Leporello

HC in accordeon style, 13 x 18 x 3,5 cm., 127 pp., 120 color ills., text language: English

'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 leporello photo volume 'Teatro Del Tempo' by Joseph KOUDELKA, shows twenty-five photographs taken by in Rome between 1999 and 2003. Atmospheric architectural and landscape photographs that point to the cultural heritage of contemporary Rome.

The out-of-print accordion-format photo book 'Petros Village' by Guy TILLIM is about the rural life of the villagers of a small village in the East African Republic of Malawi. About one-third of the double-page photographs show portraits of its residents.

In his out-of-print Leporello photo volume 'Roma, Città di Mezzo' South Africa photographer Guy TILLIM searches for the city in the middle, the light in the middle. His appeal lies in the strong tension of his search for scale in the city.

After graduating from ICP, photographer Ni LIANG turned to the familiar and overlooked. He put aside his large format camera, picked up his iPhone 4, and focused on documenting his hometown lake, Lake Tai. 'Memory of the Lake' comes in accordion format.

Self published photo volume 'Provisional Life' by Icelandic photographer Rannveig EINARSDOTTIR is the result of a project about refugees living in German refugee homes. It comes as a arge format leporello with a (rather hidden) German/English text pages.

The leporello photo book 'Prosopagnosia' by Joan FONTCUBERTA & Pilar Rosado shows portraits from the 1930s, which serve as the basis of the project. On the back are images produced with artificial intelligence - as a wonderful sequence of failed attempts.

This out-of-print photo volume, 'Decreazione' by Josef KOUDELKA, designed as a leporello, accompanied the exhibition of nine large-format black and white panorama photographs that were exhibited in the Vatican pavilion during the 2013 Biennale.

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.