Monograph

'Ikonar. Archival Constellations' contains a large number of materials by Josef KOUDELKA from the years 1960 to 2012 as well as important series from his photographic work together with seven thematic constellations derived from the logic of his archive.

The book 'Magic Eye' offers an overview of the work of René GROEBLI. We discover his fascination for movement and speed. And we encounter the rich hues of his unique, innovative color photography, through which even commissioned works become timeless art.

Robert CAPA is considered to be the founder of photojournalism. His impressive photos of the Spanish Civil War made the passionate opponent of war world over night famous. In addition to most famous works, this portfolio also presents rediscovered images.

This out-of-print German language volume 'Photographien 1969-1989' spans the work by US-American Robert MAPPLETHORPE from the early 1970s and shows his most iconic images from portraits to still lifes and figure studies alongside lesser-known photographs.

'Fotografien 1980-2010' gives a perfect overview of the photographic work of Hans-Christian SCHINK, including his series around German unity and series created in Asia. The conflict between civilization and nature can be found in almost all his works.

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 22 x 28 x 1,5 cm., 72 pp., 31 color ills., 950 gr., no text

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 25 x 31 x 4 cm., 591 pp., highly illustrated, German text

The photo book volume 'Retrospective' is a catalog about Gerard Petrus FIERET and gives an idea of ​​the enormous oeuvre the Dutch photographer has created as an obsessive recorder of everything that came his way in a period of just ten years (1965-1975).

For 'I've Been Here Once Before', filmmaker David Teboul selected stills from a documentary about Boris MIKHAILOV, which fill books' middle section. Cleverly arranged, the single motifs create the impression of a cinematic sequence as you turn the pages.

In 'Joseph Beuys: Kunst Kapital Revolution' Philip Ursprung undertakes a historical journey to central BEUYS locations and offers a comprehensive overview of his works in the social, as well as economic-political context of the Federal Republic of Germany

The out-of-print volume 'Retrospective' on Douglas BUSCH includes works ranging from street photography, architecture and landscape photography to color photographs that leave the field of photography. With texts in German, translated to English.

With its generous image flow, this book, 'A Diary', celebrates important Japanese photographer Daido MORIYAMA as the 2019 Hasselblad Award winner and his highly influential, lifelong radical and authentic approach to photography.

HC with dust jacket, 25 x 28,5 x 3 cm., 263 pp., b/w & color ills., text language: English

This monograph comprehensively documents Toni SCHNEIDERS 'artistic life's work. On display are the well-known works from the 'fotoform' era, the travel photographs taken since the late 1950s, as well as nature, technology and portrait photographs.

In his tireless search, LEMPERT has already created a large image archive. His interest in nature is complemented by his extensive research into the properties and materiality of the photographic image. His photographs are resistant to any categorization.

'Here and Home', a comprehensive overview on the work by Larry SULTAN accompanied a large retrospective with the major series 'Evidence', 'Pictures from Home', 'The Valley' and 'Homeland'. It includes also early works as well as his writings & interviews.

This catalog contains two significant photo projects from American photographer Mitch EPSTEIN: 'Recreation' documents the openness of a pluralistic society. 'American Power' draws attention to one of America's central power factors, the energy industry.

'Masahisa FUKASE' introduces one of the most radical and original Japanese photographers of his generation, famous for 'The Solitude of Ravens'. It also includes lesser known works from his multi-layered corpus such as collages, self-portraits, Polaroids.

This long out-of-print monograph by Andreas GURSKY includes the artist's best-known works as well as new works unpublished until 2018. Essays provide new insights into key images - an indispensable survey of one of the world's most influential artists.

'ABC', selected and designed by William KLEIN himself, offers a visual survey of his varied career. It includes his poetic street photography of New York, Moscow, Rome, Tokyo and Paris; his fashion photography; filmstills; and his painted contact sheets.

In this out-of-print photo book 'Lines, Marks, and Drawings. Lines, Marks and Drawings. Through the Lens of Roger Ballen', this volume examines his work from a new perspective, from distinctive portraits and complex photographic tableaux to YouTube films.

Small, out-of-print photo book on the occasion of an exhibition in the Museum Ludwig, Cologne. It contains the series 'Drift' exhibited there with b/w photographs of a sequence that is made during an eruption of the Stomboli volcano on an Italian island.

In this photo book, '78', with previously unpublished material, which was created between 1971 and 1983, Issei SUDA's unique & deeply urban vision unfolds in a series of contrasts and allusions. The contrasting black tones of his work became his trademark

The photo and text book, 'Side Walk', combines very personal photographs & writings by Italian photographer Frank HORVAT, taken during his time in New York in the late 1970s and the 80s. Through different papers, 'Side Walk' depicts both sides of his work

HC with dust jacket, 21 x 27,5 x 2,5 cm., 176 pp., 60 coloir & 35 duotone b/w ills., bilingual text: English / German

Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 29 x 26,5 cm., 255 S., S/W- und Farbaufnahmen, deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

“While haute couture is closely linked with an idea of perfection and the mastery of every last detail, I wanted to transport DIOR creations to an unexpected place. The streets of NYC embody the most contrasting background to reveal unforeseen emotions.”

The photographs in 'First Pictures' by Joel STERNFELD were taken at a time when color photography had not yet been able to assert itself against the B/W tradition. They make this photo volume a revelation also in the history of contemporary photography.

This monograph on Magnum agency co-founder Henri CARTIER-BRESSON is about the decisive moment, humility and humanity in his work. The images reproduced in black and white range from the earliest works to landscape photographs from the 1970s.

The first overview volume on the work of Samuel FOSSO. From self-portraits from the 1970s to his most recent series 'Tati' & 'African Spirits', this photo book shows his departure from the West African studio photography of a Seydou KEITA or Malick SIDIBÉ

This catalog volume of the work of Swedish artist duo Klara KÄLLSTRÖM & Thobias FÄLDT between 2011 and 2021 invites us to critically consider the prevailing narratives about today's world and how photography is used in the creation of these narratives.

'Directions for Leaving' on the work of Jeffrey SILVERTHORNE 1971-2006 pointedly asks existential life questions about identity, gender, love, violence, sexuality and death. The transsexual becomes the ultimate symbol, seeking ways to show his inner self.

'Black and White' shows the lesser-known facet of the work of the photographer Fred HERZOG who emigrated in the early 1950s to Vancouver. Complementing 'Modern Color', it gathers almost graphic scenes of light & shadow and moments of life outside the city

For years, former BECHER student Candida HÖFER traveled around the world to photograph public and semi-public libraries. The photographic volume 'Libraries. The Return' brings together an essence of past work and juxtaposes it with current images:

The out-of-print photobgraphic volume 'Landscapes 2001-2003' by British photographer Richard BILLINGHAM brought together his landscape photographs for the first time. The color photographs are introduced by Sacha Craddock, an art critic and broadcaster.

HC with dust jacket, 21,5 x 26 x 2 cm., 192 pp., 187 color ills., bilingual texts: German / English

'I love you stupid' illustrates the fast life of young deceased artist Dash SNOW and his importance for the New York scene. The abundance of material as well as the 'appearances' of many people of the scene make this volume a document of US youth culture.

re-edit, HC with dust jacket, as issued, 21 x 27 x 2 cm., 168 pp., highly illustrated, text language: English

Out-of-print 'The Whiteness of the Whale' brings together the American series by Paul GRAHAM which reflect on the social fabric of contemporary USA while attempting to find something closer to the experience of being and seeing in the contemporary world.

In the out-of-print monograph titled 'Chasing Shadows', Santu MOFOKENG, who documented the fight against apartheid and the living conditions of the South African population in his photographs, describes his approaches and approach in an interview.

This catalog volume contains a summary of Thomas RUFF's exhibitions to date - from his earliest beginnings to his most recent works - and thus provides a complete overview of the entire oeuvre of one of the famous artists of the Düsseldorf Photo School.

This paperback volume, 'Shomei Tomatsu. Japan 1952-1981' from 1984 is a very informative catalog on the work of the Japanese photographer due to its well-made, precise selection of black-and-white photos as well as the essays written in two languages.

This so far only monograph on Sid GROSSMAN, a comprehensive survey of his life and work, includes early social documentary work (1930s), more personal and dynamic street photography (1940s), and late experiments with abstraction in b/w and in color.

'At the Edge of Pictures' is the first monographic study of life and work of John STEZAKER. By using the eventful decades of the 1970s and 80s as a prism, Yuval Etgar offers a new reading of his mode of operation and a mapping of the strategies of collage

'The Many Lives of Erik Kessels' provides an overview of how to better understand and appreciate the hybrid way of working of the Dutch photographic artist Erik KESSELS, who defies any categorization. With more than twenty works as well as many essays.

The out-of-print photo volume 'The Vienna Album' accompanied the exhibition, 2005/2006 at KunstHausWien. Among other icons in photography, it contains also distinctive images which were featured on more than 250 Vogue titles and in countless publications.

'Joseph Beuys. Werkübersicht 1945-1985' is the ideal introduction to Beuys's world of thought and imagination and the work he left behind in all its many metamorphoses. 152 illustrations from all of the artist's creative areas and a text by Alain Borer.

'In History' shows how Susan MEISELAS deals with basic questions such as the relationship to her subjects, use & distribution of her images, and the relationship of images to history & memory. A contribution to the debate on contemporary photojournalism.

'Der Blick auf zwei Welten' by Robert HAAS contains touching everyday and social studies of interwar Vienna as well as fascinating shots of the American way of life with sensitive portraits of great personalities and 'Street photography' from New York.

The images in the German language book '(Félix) Nadar. Bilder der Moderne' by Bernd Stiegler unfold a cultural history of Paris in the 19th century: Science & world exhibitions, aviation & agriculture, Haussmannization & hermaphrodites, tourism & theater.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued) 23 x 28 x 2,5 cm., 128 pp., 14 color & 96 duotone b/w ills., text language: English

The photo volume 'Works. 2023-1996' by Andreas GEFELLER brings together previously unpublished works, key images as well as current works. It shows how the photographer takes a critical look at a digitalized world and questions human habits of perception.

HC with dust jacket, 28 x 28 x 3 cm., 240 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

In his out-of-print photo book 'Travel Plans' Jeffrey SILVERTHORNE takes us by the hand, leading us past the beauty and the grand guignol of a life in the shadow of mortality. The longer you look, the more questions they provoke, and with that: compassion

HC, 26 x 28 cm., 200 pp.

HC with dust jacket, 29 x 25 cm., 144 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

'Intimate Distance' is the first comprehensive monograph chronicling the career of renowned photographer Todd HIDO. Author David Campany introduces the work, he specifically addresses the cinematic influences and the type of viewership his work requires.

English edition. This catalog raisonné documents the entire spectrum of graphic and photographic editions by prominent German artist Gerhard RICHTER as well as his books, multiples and editions in oil that he realized between 1965 and 2004.

The out-of-print volume on August SANDER shows around 40 b/w photographs that are exemplary for the portrait work created between 1921 and 1930 - around the time of the Weimar Republic: people from Cologne, the Westerwald, the Eifel, Hamburg and Berlin.

HC with dust jacket, 27 x 25 cm., 263 pp., b/w ills., English

In the photo volume 'Berlin Havelhöhe. 1960/1961' Benjamin KATZ documents in an extensive convolute of over 400 b/w photographs the everyday life of patients in a clinic housed in former buildings of the National Socialist Reich Academy for Aviation.

The book 'Pictures From Home' by Larry SULTAN as a reissue of the title documenting his repeated return to his childhood home. For this, Super 8 films were newly digitized as well as everyday footage juxtaposed with the 'American Dream' of the Reagan era.

The monograph 'Small Biography' features photographs by Shoji UEDA from the 1930s to the 1990s, originally published in Camera Mainichi magazine between 1974 and 1985. The limited edition of 1000 copies was numbered with an ink stamp on the colophon page.

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 28,5 x 23,5 x 1,5 cm. 40 pp., 53 mostly full-paged color ills., bilingual text: German / English

This volume, 'Modern Color' to the work of Fred HERZOG, brings together more than 230 color photographs, most of which had never been reproduced before. It contains text contributions by the highly esteemed authors David Campany and Hans-Michael Koetzle.

In out-of-print photo book 'Die Deutschen', René BURRI mainly depicts everyday life in Germany, where the bullet holes from the war can still be seen on the wall of the building. Hepursued his project for many decades. In 1986 and 1999, it was republished

This out-of-print photo volume, 'Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel', in German with its numerous illustrations offers a remarkable overview of the altogether twelve years of joint work of the two American artists since the 1970s in San Francisco, California.

In 'Witness Number 7,' Todd HIDO creates a connection between his photographs of vacant interiors of foreclosed homes and portraits of Leon Borensztein. HIDO's powerful, surreal images evoke a longing for the time when things were better in these homes.

This monograph, 'I am,' on Erwin OLAF chronologically traces his career from brash provocateur to official portraitist of the Dutch royal family. Between the series, his opinionated texts provide insights into the context and inspiration of his works.

This out-of-print monograph 'Aus dem fotografischen Werk 1938-2004' on the work of Robert HÄUSSER contains countless b/w images, which have been assigned in chronological order to chapters by various well-known authors (the texts are written in German!).

The photo volume 'Mary Ellen Mark - Encounters' focuses on five iconic series from the 1970s & 80s which contributed significantly to her reputation. It contextualizes these works within her œuvre alongside original magazine spreads and archival material.

'Dancing with my camera' is the most comprehensive publication on Dayanita SINGH to date. It presents her work, contains works from the 80s, a new series and the works 'Museum of Chance', 'Museum of Shedding', 'I am as I am', 'Go Away Closer' & 'Box 507'.

Out-of-print book 'The Essential Cecil Beaton. Photographien 1920-1970' provides insight into the sheer inexhaustible creativity of this multi-talented photographer through outstanding pictorial examples and with personal statements by him on photography.

Presenting earliest work by Edward WESTON from a discovered family album, 'Portrait of the Young Man as an Artist' compares his first artistic efforts with his masterworks to show persistence & evolution of his vision to find essential form with intensity

This 'Phaidon 55' edition covers the work of the US-american Magnum photographer Eugene RICHARDS. It includes a detailed expert essay, fiftyfive chronologically arranged photographs, each annotated, and a biography of the Dorchester, Massachusetts native.

Out-of-print (German language?) volume 'Autoportrait' by Robert MAPPLETHORPE showcases 65 self portraits, many previously unpublished and culled from his earliest works, that offer insight into the photographer's complex personality and self-explorations.

'Imago Ergo Sum', with eight projects by of Joan FONTCUBERTA (Herbarium, Fauna, Sputnik, Securitas, Pin Zhuang, Miracles, Deconstructing Osama and Trepat) stake out an inquiry rightly known as the problematization of the 'regimes of truth' in photography.

The photo book 'In the Beginning' covers the first seven years in the work of the American photographer Diane ARBUS. The monograph contains over 100 early photographs from 1956 to 1962, which clearly show the development of her typical, suggestive images.

The photo book catalog 'Camera in Love' is the most comprehensive overview of the work of Dutch photographer and filmmaker Ed van der ELSKEN to date. It was published on the occasion of the largest retrospective to date at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.

German ed. 'Centennial', published on the 100th birthday of Irvig PENN, is the most comprehensive publication on his to date - an indispensable overview for anyone interested in his multi-layered oeuvre and the history of photography of the 20th century.

In addition to works selected by Eva BESNYÖ herself, the out-of-print volume contains previously never shown works with motifs from Budapest, Berlin, Brussels, Paris, Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Milan with attention to light, shadow, cropping and line play.

This monograph makes the best of Lee MILLER's work accessible, including surrealist compositions & travel photos. At the end of the Second World War she was a war correspondent in Europe and documented the liberated Dachau & Buchenwald concentration camps

'Structures of Dominion and Democracy' reconstructs the history of some publications of series by David GOLDBLATT and illuminates his work in the context of South Africa's political, cultural history, as well as his contribution to photographic history.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 14 x 21 x 0,5 cm., 64 pp., 70 color & b/w ills., bilingual text: English / French

Gebunden, mit Schutzumschlag, 22,5 x 30 cm., 360 S., 220 Abb., deutsch-sprachig - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

This second print run of the catalog volume on the work of reportage photographer Martin MUNKACSI, who shaped the beginnings of modern photojournalism, shows works from all phases as well as pictures that have not been seen since their first publication.

'Vagabond photographer' - here the edition in German language - is the first monograph about the Chilean Magnum photographer Sergio LARRAIN. It is divided into two main axes, Latin America and Europe, and also includes images from his book 'Valparaiso'.

English ed., 2nd print run! Linen bound HC, 17 x 23 x 6 cm., 862 pp., highly color illustrated, text language: English

The out-of-print 'Causes and Spirits' about William CARTER is both an autobiography and a study of people. Beginning in 1960it documents his travels around the world, from New York to Kurdistan, Dublin to Gaza, with landscapes that often yearn for people.

This retrospective photo volume about American photographer Henry WESSEL tracks his contribution to the 'New Topographics Movement' of the 1970s and continues through more than thirty years of incisive observations on the American social landscape.

This out-of-print catalog on the work of Jitka HANZLOVÁ gathers together her most important series from 1990 until those from the early 2020s. The photographs by the Czech photographer are equally captivating for their objectivity and their empathy.

This monograph on British photographer Tom Hunter brings together three bodies of work, 'Persons Unknown,' 'Travellers' & 'Life and Death in Hackney,' as well as the 'Swan Songs' series. Texts are by Michael Bracewell, Paul Shepheard, and Jean Wainwright.

HC, 21 x 29 cm., 192 pp.

'The Unseen Saul Leiter' shows for the first time 76 rediscovered works from an extraordinary photographic treasure trove of more than 40,000 color slides left by the American photographer at his death, only a fraction of which ever saw the light of day.

The out-of-print volume 'Transréalités' by Arthur TRESS contains photographs taken in Brooklyn & New York in the 1950s, including the dream images and fantasies that made him famous. The selection reflects in particular the influence of neo-realist film.

The catalog volume 'Arbeit / Work' accompanied the major Chris KILLIP retrospective exhibition 'Arbeit/Work. Photographs from 1969-2005'. It included early portraits for the first time and also included the projects made in Ireland and on the Isle of Man

A terrific introduction to the work of Lisette MODEL, one of the most important photographers of the 20th century - original format reissue. With 50 of her best images: rich idlers in the Southern France & sad, funny, often eccentric residents of New York