Mobility

In 'The Bridge' Michael YUAN portrays the Golden Gate Bridge. A study of its form, lines, shapes & distinctive color: imposing towers, stylised street lamps, gigantic cables, bolts, plates with their own distinctive geometry & shape, colour, sound & light

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 20 x 25 x 2 cm., 120 pp., 89 color ills., text language: English

Today, when civilian supersonic air travel - once a futurist's dream - has become a cultural relic, the images in 'Concorde' by the German photographer Wolfgang TILLMANS mark not only a starting point for his own work, but also a larger historical moment.

The debut photo book, 'Auto Land Scape' by Michael TEWES, is the result of a long-term project. He brings highways into our field of vision, shows them as an independent architectural form and elicits details from them that we otherwise do not perceive.

In der überarbeiteten Version von 'Walking the High Line' dokumentiert Joel STERNFELD ein New Yorker Verkehrsrelikt der 1930er Jahre, von dem aus heute die Natur in der Stadt zu beobachten ist. Diese Serie war für den Erhalt um die Hochbahn entscheidend.

'Gas and Glamor. Roadside Architecture in Los Angeles' is the debut photo book by the American photographer Ashok SINHA. It celebrates in full color the American street architecture that was built in Los Angeles during the golden age of the automobile.

Out-of-print 'Architectures of Waiting' by Ursula SCHULZ-DORNBURG shows bus stops in Armenia and stations of the Hejaz Railway in Saudi Arabia on a railroad line that once connected Damascus with Medina, but on which no trains have been running for long.

In his photo volume 'LA', Hans-Christian SCHINK generates - based on the precise investigation of the no man's land of Los Angeles - a contrast of nocturnal panoramic shots with extreme cropped enlargements that only hint at traces of urban action spaces.

The photographic volume 'Inexplicata Volantes' by Swiss photographer Luciano RIGOLINI contains photographs found in a ufology center. Reproduced without any manipulation, the images serve the need to explore their poetic power.

This out-of-print volume, 'Picturing America: Photorealism in the 1970's', offers a snapshot of this chapter in art history, when in the late 1960's a number of young artist:s in the United States began painting images directly from photographs.