Workers

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.

The out-of-print and hard-to-find volume 'In Search of Dignity and Justice. The untold story of Conservancy Workers in Mumbai' by Sudharak OLWE shows the fate of workers in Bombay. It contains fourty-six mostly full-paged b/w images and six pages of text.

In 'The Screw', Akihito YOSHIDA shows people who make the 'screws' of ships in small workshop in Bangladesh. They work together to create a cold, hard metal by pouring molten red liquid, like magma, into the pitch-black ground, covered with iron sand.

'Pittsburgh Grease Plant 1944/46' contains previously unpublished photographs by Gordon PARKS, focusing for the first time on his work for the Standard Oil Company, an important chapter before his groundbreaking career as a photographer for Life Magazine.

The catalog 'Fortschritt als Versprechen' (Progress as promise. Industrial photography in divided Germany) places commissioned works in the context of their contemporary use for the first time. The focus is on the concepts linked in East and West Germany.

'Vier Frauen. Vier Lebensläufe: Fotografieren in der DDR' focuses on female photographers from Saxony - Christine STEPHAN-BROSCH, Evelyn KRULL, Gerdi SIPPEL and May VOIGT - who are representative of a large number, some of whom have almost been forgotten.

In 'The Transported of Kwandebele' David GOLDBLATT documents journeys by workers as a metaphor for their arduous struggle toward freedom. In unsentimental or artifical images, the grim determination of the people to survive emerges in almost heroic terms.

The images taken during the 'Great Depression' in the USA in the out-of-print book 'When Innovation Was King' by Lewis HINE and the message they contain are particularly relevant today in the face of high unemployment in a rapidly changing global economy.