Berlin

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)

The out-of-print volume 'Half Life' by Michael ACKERMAN with images from Poland, Cuba, New York, Berlin and elsewhere, is hard to place. A hallucinated array of images of exile and of phantoms, in which places and people absorb us into the same black aura

Out-of-print 'Berlin' by Raymond DEPARDON contains images, made between 1961 and 2013: the construction of the Berlin Wall, the arrival of Robert Kennedy / Queen Elisabeth, the fall of the Wall, and the reconstruction of two sides of an abandoned frontier

The catalog title 'Indstillinger', means both on the camera setting and the personal attitude of Danish photographer Krass CLEMENT. We see works from several known books: Roskilde, Faergen, Novemberrejse and there are also many unknown photos to discover.

'Berlin on a Dog's Night' by Gundula SCHULZE ELDOWY contains images made in old East Berlin from the cycles 'Berlin in einer Hundenacht', 'Der Wind füllt sich mit Wasser', 'Aktporträt', 'Arbeit', 'Straßenbild' & 'Tamerlan' together for the first time.

The out-of-print catalog for huge Michael SCHMIDT retrospective, took place in Berlin, includes well-known and rarely seen works as well as the very informative texts by renowned authors can already be considered a reference work about Berlin photographer

In the volume 'DDR Ansichten. Views of a Vanished Country', Thomas HOEPKER documents life and the GDR from 1959 until the fall of the Berlin Wall: rallies, dilapidated facades & prefabricated buildings, empty display cases as well as portraits of artists.

The out-of-print photo book 'Venten på i går. Waiting for yesterday' by Danish photographer Krass CLEMENT brings together (some full-page) color as well as black-and-white photographs from East Berlin before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall. No text.

This catalog volume, 'Photographs 1984-2009' is the first monograph on Boris BECKER, who studied with Bernd & Hilla BECHER. All important series of works are shown. In it he concentrates in a special way on formal structures as well as color accents.

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.

Actual printrun, HC with dust jacket, 27,5 x 23,5 x 2,5 cm., 184 pp., bilingual text: German / English (with 8 pp. insert)

2nd print run, linen bound HC with dust jacket, 26,5 x 24,5 x 1,5 cm., 120 pp., b/w ills., text language: German (the insert with three columns of text 'Berlin-Wedding' by Thomas Weski is bilingual: German / English)

The images in 'Berlin' by Daisuke YOKOTA exhibit his signature experimental processing techniques whilst also demonstrating unconventional shooting methods like re-appropriating thermographic & infrared cameras and rendering the images onto analog film.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 26 x 23,5 x 1,5 cm., 84 pp., 41 b/w & color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 750 copies

The out-of-print volume 'Seiltänze' by Wolfgang KROLOW is a photo book from and about Kreuzberg, Berlin. It contains black-and-white photographs showing alldays life in the early 1980s. The texts are by Rolf Hosfeld and Peter-Paul Zahl.

'Eva Besnyö. Photographer. Budapest - Berlin - Amsterdam' is a catalog whose photographs cover the six-decade-long creative period of the Hungarian photographer as well as the areas of street-, architectural and, last but not least, portrait photography.

'We Have No Place to Be: 1980-1982' (Liverpool, London, Nuremberg, West Berlin, New York and Tokyo) - here in a newly edited and expanded edition - by Joji HASHIGUCHI remains widely regarded as one of his seminal early works alongside his debut 'Shisen'.

The book 'Von Ort zu Ort / The 12 Year Walk) by Thorsten BAENSCH is a long-term project documenting a trek through seven countries. This illustrated travelogue takes the reader on a journey marked by various leitmotifs such as danger, death, and nature

The catalog volume for the exhibition 'Die Neue Sachlichkeit' at Centre Pompidou shows 32 photographs by August SANDER, surrounded by artists and subjects from painting & sculpture, design & architecture, photography, film & graphics, theater & literature

Out-of-print volume 'Raise the Bar' by Taiyo ONORATO & Nico KREBS deals with the distortion of perception by constructing outlines and frames of buildings in Berlin from reclaimed wood, which at the same time connects them with buildings in the distance.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 30 x 2 cm., 200 pp., text language: English

The photo book 'Brandmauern' (firewalls) by Harf ZIMMERMANN contains traces of the bombings of the Second World War, with bullet holes, bomb splinters and outlines of past buildings, whether densely overgrown, bare or covered with graffiti and advertising

After projects drawing from archives, Arwed MESSMER turns for 'Clearing the Dephts' to his own archive, which contains many problematic aspects of German history. Previously unpublished images are re-edited and series are set in relation to each other.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 32 x 1,5 cm., 112 pp., b/w ills., text language: French

The book 'Replies' by Andreas TROGISCH has no theme and no concept. He only has pictures. In front of his eyes and in his head. And he has his camera, which he uses to take new pictures, which then correspond with all the pictures that are already there.

Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 34 x 21 x 2 cm., 128 S., 60 S/W Abb. in triplex, deutsch-sprachiger Text - TEXT ONLY IN GERMAN!

The b/w images by Sibylle BERGEMANN collected in her out-of-print photo book 'Fenster' do not follow any overarching plan, but are an expression of subjective perception. Each with its details captured window says something about the people they belong to

This version of the book 'EIN-HEIT' (U-NI-TY) is a re-edit. Originally published in 1996, Michael SCHMIDT investigated the question of 'unity', tracing the symbolism & iconography of political systems, their propaganda & the images of people they project.

In the photographic volume 'The Sad-Eyed Lady', photographer Harf ZIMMERMANN documents the Berliner Luft- und Badeparadies ('Blub' for short), a once popular swimming and leisure center in the Berlin district of Britz, which is now a graffiti-covered ruin

In his debut photo book, 'Fotografien 1991 1995', Laurenz BERGES shows the condition of barracks rooms like former Soviet troops, as they presented themselves after the fall of the Wall: clean-swept rooms that he photographed in daylight and in color.

In his book 'FRG', Georg KUSSMANN describes a place caught between the weight of the past & the demands of the present. Evoking German histories of work ethics, dictates, & acronyms, he takes a subtle approach to how Germany struggles to understand itself

In 5th volume of his 'Deeper Shades' series, Andreas BITESNICH examines one of the most fascinating and diverse cities in Europe. After several years of work, this limited edition of 960 individually numbered copies with obi volume was published in 2017.

For self-published book 'Berlin-Tegel Airport', Andreas GEHRKE documented the once crowded main terminal, the disused airfield and the abandoned outbuildings. His pictures show a juxtaposition of vision and standstill and how they finally became reality.

In his photographic volume 'Berlin' Jason LANGER explores the city as well as places where Jewish people were deported or killed and also takes this as an opportunity to rethink his preconceived notions and find a new image of contemporary Germany.

Self published photo volume 'Provisional Life' by Icelandic photographer Rannveig EINARSDOTTIR is the result of a project about refugees living in German refugee homes. It comes as a arge format leporello with a (rather hidden) German/English text pages.

In his monograph on Ulrich WÜST, 'The Presence of Something Past,' Gary Van Zante contextualizes the work to American & German urban and landscape photography. With over 200 images, including for the first time some of his leporellos from the title series

In the photo volume 'Berlin Pictures' by American photographer Mark STEINMETZ the hard and soft sides of Berlin are portrayed in poetic and floating images. This book contains black and white photographs from the streets of Berlin, made from 2012 to 2019.

'Stadt. Land. Hund' (City. Country. Dog) Photographs 1966-2010' accompanies an exhibition on the work by Sibylle BERGEMANN. In over 200 photographs it presents her unique cosmos. For the first time, it contains motifs from her early work in former GDR.

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

'Berlin 1966-70' by Arwed MESSMER shows the student protests from the perspective of the Berlin police. For this he digitized over 1000 negatives. Edited in a film-like sequential narrative structure, he breaks down the boundaries between photo and film.

Out-of-print volume 'Berlin und die Berlinern' with 60 images by Lynn MILLAR and 27 b/w images by Will McBRIDE contains a compilation of the most expressive photos of an exhibition shown in 1958, supplemented by additional shots from East and West Berlin.

This photo volume 'Standing by the Wall - Berlin 1990' by Josef Wolfgang MAYER is designed in triptychs and consists exclusively of fold-out pages that expand the individual picture into a panorama. This suddenly makes the past time present again.

The photographs in 'Voll das Leben' by Harald HAUSWALD stand in contrast to the decay & insanity surrounding them. Pictures of the monotony, but also of the slowness of life in the GDR, testimonies of an isolated, enclosed world shortly before its demise.

First overall presentation of the photographic work of the photographer, who was born in Dresden. To rediscover is a careful and accurate chronicler, a busy player in the GDR photo scene and a skeptical, distant observer of the post-reunification period.

The special of the title 'The Bird Project' by Eril BERGLIN lies in its realization as a high-gloss book. The contrast between the natural, colorful plumage and the cold colors of the urban space in which the birds find themselves is particularly striking

Espen EICHHÖFER, Annette HAUSCHILD - HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 30 x 2,5 cm., 236 pp., 132 color & 33 b/w ills., bilingual text: German / English

The multi-layered photographs in 'Metropolis. Berlin' by Barbara WOLFF take the viewer on an emotional journey through the city. 'Metropolis' is about the change of the city of Berlin, about provocation and chaos, about secrets, but also about visions.

'Die Farbe Grau' combines photographs by Michael SCHMIDT - the series 'Berlin-Wedding' (1976-1978) and 'Waffenruhe' (1985-1987) with several pictures by famous artist Gerhard RICHTER from the years 1965 to 1974 as well as the work 'Siegel/Grau' from 1991.

The out-of-print photographic volume 'Places, Strange and Quiet' by German photographer and filmmaker Wim WENDERS presents the entire spectrum of his photographic work, from his outdoor shots and buildings to panoramic views.

This extensive, also in English available catalog volume, 'Werkstatt für Photographie 1976-1986', presents the history of German photography in the 1970s and 1980s, its international relationships, protagonists & networks, e.g. to the 'New Topographics'.

SC (no dust jacket, as issued), 16 x 22 cm., 120 pp., full paged b/w ills., English / German

New edition of the long out-of-print photo volume, 'Berlin, Fruchtstraße am 27. März 1952'. Arwed MESSMER and Annett Gröschner address the facets of photo documentary by creating the portrait of a street of 32 individual photographs by Fritz TIEDEMANN.

In her out-of-print book 'Am fortgewehten Ort', Gundula SCHULZE ELDOWY tells of the synthesis in which the life of East Berlin bohemians in decaying rear buildings merged with that of the original inhabitants when she came to Prenzlauer Berg in the 1970s.

This book shows Marie GOSLICH photographs as a mirror of their time, documenting the social ills & the destruction of infrastructure in Berlin. With her camera she traces as well hardship, narrowness as decay and drew an unadulterated picture of the city.

The photographic volume 'Berlin. Wilhelmstrasse 44' by Candida HÖFER deals with an icon of 'architecture brute', which was built in the middle of the 1970s in the former GDR and is now shared by the Embassy of the Czech Republic and a Max Planck Institute

HC (no dst jacket, as issued), 21 x 28 x 2,5 cm., 192 pp., 150 b/w & color ills., bilingual texts: German / English

In his photographic volume 'Berlin', the American photographer of Jewish origin, Mitch EPSTEIN, shows the German capital Berlin's penchant for the surreal and pours human pathos into a complex form.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 29,5 x 23,5 x 1,5 cm., 80 pp., 36 b/w ills., bilingual texts: German / English

Thread-sewn HC with silk, laminated & embossed with dust jacket, 24,5 x 31,5 cm., 72 pp., 32 triplex b/w ills., bilingual texts: English / German

Pb. with dust jacket, 20,5 x 27 x 2,5 cm., 220 pp., 126 b/w ills., bilingual text: German & English

Gebundene Ausgabe in Fadenheftung ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienn), 24 x 31 x 1,5 cm., 128 S., S/W-Aufnahmen, deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

Broschiertes Exemplar in Japanischer Bindung, 18 x 23 x 1 cm., 136 S., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY! - Ltd. to 333 copies

From its title to its formal arrangement of language, 'Dein Kampf' suggests a commentary on our cyclical anxieties about ideology. Anxiety is implicit in his photographs and Berlin - a city in which several ideologies collided - is their natural backdrop.

'Jenny, Jenny' is not documentary: ZIELONY avoids the journalistic impetus for certainty & truth. To him, the authenticity of the subject is as relevant as the question of the objectivity of the documentary image: both are never free of dramatic elements.

The images in the self-published volume 'da denk ich, dass ich fliegen kann' by Conny HÖFLICH give insight into the parallel world of children and the loss of immediate access. The pictures also tell of this in their ambivalence of closeness and distance.

In 'Footfalls Echo', New Zealand photographer Freya COPELAND explores the loneliness & disconnection experienced in modern cities. The photos were taken in and around New York as well as in Berlin. Anextra volume contains an essay by Anna Hanlon in German

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

The photo book 'Waffenruhe' (Truce) by Berlin photographer Michael SCHMIDT, reissued after 30 years - here in the English-language version - contains a subjective view of his hometown in the 1980s and is one of the most important photo books of all time.

HC 19,5 x 22 cm., 122 pp., b/w ills., bilingual text: English / German

The out-of-print volume 'Deutsche Bilder: Fotografien 1965-1980' by Dietmar GOTTSCHALL documents the life in Germany covering a broad photographic spectrum, from everyday events on the streets of Germany to the world of the successful business journalist.

This new edition of the photo volume 'Made in Germany' by Leonard FREED, first published in New York in 1970, has been accompanied by a booklet containing previously unpublished images, documents as well as texts from 50 years of his Germany photography.

Among the perfectly printed photographs in the book 'Fritz Kühn. Das photographische Werk 1931-1967', there is also a sequence of mostly unpublished photographs taken in Italy, which are among the most sovereign works of the artist who worked in the GDR.

Open binded HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 14,5 x 20 pp., 80 pp., 46 b/w ills., details but no text in English, Ltd. to 200 numb. copies

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 27 x 27 x 1,5 cm., 120 pp., appendix, short overview about history, highly b/w illustrated, 930 gr., German / English

SC (no dust jacket, as issued), 17,5 x 27 cm., 64 pp., b/w ills., no text, Ltd. to 160 copies

HC with dust jacket, 20 x 27 x 2,5 cm., 267 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

The out-of-print photo volume 'Helmut Newton's Illustrated No.1 - No.4. Complete Edition' combines all between 1984 and 1995 of the self-published magazines by Helmut NEWTON in one volume. 134 of his best photographs - in black-and-white and in color.

The photo volume 'Sight' by Yoko ASAKAI contains portraits of people from all over the world watching a film at home. The relationship between looking and being looked at is explored. The concentrated-portrait subjects seem to be unaware of the camera.

The images by Uwe STEINBERG in 'Berlin. Fotografien 1963-1983' range from observations in the Central Market Hall at Alexanderplatz from the early 1960s to insights into the industrial working world of the 70s to a long-term study of Schönhauser Allee.

'Kriegsfibel' (War Primer) by Bertolt Brecht is THE anti-war book. It was first published a year before his death and a few times reissued. This edition was published by his daughter, Barbara Brecht-Schall, in memory of book's creation in exile in Denmark

This self published volume, 'Twentysix Ceramic Fountains' by French photographer Franck LANDRON, shows 26 b/w photographs of urinals from all over the world in the style of the cult book 'Twentysix Gasoline Stations' by American (photo) artist Ed RUSCHA.

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

The photographic volume 'Reenactment' by Arwed MESSMER presents an artistic perspective on the legacy of the GDR secret police. It uses photos from the archives of the Ministry of State Security (Stasi) showing failed escape attempts at the Berlin Wall.

The volume 'Theorea' by Axel HÜTTE contains works from 1994 to 1996, showing industrial areas on the outskirts of the city, company premises in the green and Tuscan cultural landscape, seen through the concrete pillars of a utility building - no people.

Broschierte Ausgabe, 23,5 x 30,5 x 2 cm., 206 S., S/W- & Farb-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

In 'Schön war's. From the Early Years of the Republic' photo artist Stefan HUNSTEIN explores the longings of the German society during the reconstruction. For this purpose he uses picture postcards from the 1930s to 1960s, which he manipulates & recolors.

The catalog 'Explosion des Sehens' (Explosion of Sight) provides an insight into the work of Magnum member René Burri. It contains previously unpublished material and documents the diversity of his work - book & exhibition design, collages & watercolors.

In his photo volume 'Local Continuum', published in a limited edition of 300 copies, skateboard photographer Helge TSCHARN juxtaposes analog photographs from the 1990s and early 2000s with recent digital images of the spot taken from the same perspective.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 14 x 18 cm., 46 pp., English. Ltd. to 100 copies

The out-of-print volume on August SANDER shows around 40 b/w photographs that are exemplary for the portrait work created between 1921 and 1930 - around the time of the Weimar Republic: people from Cologne, the Westerwald, the Eifel, Hamburg and Berlin.

Pb. with poster as dust jacket, 22 x 28 x 1 cm., 76 pp., with 11 color & 23 b/w ills., bilingual texts: German / English