Limited print run

The title of the out-of-print autonomous artist book 'Sindbad' by Gerhard RICHTER comes from a series of 98 colored lacquer paintings behind glass (2008). Already in his first installation he created the book's concept by putting them together as diptychs

For this artist edition of 'Neue Welt', Wolfgang TILLMANS has selected 72 images and re-contextualized them on large, 24 folded printed sheets. Each is a separate object with a front, center fold and back. And some new photos are not included in the book.

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!

Vorzugsausgabe mit sign. & num. Originalabzug (Aufl. 20 +2 hc) in gewebebezogener Grafikmappe. Buch: HC, 32,5 x 28,5 cm., 120 pp., 112 ills.(43 in color), German & English

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.

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'

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.

New edition. 'So it goes, so it goes' by Miho KAJIOKA presents a work about time, memory and place. The series shows intuitive images of fragments of their everyday life at different points in time. Inspiration was Kurt Vonnegut's novel 'Schlachthof 5'.

This 'Special Edition Catalogue' is the first collection world-wide to feature each of the 18 series in Thomas RUFF's extensive portfolio. One of the special points about this collection is the use of different paper grades for the five included books.

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

'Tokyokei' documents both: Issei SUDA's very personal view of his hometown and an important Japanes period. This photo book is perhaps the most personal title of the Japanese master. It contains 106 previously unpublished b/w photos from the 1970s and 80s

'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

This edition of 'Chizu / The Map' by Kikuji KAWADA is an exquisite facsimile of the two-volume maquette, which also includes a booklet of texts and an interview with the Japanese artist revealing the evolution of one of the best photobooks of all time.

'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 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 '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.

The photographic volume 'Discarded' by US-American photographer Anthony HERNANDEZ is part of the 'NZ Library Set #3'. It consists of thirty-five photographs taken in desert and high desert cities such as Riverside, Salton City, Lancaster and Palmdale.

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.

'Roxane' represents the visual journal of the photographer Viviane SASSEN. The book shows a series of intimate portraits of her muse named Roxane, whose body and expressions follow the artist's instructions in various poses and moods.

Out-of-print 'Hong Kong Umbrella' by Michael WOLF shows umbrellas in the Back Alleys. The cover also refers to the yellow umbrella as a symbol of protest against Chinese appropriation; images of the 'Umbrella Revolution' by Lam Yik FEI can also be seen.

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.

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

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 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.

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 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.

The out-of-print photo publication 'Umbra' by Viviane SASSEN delves into the world of shadows. A seductive and deceptive darkness that lies in every human soul, like a silent black lake with a surface as flat as a mirror that can only be broken.

Out-of-print volume 'Hong Kong Rubber Boots and Shoes' by Michael WOLF contains images of everyday from 'his' laboratory for exploring the behaviors, creativity and inventiveness of the city's inhabitants, reflected in the variety of random arrangements.

'One Sunday in Beijing' by Michael KENNA is the result of an artist-in-residence stay. The book was published in a small edition with two different colored covers (red and yellow), with print and also carries an inserted conundrum image on the book cover.

Out-of-print book 'Tichy' contains images and quotes by Miroslav TICHY. The foreword / essay are by Harald Szeemann / Roman Buxbaum - both in English & Japanese. With biography, bibliography and a list of reproductions. The book design is by Élise MOUGIN.

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.

This set of four signed photo volumes - 'Shimagatari', 'Cascade', 'Dreaming' and 'By the Sea' - all by Japanese photographer Yasuhiro OGAWA offers a very deeper understanding in his work as well as in the Younger Japanese Color & Blacknwhite Photography.

As there is a wall clock in almost every household, Matjaz TANCIC titled his out-of-print volume, which oscillates between the future and the past, 'Timekeepers'. Conceived as an old photo album, the 3D images inside show Chinese and their home interiors.

'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.

'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.

'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.

'CAMP 1979' by Keizo KITAJIMA documents the activities in the experimental space of the same name co-founded by Keizo KITAJIMA, Seiji KURATA & Daido MORIYAMA. Typical for his style is the coarse grain and very strong contrast and his choice of subjects.

The out-of-print photo volume 'Streets and Trails' by Bernhard FUCHS contains seventeen full-page color illustrations. The photographs by formerly Bernd-BECHER-student show quiet, deserted streets and trails in rural surroundings. Limited 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.

The images in the out-of-print volume 'Into the Light' by Sandy KIM are surprisingly mysterious and surreal, like in a never ending dream. (Self) portraits are more carefree and loving than Nan GOLDIN and less staged and more authentic than Ryan McGINLEY.

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!

'Gaudi, Impresiones Intimas' by Aitor ORTIZ represents an artistic interpretation using the means of photography, poetry, book design & printing. The result: a Bible-like publication that is impressive in its minimalism, precisely designed and implemented

The book 'A City Aglow' by Shunji DODO book is a warm, dizzyingly up-close and overwhelming portrait of Thailand's capital Bangkok. Made in medium 6x6 format, the black-and-white photographs were taken during numerous visits between the mid-1980s and 2019

For his 'Tableaux chinois', Thomas RUFF has digitally processed Chinese propaganda images distributed worldwide by the Communist Party. In this large-format photo volume, the work transports the images of the 20th century into today's visual language.

This out-of-print book 'Menschenbilder. Photos aus den Jahren 1966 bis 1986' by Michael HOROWITZ contains portraits of Thomas Bernhard, John Lennon, Andy WARHOL, among others, as well as a mounted original photograph and a signature of the photographer.

First published in 1973, Swedish photographer Anders PETERSEN's 'Gröna Lund' series of black-and-white portraits of mostly young people was shot at one of Sweden's oldest amusement parks, located on an island off Stockholm.

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

In 'Dragonfly. 2002-2007' by Koji ONAKA, the matte color application harmonizes with the intention of the unspectacular, also evident in the choice of the cheapest possible color film. The countryside shots are great because they don't pretend to be great