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The book 'Magic Eye' offers an overview of the work of René GROEBLI. We discover his fascination for movement and speed. And we encounter the rich hues of his unique, innovative color photography, through which even commissioned works become timeless art.

This 13-volumes collection on the work of Swiss photographer Jakob TUGGENER, 'Books and Films' contains facsimile editions of the first twelve original book dummies from the years 1936 to 1982 as well as a selection of his 16 mm short films on DVD.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 30 cm., 48 pp., 20 b/w ills., text language: English

This photo book, 'From Black and White to Color', contains some exceptional, as yet unpublished photographs and shows the development, breaks and above all the radicalism of William EGGLESTON when he started taking photographs in color in the late 1960s.

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

Slipcased HC, 30,5 x 38 x 2 cm. (12 x 15 in.), 48 pp., 40 duotone b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 350 numbered copies

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

'In Color' by Bruce DAVIDSON presents his personal selection from his lesser-known color archive. These images date back 56 years and represent the photographer's color career from various fields such as magazines & commercial projects as well as fashion.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 18 x 24 cm., 96 pp., 55 color ills., English

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

'Black and White' shows the lesser-known facet of the work of the photographer Fred HERZOG who emigrated in the early 1950s to Vancouver. Complementing 'Modern Color', it gathers almost graphic scenes of light & shadow and moments of life outside the city

In his artistic beginnings in the early 1950s, William EGGLESTON photographed with a 35mm high-speed film in black and white. 'Before Color' contains b/w photos of the pioneer of color photography discovered some time ago in the Eggleston Trust archive.

2nd printrun, slipcased set of 2 linen bound HCs, each with dust jacket, 20 x 20 x 2 cm., 388 pp., 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

'Contacts' is a collection of William KLEIN’s famous contact sheets. The most important works of this great artist have been chosen and printed from these contact sheets, which can be either detached and framed or kept in their original form in the book.

'Peru' is of great historical importance in the history of photography. Some images of this series were known, but previously the entire series had been seen by only a few people. The volume presents the complete sequence of images, based on the original.

The photo volume 'Pangnirtung' by Robert FRANK is about a village in the Arctic Circle. However, there are no people to be seen in the images. In a harsh yet lyrical tone, he shows the deserted harbor, a haberdashery, a telephone booth and the cemetery.

'Subway', the new edition of 1986s original. In 1980 Bruce DAVIDSON began photographing the New York subway system. At first in black and white, but he soon realized that color film was necessary to depict the intensity of this graffiti-covered landscape.

Two slipcased HC, 20,5 x 26,5 cm., 344 pp., English

'In History' shows how Susan MEISELAS deals with basic questions such as the relationship to her subjects, use & distribution of her images, and the relationship of images to history & memory. A contribution to the debate on contemporary photojournalism.

Photo & text book 'Man redet immer zu viel' (You always talk too much) contains twelve interviews with Henri CARTIER-BRESSON from almost fifty years. In view of the flood of secondary literature, he provides authentic information about his life and work.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 25 x 28 x 1,5 cm., 140 pp., 97 b/w (tritone) ills., English

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

This volume, 'Modern Color' to the work of Fred HERZOG, brings together more than 230 color photographs, most of which had never been reproduced before. It contains text contributions by the highly esteemed authors David Campany and Hans-Michael Koetzle.

Reprint for 1976, once on the occasion of the first color photography exhibition in a museum as the catalog published. The book with a crocodile leather-like cover contains a total of around 48 EGGLESTON photographs and is also as a reissue a must-have!

Over 30 color photographs - presumably overlapsing with other volumes about EGGLESTON - contains an interview as well as a summary & classification. Overall, a beautiful, to the wrongly forgotten softcover volume as a supplement to your photo book library

HC (without dust jacket, as issued), 18 x 26 x 0,5 cm., 72 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

Photo volume 'Life is Good & Good for You in New York' by William KLEIN is regarded as one of the most influential books in the last half-century - here reproduced in its entirety as brilliantly photographed & designed opus as a complete photobook study.

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.

HC with dust jacket, 24 x 25 x 4,5 cm., 196 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

This book, '1416 Anholt' by Jäger ARÉN, shows the everyday life on the Danish island between Denmark and Sweden. With a sensitive eye and his Leica cameras, he has roamed nooks and crannies of the island, which has been his summer retreat since childhood.

Slipcased pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 20,5 x 25 x 1 cm., 52 pp., 43 ills., text language: English

'London/Wales' by Robert FRANK combines two series of images whose contrast could not be stronger. With these photographs, he tells the timeless story of a society in transition. They are early testimonies to his search for new forms of poetic photography

Gebunden, mit Schutzumschlag, 22,5 x 30 cm., 360 S., 220 Abb., deutsch-sprachig - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 30 x 24 x 2 cm., 248 pp., b/w ills., 2,480 gr., no text, Ltd. to 700 copies

'The Unseen Saul Leiter' shows for the first time 76 rediscovered works from an extraordinary photographic treasure trove of more than 40,000 color slides left by the American photographer at his death, only a fraction of which ever saw the light of day.

The images in the book 'CARS. New York City. 1974-1976' by Langdon CLAY feature a distinct array of makes and models set against the gritty details of their surrounding urban and architectural environments, and occasionally the ghostly presence of people.

The up to then little researched early work by Henri CARTIER-BRESSON from the 1930s was the subject of an exhibition at MoMA in New York in 1987. The volume of the catalog with a well-founded text by Peter Galassi is still regarded as authoritative today.

For out-of-print book 'Ball nights 1934-1950', Jakob TUGGENER immersed himself in the world of luxury. He captured fleeting moments & details, facial expressions & gestures, which he condensed into cinematographically perceived image series & book layouts

The catalog 'Saul Leiter. Die Große Retrospective' sheds new light on one of photography's most enigmatic figures. It shows New York street scenes, fashion & nude photographs and makes archive material, contact prints & notebooks accessible to the public.

The new edition of the first, most elaborate as well as very rare artist's book by William EGGLESTON, 'Election Eve', combines the original two-part series in one book. The photos of the pioneer of color photography convey a disturbing image of the USA.

re-edit, Otabind pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 30,5 x 1,5 cm., 102 pp., 160 tritone b/w ills., text language: English

The out-of-print volume 'Self Portrait' by Lee FRIEDLANDER is a reissue of the originally in 1970 published classic photographic book. The US-american photographer appears in the form of its shadow or is reflected in windows and mirrors.

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.

In out-of-print book 'Les Amies de Place Blanche' by Christer STRÖHOLM shows the Parisien nightlife around 'Pigalle' night club in the 1950, which was dominated by a transsexual scene. The b/w images show his documentary strength and his love of humanity.

HC (with dust jacket), 30,5 x 31 x 1,5 cm., 193 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

Re-edit, open thread-stitched pb., 17 x 23 x 1,5 cm., 128 pp., 74 b/w ills., bilingual texts: German / English

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.

3 x SC in slipcase, 20,5 x 28 x 6 cm., 580 pp.

Linen bound HC with dust jacket, 21,5 x 30 x 2 cm.,