Limited print run

The NZ-Library Set #2 consists of six signed hardcover photo volumes from Robbert FLICK / Kazuo KITAI / Philip MELNICK / John SCHOTT / Toshio SHIBATA / Mark STEINMETZ. In an extra made slipcase, richly illustrated, texts in English, Ltd. to 350 copies!

In 'Photobooks &' researcher Matt Johnston explores trends & practices based on research, interviews & his own experiences. He proposes a critical framework for looking at photo book use and calls for a reorientation to address its communicative potential

The catalogue 'Photobooks. Art Page by Page' accompanies an exhibition with a selection of 45 photo books from recent decades, focusing on unusual concepts, designs & forms of presentation that reveal the potential of the photo book as an artistic medium.

This set, 'Short Cut', by Finnish photographers Aapo HUHTA, Akseli VALMUNEN & Filippo ZAMBON - contains three subjective takes on the idea of home and its meaning. Each book is printed on a different paper, with a different technique and silkscreen covers

'Transgalactic. Photography. Gender. Transition' highlights works by trans and/or queer artists and their authentic testimonies that break gender stereotypes. Texts and images explore the diversity of perspectives on photography, gender and transition.

Published in newspaper format, '40 Jahre laif. 40 Positionen dokumentarischer Fotografie' is both an exhibit and a catalog of the exhibition of the same name, which celebrates the anniversary of the German photographers agency from Cologne.

In her book of photographs 'Empty Nests' Atsuko Murano ABALOS does not show the nothingness, but rather she confirms the existence of a bright and wonderful world that can be found in these 'empty nests'. The volume shows stork nests in the French Alsace.

This 5 volume project that present hundreds of outstanding ABBOTT images for the first time. These previously unknown images further clarified the range of her photographic activity beyond her 'Paris Portraits', 'Changing New York' & 'Documenting Science'

The photographs in 'Radius 500 Meters', come from the photo archive that the author Terje ABUSDAL inherited from his grandfather, Åsmund Abusdal. The snapshots tell of small and large events in and around the gas station in Sweden in the 1970s and 1980s.

This self-published photo volume 'I can't get through the chaos' by Polish photographer Michal ADAMSKI tells the story of the year he said goodbye to his parents forever. The images, mostly in black & white, show real, tangible death, not his imagination.

In 'Photographic Syntax', ALBARRÁN CABRERA explains why they produce their own images using different photographic processes, why they use the medium of photography as a learning tool, and the thoughts behind images, many of them previously unpublished.

The images of ALBARRÁN CABRERA in 'Remembering the Future' speak to us of memory and experience. At first glance, their very clarity is moving. After a time, rather than real scenes, they begin to seem the settings for dreams about to vanish into the mist

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 19,5 x 30 x 1 cm., 52 pp., b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 150 numbered copies

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 26 x 23,5 x 1,5 cm., 84 pp., 41 b/w & color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 750 copies

This out-of-print photo volume, 'Jetlag and Alcohol' by Morten ANDERSEN, is both a visual diary and a profound portrait of the city of New York. The b/w photographs in it take you into a multifaceted cityscape.

The reissued 'Oslo F.' by Morten ANDERSEN documents architectural details, graffiti, objects, plants as well as vegetation of the capital in the north. The book title was inspired by the films 'Christiane F. from Zoo Station' as well as 'Døden på Oslo S.'

SIGNED COPY. 'Stuttgart. 28 Photos aus dem Südwesten der Republik' by Christopher ANHALT contains full-paged b/w images from South West Germany. The limited edition photo volume was nominated for German Photobook Price 2009. Book design by Stefan KAETZ.

SC, 10,5 x 15 cm., 64 pp., color ills., Ltd. to 250 copies

A goose is the inspiration and main character of the limited photo volume 'Goosewalk' by Austrian photo artist Regina ANZENBERGER. The book is the second part of a trilogy that includes the volumes 'Roots & Bonds' (2015, 2022) and 'Shifting Roots' (2020).

The photo volume 'Roots & Bonds' - part of a trilogy - by Regina ANZENBERGER contains forest images, created in the thicket. An atmospheric, quiet and artist volume - shown by the selection of images, the book design as well as the choice of paper used.

'Gstettn' is a piece of land that is waiting to be developed and has meanwhile been taken possession of by nature. With her photos in 'Gstettn', consisting of 8 booklets in a linen slipcase, Regina ANZENBERGER has documented this place in seven chapters.

SIGNED COPY! Limited volume 'Under the Apple Tree' by Regina ANZENBERGER shows portraits of family members taken with an analog Rolleiflex. The apple tree is both a real setting anchored in her biography and a place of longing to which there is no return.

The reissue of 'Sacchin' contains photos of street children taken in 1964 by the young Nobuyoshi ARAKI. Who exactly these children are and where they play is irrelevant - the narrative moment in these photos lies in the nostalgia that this series evokes.

'A Folktale From Vietnam' by Gianpaolo ARENA is the result of a long-term project that captures fragments of diverse rituals of the society, offering a glimpse into its present and future cities in decay, culture and capitalism, folklore and propaganda.

In the book 'Tokyo Debugger', Shinya ARIMOTO intersperses photos of abandoned architectures as traces of past human activities, expanding the scope of his insect series - another world within Tokyo, dominated by the most successful creatives on the planet

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 20 x 25 cm., 92 pp., color ills., English, Ltd to 500 copies / 150 munb., stamped & signed copies

The volume 'Cyanotpes' presents for the first time in their entirety the album 'British Algae' by Anna ATKINS and 'Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns', showing her pioneering technique of photographically documenting botanical species around 1850.

The photo book 'Horaivka' by Anatoliy BABIYCHUK is the result of some visits to the small central Ukrainian village. His interest in traditional rituals and work in the fields becomes a prototypical sociogram of a forgotten stretch of land in Europe.

The book 'Von Ort zu Ort / The 12 Year Walk) by Thorsten BAENSCH is a long-term project documenting a trek through seven countries. This illustrated travelogue takes the reader on a journey marked by various leitmotifs such as danger, death, and nature

With its beautiful still images of water and clouds, flowers and trees, sun and light, people and magical moments, the out-of-print photo volume 'Kintsugi' by Edith BALK creates that moment of pause and contemplation. It's a big little book about silence.

For the 13th 'Des Oiseaux' photo book, Roger BALLEN has made a special selection of mostly unpublished photographs. In closed universes full of graffiti, signs, shadows and fragments, stories take place whose boundaries between fantasy and drama are fluid

The photo book 'La peau du prénom' (The skin of the first name) by Lyoz BANDIE is the story of the obsessive hunt for a new first name. An intimate and sensitive story, a coming out, a dive between genders that invites to question this social construction

The calendar contains twelve works of the 'Guerilla' street artist BANKSY. The cover motif, 'Girl With Balloon' / 'Love is in the Bin', is simultaneously included as a poster, it became known worldwide at an auction in 2018, when it began to self-destruct

Out-of-print artist's book, 'Lange Weile' by Tina BARA, contains b/w-mages taken between 1983 and 1989 in East Berlin, the old GDR and other travels. This visual diary captures a moment right before the collapse of an entire political & ideological system

Brutalist architecture & concrete fascinate Sue BARR (professor of photography, London). With her large format camera, the British woman traversed all of Italy from the Alps to Naples and photographed the previously largely ignored motorway architecture.

In his book '22 day in Between', Salih BASHEER collects the few memories he has of his parents, who passed away when he was 3 years old. These memories, seen from a child’s perspective are presented in a mix of images, writing, self-portraits and drawings

The out-of-print photo volume 'Oldschool & Newschool. Two Views of Skateboard Photography' by Barbara WÜLLENWEBER and Alexander BASILE covers two periods in skateboard photography: 1989 and 2002 to 2007. The book includes one print from each of the series

The limited edition photographic volume 'HAUS HOF LAND' by the photographer Brigitte BAUER, who lives in the south of France, contains color photographs of her German homeland from 1987 to 2017.

'Charbon Blanc' contains a quiet documentary work, made in the Maurienne Valley, a largely uninhabitable 'Aluminum Valley', French Alps. Teo BECHER brings together traces of human activity and the mountain landscape photographed in the rhythm of walking.

One of the last master students of Bernd and Hilla BECHER, published his first conceptual work, the portrait of the small lower saxonian city in which he once grew up, on newspaper paper - nine years before publication in photo book format.

'Four Books in a Box', shows Joseph BEUYS as a showman, but also in private moments and allows an exciting look at him through the eyes of those who knew him best. Limited edition of 900 slipcases with a photograph, signed and numbered by Gerhard Steidl.

'Belfast Diary' by Peter BIALOBRZESKI documents a city that has suffered considerably from the violence associated with the Ireland's division. The photographs were taken in 2017, before the Brexit and the feared consequences for the fragile peace process

'Cairo Diary' by photographer Peter BIALOBRZESKI captures the city of Cairo between the fall of Morsi and Mubarak. They show daily life in the Egyptian capital in a time of great urban, social and political upheaval and renewal. Part of the 'Diary' series

In the eleventh volume of his Diary series, 'Dhaka Diary', German photographer Peter BIALOBRZESKI turns his gaze to the capital of Bangladesh, the fourth most populous city in the world with over 21 million inhabitantsand its crowded streets and backyards

Five new volumes of the long-term book-project 'City Diary' by Peter BIALOBRZESKI were published for Paris Photo 2021. The documented cities are Dhaka, Yangon, Minsk, Belfast as well as Linz. They are offered here in one set, there are still predecessors!

'Linz Diary' is dedicated to a city, which was a provincial & governmental city of the Holy Roman Empire, as well as considered by Adolf Hitler as his hometown. Against this background, the photographer Peter BIALOBRZESKI documented the cityscape in 2019.

The 'Minsk Diary' by Peter BIALOBRZESKI contains full-page color photographs of Europe's 11th most populous city, administrative capital of the 'Commonwealth of Independent States' (CIS), and the capital of the Belarusian Republic in former Soviet Union.

In his 'Wuhan Diary', Peter BIALOBRZESKI turns his gaze on the Chinese city of Wuhan. His pictures - taken between February 22 and March 12, 2017 - show a pulsating city with over 19 million inhabitants, which has to cope with its own rapid development.

In 'Yangon Diary', Peter BIALOBRZESKI visits Myanmar’s most populous city and its most important commercial centre with over 7 million people. This series for the 12th installment in the City Diary series was shot between 21st February and 1st March 2019.

The photo volume 'Chongqing Souvenir' Lukas BIRK is about how to bring impersonal images of violence to discussion. The people depicted in the book are dissidents who have been mounted in a book designed in the manner of private memory albums of the time.

In 'Gülistan' Lukas BIRK tells the story of Kenan & Filiz from Istanbul, who celebrated their lives in the city's best establishments in the 1960s and 1970s. The basis for the graphic design of the volume was the photo service offered in the institutions.

The out-of-print volume 'Yangon Fashion 1979'by Lukas BIRK brings to light photographs from the 1970s from Myanmar, when dictatorship ruled there. The emerging portrait photography became important for the development of the cultural identity of the youth

In 5th volume of his 'Deeper Shades' series, Andreas BITESNICH examines one of the most fascinating and diverse cities in Europe. After several years of work, this limited edition of 960 individually numbered copies with obi volume was published in 2017.

'American Geography' by Matt BLACK marks the culmination of a long-running series on the U.S.A. The Magnum photographer created an inventory with meticulously composed photos, especially the cities in the periphery as well as the everyday precariousness.

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

The out-of-print photographic volume 'Fallen Empire' by Italian photographers Alex BOCCHETTO & Valentina ABENAVOLI is the result of over two years of documenting the ever-changing cityscape of London's East End on the eve of the 2012 Summer Olympics.

In 'Book Manifest' Irma BOOM presents her vision of the nature, meaning nad relevance of the book. Based on more than 350 of her books, she shares her knowledge gained from intensive research and discusses context and relationship to the traditional book.

The self published photographic volume 'Exit Ghost' by German photographer Kai BORNHÖFT is a well editied artist book with black-and-white photographs between hard book cover form industrial building production. It deals about the Arabian city Dubai.

Special Edition. It comes in a folder, approx. 24 x 32 cm, hand bound + 1 signed & numbered print (ed. of 30)

Self-published volume 'Do You Sea?' by Selen BOTTO deals about unvisible waste on beaches. It contains over 50 photomontages, the Italian photographer/artist by covering areas of colored beach photographs with plastic pieces and photographing them again.

The catalog on Sergey BRATKOV, titled 'Glory Days', contains images from 1997 to 2007- an idiosyncratic mix of reportage & staged photography. It places his work in the context of recent photographic art and the social environment in Russia and in Ukraine

The photo publication 'The Polaroid Kidd' by Mike BRODIE consists of fifty Polaroid housed in a gray cardboard case with silkscreen printing. The design is inspired by the punk ethos the people pictured live by and the utilitarian train cars they ride in.

For out-of-print volume 'Schrott', two photographers each documented an industrial site in the Ruhr region: Joachim BROHM in the port of Duisburg (1993), Ralf KREUELS took night shots in Duisburg-Rheinhausen as well as in the port of Dortmund (1996/1997).

'Outside Room 8' by Lotte BRONSGEEST presents a documentary of the life of Geert Broertjes after his cancer diagnosis. It visualizes the patient experience with common cancer treatments by subjecting film reels and negatives to the same healing procedures

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.

The small, limited edition photographic volume 'New York, 1975' documents in 30 color imafes the forays through New York City by the artist André CADERE during his first trip. It's also a look back at the ever-changing US-metropolis of the mid-1970s.

'Fastidiosa' by CAIMI & PICCINNI is the result of 6 years of photojournalism by the duo on the plight of local farmers and environmental degradation in the Puglia region of southern Italy. A very personal and intense account of the Xylella plant epidemic.

The photo book 'Güle Güle' by CAIMI & PICCINNI portrays the constantly changing metropolis of Istanbul and its inhabitants. The color photos were created from the experience with the Turkish mentality as well as visually striking, unexpected situations.

After the city of Naples, Valentina PICCINNI & Jean-Marc CAIMI are now exploring their hometown, Rome. They looked for their own vision and created an idiosyncratic, mysterious & abysmal b/w portrait that is reminiscent of films by Visconti and Fellini.

The out-of-print 'Eden is a magic World' by Miguel CALDERÓN is about an obsession. The central character is Flor Eduarda, former Mexican child actress who received letters from an admirer in Korea after a highly successful telenovela in which she appeared

'Trente-Trois Pichets Pastis' is a tribute to the artist Ed RUSCHA, whose artist books are among the most influential photo volumes. Rui CAMILO staged Pastis pichets - for connoisseurs of Ed RUSCHA's artist books as well as for the French Savoir Vivre.

In out-of-print 'Und der Garten alles Beton', photographs by Adrian CAMPEAN meet poems by Dan Sociu, telling about the love of two Romanians coming from poverty. The images show roughness of the city, the dramaturgy drifts from the public into the private

Using the Dolomite mountains as an example, Marina CANEVE asks the viewers in her volume 'Are They Rocks or Clouds?' to consider the risks people take in an effort to live comfortably while exploring the limits of how they interact with the natural world.

This photo volume by Alejandro CARTAGENA brings together his long-term project, in which he documented the suburbanization in Monterey (northern Mexico) and the changes - from urban planning to everyday challenges to the ecological consequences of growth.

Small spiral bound 'Paloma al Aire' is an ethnographic documentary in which groups of men run through the countryside behind their male pigeons, observe their mating achievements, discuss the rules & decisions. From this CASES has made a photographic gem.

The book 'Glitter Blues' by Lorenzo CASTORE deals with transvestites in Catania, Sicily. This black & white and color series shows urban motifs as well as interiors and portraits. Two essays in English close the book, which is designed by Aneta KOWALCZYK.

Photo volume 'Land' is a result of Lorenzo CASTORE's artist's stay in Gliwice, which witnessed events that erupted with the Second World War II. 'Land' is a summary of his wanderings, a photographic travel diary that focuses on the history of the people.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 31 cm., 152 pp., color ills., English, Ltd. to 500 copies

In the out-of-print photographic volume 'Spleen and Ideal', French photo artist Tiane Doan na CHAMPASSAK traces the boundaries between male and female and the pulse of sexual encounters. The events experienced in Thailand were staged in Polaroid format.

HC (without dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 26 cm., 112 pp., 86 color ills., Daido MORIYAMA'S essay in English, Japanese & Spanish, Ltd. to 1,000 copies

'Ausgewählte Werke 1978-' by Sergej CHILIKOV shows Russian life of ordinary people in the countryside during the period of upheaval from the final phase of the Soviet Union to the post-communist present, far away from urban hustle & bustle and anonymity.

In 'Belfast' Krass CLEMENT revisits his work over 30 years on, gathering 114 unpublished b/w images and carefully placing then in sequence, offered without caption or comment. His work invites the viewer to spot the lone figure walking through the scene.

'Cotton' by Mark COHEN is a photo book with a political and social backstory. Instead of miles of cotton fields, he documents their traces in small cardboard boxes. With the camera he makes an unconscious litmus test exposed to the acid nature of racism.

The small sized photo volume 'The Great Eastern' by Scott CONARROE examines the changing landscapes of China with a view to the massive expansion of a high-speed line, the domestic part of the Belt & Road Initiative, also known as the 'New Silk Road'.

In 'Footfalls Echo', New Zealand photographer Freya COPELAND explores the loneliness & disconnection experienced in modern cities. The photos were taken in and around New York as well as in Berlin. Anextra volume contains an essay by Anna Hanlon in German

In 'Amazônia' Paul CUPIDO explores the ephemeral correspondences between body & earth. There is probably no place on earth more imbued with spirituality than the Amazon rainforest. With his camera, he enters into a dialogue with this mystical environment.

'Ephemere' by Paul CUPIDO emphasizes the volatility of existence in the process of creation, metamorphosis and disappearance. It's about the fragility of life, the interconnectedness of human / non-human and the silence on which every expression is based.

In her photo volume 'Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light' Anna Maria Antonette D'ADDARIO works in beautifully interwoven visual metaphors the tragic death of a beloved sibling and the intensity of extreme personal loss and family trauma.

'Too Much But Not Enough' is an avant-garde fashion project by Yang LI & Antoine D'AGATA, consisting of 23 LP album covers & booklets, Intimate texts touch on themes of self-knowledge & beauty, love & disillusion, personal freedom & social constraint.

The visual document 'Psychodemié' by Antoine D'AGATA reveals human vulnerability during the Covid 19 pandemic. It questions global social and political dynamics in the context of the pandemic against the glowing backdrop of a city confined to hospitals.

Loose sheets in pb. with PVC transparent dust jacket, 30 x 22 x 3 cm., 176 pp., 90 color ills. (4-color process, Offset LE-UV technology), no text, only details in English, Ltd. to 500 copies

Pb., 29,5 x 42 x 1 cm., 28 pp., 18 color ills., French, Ltd. to 300 copies

The photo book 'A les 8 al Bar Eusebi' pays tribute to the Eixample district in Barcelona and its people. Salvi DANÉS describes the atmosphere of a glorious time, surrounded by rust and mistrust, through gestures, glances and skilfully chosen details.

The out-of-print photographic volume 'Blackcelona' by Salvi DANÉS records a journey into the gray tones of urban polychromy, leading us through that chiaroscuro that engulfs the morphology of the city. It is an invitation to an aesthetic experience.

The self-published, glossy volume 'CHAMPÚ' is about a group of teenagers in La Vibora, a suburb of Havana. The images of these young girls and boys mingle to create a colorful still life that has become the nest in the city for Belgian Vincent DELBROUCK.