a series taken during a week in autumn 1972. It shows a very subjective, silent picture of Leipzig. A special, historical document of analog photography.

This out-of-print book, 'Mati & the Music', presents works by Mati KLARWEIN, which he produced for record covers by Miles Davis, Carlos Santana, Earth Wind & Fire, Buddy Miles as well as Jimi Hendrix. He has also worked for record labels such as Blue Note

The volume 'Good Morning, America III' by Mark POWER is the 3rd of 5 - a visual narrative of a country in the midst of change. This project is a personal exploration of both the American cultural & physical landscape, and the divergence of reality & myth.

2nd print run, pb. with acetate cover, 32 x 22,5 x 2 cm., 184 pp., color ills., no text,

'Krystyna's World', includes 37 color photographs by Todd HIDO, both published and previously unpublished material, from intimate photos to succinct large format images. The Khrystyna model can always be seen in the various scenes, hence the book title.

HC (flexicover), 24 x 33 cm., 548 pp., 283 color & 186 b/w ills., text language: English

The photo object '3DPRK' by Matjaz TANCIC presents an extensive collection of North Korean people, photographed in stereo, focusing on common people: those who work in the fields and in the cooperatives, factories and steel mills throughout the country.

This photographic volume, 'Bread in Snow' by American photographer Mark COHEN, features a selection of color and B&W photographs on the edge of a body of work that includes street photography from the 1960s to the mid-1980s.

This photo volume, 'Dublin', is the second by Danish photographer Krass CLEMENT after 'Drum' - a classic in the history of photo books - with black-and-white shots from Ireland. The photographs were taken in March 1991, during a stay in Monaghan.

In the volume 'DDR Ansichten. Views of a Vanished Country', Thomas HOEPKER documents life and the GDR from 1959 until the fall of the Berlin Wall: rallies, dilapidated facades & prefabricated buildings, empty display cases as well as portraits of artists.

SC (french binding) in soft case, 36,5 x 26 cm., 64 pp., color ills., Ltd. to 700 copies