Russia

In his ongoing 'City Diary' project, Anders PETERSEN - awarded with the Dr.-Erich-Salomon-Award, DGPh - examines the less public side of urban life, in volumes #1 to #3, he photographed such different cities like Stockholm, Tokyo as well as St. Petersburg

The Anti-War book 'Kriegsfibel' (War primer) by Bertolt Brecht and Ruth Berlau processes press photos from the Second World War. Images of machines and gruesome scenes were given new captions, socialist-realist epigrams to give the scenes a primal meaning

2nd print run - Screen printed, handmade HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 15,5, x 21,5 x 2 cm., 125 pp., 70 color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 700 copies

2nd print run, pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 24,5 x 30 cm., 46 pp., b/w ills., bilingual text: English / Lithuanian

For her out-of-print book 'Sailboats and Swans', Michal CHELBIN portrayed prison inmates in Ukraine & Russia. The portraits oscillate between strangeness and reality. The title refers to the wallpaper that often adorns walls and hallways of these prisons.

Special ed. with Print, 'Stillleben mit Himbeeren und Birnen' (Fine art print, 24 × 30 cm.), folder with print and book, signed, Ltd. to 50 copies. Also available as trade edition without print

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 26 x 2 cm., 91 pp., 46 b/w ills., text language: English. Ltd. ed. to 600 copies

'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.

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

Linen bound HC with dust jacket, 29 x 33 x 3 cm., 344 pp., b/w ills., trilingual text: English / German / French

'Life and Work' about Andrei TARKOVSKY brings together film stills, Polaroids & documentary photos for each of his films, writings and private photos. A tribute to a great visionary who thought in poetic, often disturbing images of almost biblical force.

HC, 15 x 21 cm., 48 pp., Ltd. to 750 copies

Out-of-print 'Moments in History' focuses on those works Margaret BOURKE-WHITE made in the 1930s and 40s in Czechia, Germany, Italy, the Soviet Union as well as in the UK. It shows photographs and excerpts from letters as well as publications in magazines

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 31 x 21,5 x 2 cm., 176 pp., color ills., bilingual texts: Japanese / English

Pb. with American dust jacket, 24 x 28 cm., 184 pp., 94 color & 27 b/w ills., trilingual text: English, German, Russian Available Artist: Beat Schweizer Editor: Kanton Bern, WERK-BUCH / ŒUVRE D’ARTISTE Texts: Tanja Achlomova, Mischa Danov, Urs Mannhart,

'The Unknown' by Rob HORNSTRA shows previously unseen portraits taken in 2003, while travelling through the Russia, working on 'Communism & Cowgirls'. The negatives remained untouched for years -what has happened to the people he photographed years ago?

Unlike in his thematic stories, out-of-print book 'Jahrebuch' by Ulrich WÜST reveals something very personal & private. Here, the world seems to be surrounded by a melancholy veil that does not conceal anything, but rather reveals the precision of vision.

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

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 29 x 24 x 1,5 cm., 72 pp., color ills., text language: English

Swiss bound HC with tipped-in photograph (no dust jacket, as issued), 26,5 x 29 x 2 cm., 102 pp., 50 ills. (11 in color, 39 b/w), English, Ltd. to 600 copies

Art historian Ian Jeffrey has sifted through WWII soldier albums and selected the most compelling photos to create a record of lives that have seen the unprecedented. Style & content of the photographs changed along with the collective mood after 1942.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 22 x 24 cm., 72 pp., 30 color ills., multi-lingual text: German / Russian / English

Pb., 7 x 8¾", 132 pp., 64 color ills., handwritten text, bilingual texts: English / Georgian, Ltd. to only 87 handmade copies

HC with dust jacket, 25,5 x 34 x 2 cm., 104 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

HC with dust jacket, 26,5 x 24 x 1,5 cm., 88 pp., 63 color ills., bilingual: German / English

2nd printrun, linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 20 x 26,5 x 1,5 cm., 96 pp., 41 color ills., bilingual texts: English / German

'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.

SC, 17 x 24 cm., 52 pp., 39 b/w ills., English, Ltd. to 1,000 copies

HC with dust jacket, 21,5 x 32 x 1 cm., 88 pp., 39 b/w ills.,

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

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 25,5 x 29,5 x 2,5 cm. (10 x 11 5/8 in.), 172 pp. (incl. 16 fold-outs), index, text language: English, Ltd. to 1,000 copies

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 35 x 29 x 2,5 cm., 192 pp., 106 color ills., bilingual texts: German / English

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 22 x 1 cm., 88 pp., 43 color ills., bilingual texts: German / English

A state and its institutions are disintegrating. Mikhail Gorbachev loses control of the state. This was the last winter of the USSR. In the photo book 'Final Winter. 1990/91' Michael KERSTGENS describes everyday life in this difficult time in Moscow.

Pb. in unopened plastic bag (no dust jacket, as issued), 17,5 x 20,5 x 2,5 cm. (6 7/8 x 8 in.), 172 pp., color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 1,000 copies

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 17,5 x 24,5 x 2 cm, digital printed color ills., text language: English - Ltd. to 27 numbered copies

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 30 x 3 cm., 288 pp., 350 ills. (50 in color & 300 duotone), bilingual text: English / German

In is photo volume 'Siberian Summer', Olaf Otto BECKER documents the inhospitable formations of earth and ice that tower like abstract sculptures above wet beaches in the permafrost zone, a group of researchers and the half-ruined port city of Tiksi.

For 'Arrivals and Departures' Jacob Aue SOBOL photographed twins in their home in Moscow, chased hunters in the mountains of Ulan-Bator and hurried pedestrians in busy Beijing. A photographic journey whose common thread are only the rails of the Transsib.

'Aloe' describes the spirit of a youth subculture community. In addition to many photos, the artist book contains many hand-glued inserts and stickers. The nostalgic book design takes up school questionnaires for friends, as they were popular in the 2000s

The photo volume 'Romareisen' by Joakim ESKILDSEN is the result of a long-term project and a very personal document of Roma encounters in seven countries. Together with the music CD as a supplement, it gives a deep insight into their everyday life & life.

The out-of-print volume, 'Später Sommer. Letzter Herbst', follows in sequence & format the handmade leporello 'Später Sommer/Letzter Herbst' by Ulrich WÜST, transforming it into a book and brings together series as well as some individual images from 1989

SC, 22,5 x 30 cm., 96 pp., 53 color ills., German & English, Ltd. to 150 signed copies

The out-of-print book 'Escape' by Danila TKACHENKO is about men who have turned their backs on society to live alone in the wilderness of the Russian and Ukrainian forests. It raises the question of their own personal freedom and the possible consequences

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 17 x 21,5 x 2 cm., 160 pp., 123 color & b/w ills., bilingual text: English / Belorussian

'CCCP Underground' by Frank HERFORT shows metro systems of the Soviet era. From Moscow to Bucharest, Baku to Tbilisi, they come together to form a holistic, comprehensive representation of socialist art which relates to people's everyday lives to this day

3 x SC in slipcase, 20,5 x 28 x 6 cm., 580 pp.

Linen bound HC with dust jacket, 21,5 x 30 x 2 cm.,