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Slipcased DVD (PAL,) approx. 75 min., English

Out-of-print publication reconstructs the process of the creation of the book 'Love on the Left Bank' by Dutch photographer Ed van der ELSKEN on the basis of unpublished documents - contact prints, sketches, maps - as well as a text by Tamara Berghmans.

In 'Fotografiegeschichte der Abstraktion' (Photographic history of abstraction), Kathrin Schönegg traces the history of photography: from the experimental beginnings in the 1830s, through (pseudo)scientific, applied & artistic contexts, to digitalization.

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

Gebundene Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 17 x 24 x 2,5 cm., 300 S., 20 Farb- u. 200 SW-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

'Mauvais genre' presents views of men and women at the intersection of private life, the history of homosexuality, and feminist activism. Christine Bard and Isabelle Bonnet shed light on this often-silenced aspect through photos from Lifshitz collection.

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

English or German. Based on Helmar LERSKI's series 'Metamorphosis', this compendium, 'Faces. The power of the face', brings togehter portraits from the time of the Weimar Republic. Experiments, feminist role-playing games and political ideologies collide.

'Ein gutes Bild muss scharf sein' closes a gap in the literature about Arnold ODERMATT, who as a self-taught photographer in the post-war period recorded accidents, police service, everyday life as well as his family with his 6x6 medium format camera.

'Cologne and its photo books. Cologne in the photo book from 1853 to 2010 'by Werner Schäfke shows the city as a large puzzle. Whether published in-house, on behalf of the city or industry, they document the diversity of this old & young Rhine metropolis.

Richly illustrated compendium with many readable and interesting essays. The extensive field of amateur or commercial photography is examined: pictures that were created for bureaucracy, commerce & for personal commemoration - in contrast to artistic use.

Volume #11 in the book series on legedary & rare photo volumes, 'Alexey BRODOVITCH. Ballet', reproduces each dynamic double-page spread from this rarely seen volume along with a contemporary essay by leading BRODOVITCH connoisseur Kerry William Purcell.

HC, 31,5 x 28,5 cm., 168 pp., color ills., text language: English

by Fred Ritchie and Carole Naggar (eds), HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21,5 x 29 x 3 cm., 272 pp., 1,600 ills., text language: English

The volume 'Gedruckt und erblättert' deals about the photobook as a medium of aestethic articulation and contains recent contributions from art scholars on the subject, discussing the photobook as a cultural-historical, social as well as political medium.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued,), 16 x 24 x 2 cm., 296 pp., 140 quadri color & b/w ills., 950 gr., text language: English

This 2nd volume, 'Conversations 2', by Rémi Coignet contains a set of 15 talks he did with players in contemporary photography to investigate the role of the volumes in the work of photographers, designers & publishers - and how their books are designed.

In 'Conversations', Rémi Coignet explores in interviews the question of what role the photo book plays in the work of photographers, designers & publishers and how their titles are conceived. Two more volumes with interviews have been published until now.

Broschierte Ausgabe (ohne Schutzumschlag, wie erschienen), 10 x 19 x 1,0 cm., 88 S., deutsch-sprachiger Text - TEXT ONLY IN GERMAN AVAILABLE!

English edition. The text and picture book 'Andy Warhol. EXHIBITS a glittering alternative' explores the exhibition strategies of the American artist Andy WARHOL. It presents probably the most famous icon of Pop Art as an installation artist and curator.

Broschierte Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 12,5 x 20,5 x 1 cm., 112 S., 60 S/W-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

With books by John HEARTFIELD, MUYBRIDGE and many more. HC with dust jacket, as issued, 23 x 32 x 3 cm., 464 pp., color ills., 2,7oo gr., text language: English

'The Complete Essays' contains 68 texts by Luigi GHIRRI in which he discusses returning themes in his photographic work. It is also an unintentional, yet comprehensive treatise on the history and theory of photography, as well as a special autobiography.

'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.

In January 2020, Alec SOTH received a letter from a prison inmate asking the photographer for a dialogue. 'The Parameters of our Cage' contains the following correspondence in times of COVID-19 pandemic, 'Black Lives Matter' movement and civil unrest.

'But Still, It Turns', a photo and text book edited by prominent British photo artist Paul GRAHAM, brings together collected dynamic and diverse works that tell open stories. These are brought together in this volume - in harmony and revealing dissonance.

In the book 'Over Time: Conversations about Documents and Dreams', Alessandra SANGUINETTI reflects with her cousins on the 'The Adventures of Guille and Belinda' series and its development. The in-depth conversation is illustrated with unpublished images

Actual print run, HC, 25 x 29 x 3,5 cm., 336 pp., text language: English

For his photobook compendium 'Canon. On African Photobooks', Johannes Wohnseifer selected titles from his private collection that focus on the African continent. These photobooks, published between 1948 and 2011, are presented here in chronological order.

'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

Broschierte Ausgabe (ohne Schutzumschlag, wie erschienen), 10 x 19 x 1,0 cm., 76 S., deutsch-sprachiger Text - TEXT ONLY IN GERMAN AVAILABLE!

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued),

HC with dust jacket, 18,5 x 24 x 2,5 cm. (9,5 x 7 in.), 160 pp., 120 duotone b/w ills., English

English ed., eight slipcased pbs. (no dust jackets, as issued), 19 x 26 x 3 cm., 112 pp., text language: English

'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.

Pb., 19 x 24 cm., 224 pp., b/w ills., text language: German - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

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.

Photo & text book 'Man redet immer zu viel' (You always talk too much) contains twelve interviews with Henri CARTIER-BRESSON from almost fifty years. In view of the flood of secondary literature, he provides authentic information about his life and work.

Thread-sewn pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 28,5 cm., 304 pp., 299 b/w ills., bilingual text: German / English

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 27 x 2 cm., 272 pp., 136 color & 61 b/w ills., text language: English

'Das Positiv' shows the concept of visualization, in which photographers imagine the final image in all its tonal gradation even before taking the picture. Ansel ADAMS points out all the possibilities that make the work on the positive a creative process.

HC with dust jacket, 24 x 32 x 4 cm., 383 pp., color ills., text language: English

'Mining Photography: The Ecological Footprint of Image Production' is dedicated to the material history of key raw materials in the context of photography, their dependence and establishs the connection to the history of mining, disposal & climate change.

Gebundene Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 18 x 24,5 x 2,5 cm., 224 S., S/W-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

Photo-text volume 'The Düsseldorf School of Photography' traces its ascendancy from the mid-1970s. Filled with superb reproductions of the artists' best-known pictures, this compendium offers the first encyclopaedic overview of this important movement.

'Looking at Ansel Adams' is an immersive study that explores his life as an artist by illuminating the stories behind twenty of his most significant images. Lesser-known but equally important photographs provide unexpected insights into his personal life.

The focus of the catalog illuminating the early phase of the BECHER school is on the mutual influences between the image concepts emerging in Düsseldorf and the innovations of the 'New-Color Photography' and the 'New Topographics' movement in the U.S..

'Modern Instances: The Craft of Photography' by Stephen SHORE, with its essays, photos and stories,

HC with dust jacket, ca. 18 x 24 x 1,5 cm., 96 pp., (9,5 x 7 in.), 50 duotone b/w ills. text language: English

'In Search of African American Space. Redressing Racism' examines the relationship between the African Diaspora in the USA to identify a trans-historical moment in the time since the end of slavery, questioning the traditional understanding of spatiality.

Broschierte Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 17,5 x 25 cm., 401 S., zahlr. S/W Foto-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

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.

With photo works by Roger FENTON, Robert CAPA, Lewis HINE, Larry BURROWS, James NACHTWEY, Mary Ellen MARK, Sebastian SALGADO, Frank HURLEY and many more

The compendium includes many international photographers of diff. groups & schools of 20th century (New Vision, Straight Photography, New Topographics, New Color, Becher School), collected by Gallery Kicken in Berlin to celebrate their 30's birthday.

Gebundene Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 27 x 29 x 5 cm., 656 S., etwa 2.000 Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

The photo book 'Dr. Paul Wolff & Alfred Tritschler. Printed Images' shows how 35mm Leica photography changed society and consumers in the Weimar Republic period and the 'Third Reich', and the leading role played by the two photographers in this process.

In the sequel to the successful 'Helsinki School' series, this compendium 'Volume 3. Young Photography by Taik', Timothy Persons presents seventeen young artists and their incredibly multifaceted, experimental works of great technical perfection.

'VERY' not only covers the period from the 1960s, but also shows the technically and graphically new approaches in Ed RUSCHA's work. An essay by George Condo and an interview by the curator of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art round off the volume.

The third volume in the series 'Conversations' by Remi Coignet also contains interviews with participants from the international photo scene on the role of the photo book in the work of photographers, designers & publishers, as well as their book design.

This compendium of South African photography, 'Figures & Fictions', offers a first overview of contemporary photography in this part of the African continent and brings together well-known photographers.

A primer for understanding photographs. 'The Nature of Photographs' by Stephen SHORE is based on his teaching at Bard College. It is an indispensable tool for students, teachers & anyone who wants to take better pictures or learn to look more consciously.

In the volume 'Raum und Bild' (Space and Image), a dialog between applied & artistic photography unfolds from the comparison of images by Candida HÖFER with interiors from the over 150-year-old photography collection at the Museum für Fotografie in Berlin

Photo volume 'Life is Good & Good for You in New York' by William KLEIN is regarded as one of the most influential books in the last half-century - here reproduced in its entirety as brilliantly photographed & designed opus as a complete photobook study.

With Photo essays by Henri CARTIER-BRESSON, Walker EVANS, Nan GOLDIN, W. Eugene SMITH, Mary Ellen MARK, Sebastiao SALGADO and James NACHTWEY

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?

The German-language text volume 'About my artists' contains speeches, lectures, texts about German and international photographers, artists, friends, books and works on the 75th birthday of the publisher's founder and director Lothar Schirmer.

Heine, Achim / Rebekka Reuter / Ulrike Willingmann (eds) - HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 25,5 x 32,5 cm., 192 pp., 230 color ills., bilingual texts: German / English. Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2011.

HC with dust jacket, 18,5 x 24 x 2,5 cm. (9,5 x 7 in.), 176 pp., 120 duotone b/w ills., English

The new thematic volume of 'Trigger' series deals with 'UNCERTAINTY' (uncertainty) in photography as well as in photo books. 'Trigger # 2' includes contributions from Liz Orton, Duncan Forbes, Max Pinckers, Fred Ritchin and Wilco Versteeg, among others.

With books by Günther FÖRG and Ed RUSCHA

HC with dust jacket, 23,5 x 28 x 3 cm., (with works by Edouard BALDUS, Mathew BRADY, Louis DE CLERCQ, Maxime DU CAMP, Roger FENTON, Jean-Baptiste FRENET, Charles HUGO und David Octavius HÜGEL, Robert ADAMSON, Gustave LE GRAY and many more

In 'Das Perfekte Bild' (Perfect Picture), Paul Lowe uses famous photographs to explain the most important tricks of the trade and covers every genre In addition, the book offers helpful tips on career planning and self-marketing for aspiring photographers

by Nina Kloepper (ed.) With photo works by Karl BLOSSFELDT, Alfred EHRHARDT, Bernd und Hilla BECHER, Hiroshi SUGIMOTO and Claudia FÄHRENKEMPER

The book 'Walker Evans. America Leben und Kunst' by Svetlana Alpers about the photograph & heroe traces the phenomenon of a work whose author claimed that photography was the most literary of the visual arts. Afterword and translation are by Wolfgang Kemp

from Anna Kasia Rastenberger, Iris Sikking. Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 17 x 23 x 3 cm., 368 pp., text language: English

18x linen bound HC with dust jackets (mostly), each book: 18,5 x 24 cm. (9,5 x 7 in.), with duotone b/w &/or color ills., text langiage: English

Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 255 S., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEX ONLY!

Broschierte Ausgabe (ohne Schutzumschlag, wie erschienen), 10 x 19 x 1,0 cm., 84 S., deutsch-sprachiger Text - TEXT ONLY IN GERMAN AVAILABLE!

'Sibylle' showcases photographers, fashion- & graphic designers, models, writers as well as its political & sociocultural background of almost 50 year long publishing history as the definitive publication on an important chapter of German media history.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 16 x 22 cm., 168 pp., b/w & color ills., Italian / English

Signed & numbered photo book 'White and Vinegar' by Daido MORIYAMA brings together images and selected essays he has written since his youth over 40 years ago. The b/w images were shot from nearly square instant prints and then cropped to 35mm film format

The out-of-print volume 'frank films. The Film and Video work' offers a visually unique approach. Each film is introduced with a detailed analysis discussing the history and aesthetics of his film work, complemented by an interview with Allen Ginsberg.

Out-of-print, German-English language 'Dear Aby Warburg. What can be done with images?' traces the specific artistic practice in dealing with photographic material and makes it clear that context & actualization are decisive for the meaning of photographs

The out-of-print photo and text volume, 'Berenice Abbott. Eugène Atget' by Clark Worswick describes the American photographer ABBOTT's vision of the French photographer ATGET, who single-handedly changed photographic modernism in the twentieth century.

This part of the two-volume work, 'Autopsie. Volume 1', by photo book expert Manfred HEITING presents the German-language titles of the interwar period in all their variety. The focus lies on the German-speaking countries and the period from 1918 to 1945.

von Horacio Fernández, ed. With titles by ABBOTT, ARAKI, BEATON, BISCHOF, CARTIER-BRESSON, DAVIDSON, DEPARDON, EVANS, A.FISCHER, GILDEN, HAAS, HOFER, KERTÉSZ, KITAJIMA, W.KLEIN, LEVITT, LÖRINCZY, LYON, MORIYAMA, NAAR, PERESS, SCHLES, SISKIND, WEEGEE, a.o.

'Francis Bacon. In the Mirror of Photography: Collecting, Preparatory Practice & Painting' by Katharina Günther combines pictorial starting points, describes and interprets recurring patterns & methods of his work and the appropriation of photo material.

SCwith dust jacket (poster's fold out cover), 17,5 x 24 cm., 320 pp., highly illustrated, Dutch / English

SC with dust jacket (a two-sided poster), 29 x 20 x 2,5 cm., 244 pp., highly illustrated, English, Ltd. to 600 copies

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 20,5 x 28 cm., 300 pp., Color & b/w ills., text language: German - GERMAN TEXT ONLY! Prestel, 2002.

'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.

Vol.2 of the 'Books on Books' series deals with the classic photo book 'American Photographs' by Walker EVANS. With its legendary 87 black and white photos that defined the documentary aesthetic, it is arguably the most important photo book ever published

Our world is at a tipping point. In her book 'Rethinking Our World', leading economist Maja Göpel shows another path forward. She chooses enlightening examples to illustrate how we can leave behind our familiar ways of living to achieve a better future.

Actual print run, HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 17,5 x 22 x 4 cm., 352 pp., color & b/w ills., text language:. Taschen 2008 (2005).

With works by Robert FRANK, Garry WINOGRAND, Joel STERNFELD, William EGGLESTON, Alec SOTH, Victor BURGIN, Taino ONORATO & Nico KREBS and many more

by Hannah DARABI (ed.) Thread-sewn pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 33 cm., 540 pp., approx. 750 b/w & col. ills.,

With works by EISENSTAEDT, ERFURTH, FINSLER, FLACH, JACOBI, Paul W. JOHN, KRANZ, MANTZ, MUNKACSI, RENGER-PATZSCH, ROH, SALOMON, SANDER, SCHAFGANS, SEIDENSTÜCKER, STANKOWSKI, UMBO & more

HC with dust jacket, 18,5 x 24 x 2 cm. (9,5 x 7 in.), 108 pp., 65 duotone b/w ills., text language: English