Spain

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.

In 'Tierra' Espe PONS invites us to delve deeper into memory, through places that have been marked by the trauma of the Spanish Civil War. The images urge us to examine the surroundings we pass by every day, to see them ias a repository of silent pain.

'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

Catalan photographer Txema SALVANS' keen view of contemporary Spanish society. In the photo book 'My Kingdom' he combines black and white photos with quotes from the political rhetoric of the former King of Spain. This methodology makes emotions visible.

For his volume 'Wall and Peace', Kai WIEDENHÖFER has documented walls and barrier fences all over the world: in Berlin, Belfast, Mexico, Ceuta & Melilla, in Baghdad and the wall on the border line with the West Bank, with the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Egypt.

For this out-of-print photo volume, 'Roma', Joseph KOUDELKA has revised and expanded 'Gypsies'. This book contains all black-and-white photographs taken between 1962 and 1971 from Bohemia, Moravia, Slovakia, Romania, Hungary, France as well as from Spain.

A humorous documentary film that shows how a photo book is created and watches 'real characters' at work: filmmaker Xarlos SAURA & publisher Gerhard Steidl.

'Galerna' is part of a long-term project in which Basque photographer Jon CAZENAVE questions his identity & territorial belonging. He makes a personal cut and frees himself from his insatiable thirst for black after a decade of uncompromising photography.

Staple bound pb. in plastic bag, 15 x 20 x 0,5 cm., 48 pp., 28 b/w ills., bilingual texts: Spanish / English

The photo book 'Vanished Spain. España Años 50' offers a comprehensive insight into the photography of Spanish filmaker Carlos SAURA, focussed on his b/w work of the 1950s: convincing images of landscapes, villages, bullfights & people from another time.

Perfect Day' by Txema SALVANS shows Spain's holidaymakers in unexpected corners of the post-industrial landscape.The pursuit of leisure time defies the built environment with a deeply human determination to find peace against all odds.

The photo book 'A les 8 al Bar Eusebi' pays tribute to the Eixample district in Barcelona and its people. Salvi DANÉS describes the atmosphere of a glorious time, surrounded by rust and mistrust, through gestures, glances and skilfully chosen details.

HC, 24 x 29,5 cm., 104 pp., 80 color ills., text language: English

HC with dustjacket, 16,5 x 23 cm., 80 pp., color ills., Spanish / English, Ltd. to 300 copies

Clothbound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 20 x 24 cm. 105 pp., b/w ills.,

Ringbinded carton, 19 x 24 cm., 68 pp., approx. 24 color ills., Ltd. to 100 copies, bilingual text: Spanish / English

In addition to the famous photos by war photographer Robert CAPA, this catalog volume 'Retrospective' shows some unpublished photos such as those from the Tour de France, 1939. Numerous artist portraits round off the picture of a surprisingly diverse work

Re-edit, broschierte Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 24 x 30,5 x 2 cm., 224 S., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

This volume, 'Gerda Taro. The Inventing des Robert Capa' by Jane Rogoyska, traces the life of Gerda TARO and reveals the depth of her relationship with Robert CAPA. Charismatic & very special they embodied one of the most turbulent periods of the century.

In her German-language volume 'Das Leiden anderer betrachten,' Susan Sontag recapitulates the historical development of war photography from Spanish Civil War to Afghanistan, and asks: what does the sight of a suffering human being trigger in the viewer?

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 18,5 x 22 cm., 58 color ills., multi-lingual text: French / English / Spanish

In the book 'Verlassene Ort' (Abandoned Places) various photographers document the beautiful and at the same time eerie atmosphere of places where decay has set in and nature has returned. The history & present of these places are explained in short texts

New York based photographer Bill PERLMUTTER traveled through Europe on behalf of the US Army from 1954. 'Europe in the Fifties. Through a Soldier's Lens' shows a selection of his b/w 6 x 6 Rolleiflex photos from Germany, France, Italy, Portugal and Spain.

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.

'Photobooks: Spain 1905-1997' documents and illustrate 30 titles; in his text, Horacio Fernández informs an overview of several hundred other titles. A new chapter in the history of photography written in recent years by the rediscovery of the photobook.

With the photo book 'Spanish Summer' JOHANSSON returns to one of the first places that fired his imagination: the plains of central Spain. In precise compositions an din b/w, a landscape is surveyed in which cultural traces have been etched for millennia.

For 'Al Escondite' the Spanish photographer Cristóbal HARA searched his archive and found for his second of currently six 'Trivial Essays' some photographs in B&W and colorful from the years 1969-2013, which revolve around the theme of hide&seek.

HC with print (no dust jacket, as issued), 24,5 x 29,5 cm., 128 pp., 90 ills., text language: English

In his photo volume 'Autobiography' Cristóbal HARA uses images from today's Spain and filters them through the emotional memories of his childhood. The result is a deep insight into Spanish culture and the cultural breeding ground of a whole generation.

This version of 'Gypsies' by Joseph KOUDELKA represents the first realization of the original maquette, which was created by the photographer together with graphic artist Milan Kopřiva in 1968 and was originally intended to be published in Prague in 1970.

This monograph, 'Cristóbal Hara. Spanish Colour 1985-2020', brings together the color photographs of the legend, who sees himself in the tradition of Spanish painting. His subjects are everyday life, bullfighting, and again and again the Catholic religion

Paperback, 24 x 33 cm., 52 pp., Ltd. to 300 numbered copies

The out-of-print book 'Barcelona 1957' by Leopoldo POMÉS is a journey through a vanished world as well as a narrative. The images are characterized by timelessness and aesthetic beauty, which lie in the spontaneity as well as seemingly simple compositions

'Archipelago' is the first photo volume of the 'Los Ensayos Banales' series by Spanish photographer Cristóbal HARA. His essays allow him to address individual aspects of his work, illustrating them with images that show a sample of his work over 40 years.

For 'Give me your Image' renowned Dutch photographer Bertien van MANEN traveled through Europe to document family photos and collect traces of war & oppression, of happiness & sadness. The result: a century of history in encounters of eyes, minds, hearts.

This small edition of 'Gypsies' is based on the original maquette, prepared by KOUDELKA with Milan KOPRIVA in 1968. Will Guy, author of the text that accompanied the 1st ed. of 'Gypsies', contributes an entirely new essay tracing the migration of the Roma

This out-of-print photo volume 'Latvia, Spain' by Koji ONAKA describes in documentary style his view on the two EU countries Latvia and Spain. It is volume #3 of the series 'Europe Today 2004-2005', whose speciality lies in the typical photographers view.

'Ama Lur' by Jon CAZENAVE challenges the notion of the frontier. By revealing an area charged with history and magic, he wants to (re)connect us with the ancient spirit of humanity as well as remind us of our balance with nature that leads us to this day.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 15 x 19 x 2,5 cm., 128 pp., 67 color ills., text language: English

HC with dust jacket,

Out-of-print book 'Color' shows selected works by Joachim BROHM, one of the most prominent representatives of color photography of his generation in Germany: 'Ruhr' (1982-1983), 'Ohio' (1983-1984), 'Areal' (1992-2002), 'Culatra' (2008-2010) and some more

'Raval' by Joan COLOM combines the modernist avant-garde of the 50s with the 'dark', pessimistic tradition of Franco-era Spain. For years he explored the Raval neighborhood in Barcelona, now 'Barrio Chino', sawing himself as a witness to a social theater.

In his now out-of-print photo volume 'America', Ulrich GEBERT documents the living conditions of African migrants around the orange harvest in Spain. The photo book closes with a trilingual text contribution (in English, Spanish, German) by Jens Kastner.

The book 'Hommage' for the retrospective on the work of Inge MORATH shows the whole spectrum and the - perhaps feminine? - subtlety of her work. An autobiographical speech she gave in Berlin is the main text of the German-English accompanying publication.

In this volume, 'Blood Orange / Naranja de Sangre', Liza AMBROSSIO, infected by the aesthetics of Japanese counterculture and Aztec rituals of human sacrifice, she mixes psychological techniques of manipulation, with science, fiction, eruro & witchcraft.

'Photographs', published to accompany the Alberto GARCÍA-ALIX retrospective, contains B&W photographs from 1975 to 1997. In addition to included chronology, bibliography, and a selection of critical texts, it is supplemented by a series of reflections.

In 'A Spanish Festival', Kurt KAINDL documents the 'Romería del Rocío', to which the pilgrims arrive every year at Whitsun from all over Spain to celebrate the cult of the Holy Spirit and pay homage to the Virgin Mary. These b/w photos were made in 2000.

The 'Dirk-ALVERMANN-Photobook-Library' currently contains one copy each of nine publications, which are already out of print at their publishers. Some of the books are SIGNED, like 'Keine Experimente' (1961), 'Zwischen den Zeiten' (2006) & 'dacapo' (2008)