Staged photography

The winner of the First Book Award 2014 includes staged family photos. 'FROWST' refers to Bert Hellinger’s therapeutic method 'Family Constellations'; the title' takes up the paradoxical nature of the family: Frowsty rooms are both cozy and claustrophobic

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 22,5 x 27 x 2 cm., 96 pp., color ills., 700 gr., English

In her out-of-print photo volume 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Mother' German photo artist Katharina BOSSE openly deals with a blind spot of a society that otherwise does not shy away from interventions in the private sphere: the birth of a mother.

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.

HC with dust jacket, 23,5 x 31 cm., 116 pp., 54 color ills., text language: English

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 30 x 24 cm., 96 pp., 50 color ills., text language: English

The works by Jeff WALL collected here include large-format slides, b/w images & color photo prints. More recent images enter into a dialog with works from the time of his artistic beginnings and reveal a variety of references in terms of content & form.

In 'Mail Order', the female universe of Marianna ROTHEN is supplemented for the first time with men, but as mannequins that are outfitted by the protagonist. By reversing the power dynamics, the depth of role expectations between woman and man is revealed

Photo book 'Dioramas' by Hiroshi SUGIMOTO tells a story about the cycle of life, death and rebirth. He achieves the lively effect of the scenes in the series that began with his move from Tokyo (1976) to New York until 2012 through an elaborate production

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 25 x 32 cm., 160 pp., 106 color ills., 1.700 gr., trilingual text: German / English / French

This out-of-print photo volume, '1985-2005' by Gregory CREWDSON, for the first time brings together all the photographic productions by the American photo artist in one volume, including the previously unpublished series, 'Beneath the Roses'.

This volume, 'Homo Viksraitis' by Rimaldas VIKSRAITIS, shows staged situations taken in the countryside. There the Lithuanian photographer conducted man and animal - a rooster, a goat, a stork or a horse - for a performance in front of his photo camera.

For the volume 'Fashion Photography for America 1999-2016', German photographer Juergen TELLER photographed original W magazines and Barneys catalogs from his archives, a low-fi approach that emphasizes the physical process of reviewing his past work.

The catalog 'I need to live' captures the depth of Juergen TELLER's photographic achievement, the unconventional fusion of personal experience and his commercial work, realized in portraits, landscapes, nudes, still lifes and ever-changing self-portraits.

This out-of-print photo volume 'This empty world' by Nick BRANDT contains dramatically staged photographs that bring together and reveal animals and people in East Africa as victims of environmental destruction in an emotionally powerful, cinematic way.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 28 x 24 cm., 112 pp., 72 color ills., English

For this series, 'Vandalism' (1974/1975), John DIVOLA destroyed vacant houses. At a time when the 'truthfulness' of photography was being questioned, the series contributed to the conceptual sabotage of the boundaries between documentary & art photography

Catalog 'Strange Beauty' accompanies the first major Erwin OLAF solo exhibition in Germany. Highlightning key aspects of his oeuvre, it offers an overview of his work over the past 40 years. His latest works are also published here for the first time.

Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 26,5 x 31 x 3 cm., 492 S., S/W & Farb-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

Swiss brochure as HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 20 x 23 x 2 cm., 180 pp., b/w ills., trilingual: Lithuanian / English / German, Ltd. to 800 copies

'Shoot for the Moon', Tim WALKER's much-awaited follow-up, tells the story of fantasys other, darker side. Dazzlingly designed by Irma BOOM and lavishly produced and contains spectacular photographs, images that demand to be read as art as much as fashion

German catalogue edition, which accompanies the first major Erwin OLAF solo exhibition in Germany. Highlightning key aspects of his oeuvre, it offers an overview of his work over the past 40 years. His latest works are published here for the first time.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 20 x 27,5 x 2 cm., 128 pp., color ills., text language: English

Broschierte Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 26 x 30 x 3 cm., 280 S., 281 Aufnahmen. (davon 237 in Farbe), deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

'Catalogue Raisonné 1970-2004' is the first systematic compilation of information & materials on Jeff WALL's individual works, comprising works from 1978 to 2004 and including technical data as well as information on their history by the artist Jeff WALL.

For 'Quand même / Anyway / Nevertheless', Dorothée LEBRUN invited her neighbors during the pandemic to create a visual chronicle that parallel drama runs. A resolutely modern artist's book that belongs to a contemporary approach to documentary photography

'Stable Vices' by Joanna PIOTROWSKA is an ambitious photo volume that focuses on the concepts of protection, freedom and oppression, crystallizing a spectrum that runs like a thread through the Polish photographer's work and keeps driving her.

Presenting work from the earliest to contemporary photographers, out-of-print 'Making It Up: Photographic Fictions' puts paid to the fallacy that ‘the camera never lies’. These photographic fictions find new relevance in our so-called ‘post-truth’ age.

Broschiertes Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 18 x 23,5 x 2,5 cm., 192 S., etwa dreißig Farb-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

The monograph 'As far as I could get' on the work of California-based photographer John DIVOLA, covers four decades of his work and explores a total of ten large series. Anyone interested in contemporary American photography will appreciate this volume.

In her photo volume 'Shadows in Paradise', Marianna ROTHEN delves into a complex meditation on femininity. In the opaque narrative in the aesthetics of the 1960s, the presence of a gun visually combines with fear and melancholy in carefully staged scenes.

Out-of-print volume 'Sanctuary' by Gregory CREWDSON is set in the Italian film town of Cinecittà, where masterpieces by Frederico Fellini & Roberto Rossellini were once made. For his atmospheric black-and-white shots, he worked mainly with natural light.

In his out-of-print book of photographs, Chinese photographer Wang QINGSONG pokes fun at consumerism, materialism and commercialism and their growing importance by combining symbols that originated in the East with those of the Western market.

The volume 'Walter Hege and Herbert List. Griechische Tempelarchitektur in photographischer Inszenierung' by Matthias Harder examines two basic photographic convictions on the basis of images from the 1920s and 1930s: contextual accuracy versus alienation

Out-of-print 'Small Wars' by Vietnamese-born photographer An-My LÉ in 1960 brings together 3 series in 1 book that are both documentary & staged: Images from her homeland processing the Vietnam War, battle compositions and military exercises in the desert