Mobility

In the photo book 'Ruins of Detroit', photographers Yves MARCHAND & Romain MEFFRE use structures that were once a source of civic pride to show the decline of the auto city of Detroit, which was harder hit economically than any other major American city.

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

Out-of-print book 'Autos' by Bernhard FUCHS gives the photographs the apparent character of general pictorial plates, but on closer inspection they reveal themselves to be sensitive recordings of everyday situations and individual portraits of vehicles.

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.

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

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.

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.

Out-of-print 'Autobahn' (Highway) by Uschi HUBER shows freeway landscapes & rest areas, taken in European countries (Germany, Italy, Holland, Belgium, Austria, a.o.). Images were taken from the edge of the highway and from the perspective of pedestrians.

Photo book 'American Motel Signs II' is the result of a long-term project and offers a unique insight into one of the most fascinating aspects of contemporary American culture. Some of the photos are reminiscent of famous color photographs from the 1970s.