India

In out-of-print photo volume 'Matriarchs', Austrian photographer Maria HAAS focuses on the investigation of cultures in which women have a special status. She opens these cultures to the viewer and captures their beauty and vitality in sensitive portraits

'The Book of Everything' celebrates Mary Ellen MARK's extraordinary life, work and vision in over 600 images and in various texts. From 1963 until her death in 2015, the Magnum photographer told brilliant, intimate, provocative stories.

Small photo book 'Bombay Beauties' includes portraits on the reverse. The focus is on the diversity of Indian hair design. Erik KESSELS used the material found to 'show the rich diversity of the city by alluding to unspoken life stories'.

The photo volume 'Mary Ellen Mark - Encounters' focuses on five iconic series from the 1970s & 80s which contributed significantly to her reputation. It contextualizes these works within her œuvre alongside original magazine spreads and archival material.

HC (without dust jacket, as issued), 29 x 27 cm., 100 pp., 58 color ills., English

The photo volume 'Romareisen' by Joakim ESKILDSEN is the result of a long-term project and a very personal document of Roma encounters in seven countries. Together with the music CD as a supplement, it gives a deep insight into their everyday life & life.

This photo volume by Sebastião SALGADO documents traditional methods of sustainable coffee farming across the globe, revealing rituals deeply steeped in history & pride. 'Scent of a Dream' spans nearly a decade of research into the hidden world of coffee.

Leporello (accordeon style) in slipcase, 16,5 x 22 x 2,5 cm., 140 pp., color ills., English, Ltd. to 500 copies

HC, 23,5 x 31 cm., 310 pp.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 17 x 21,5 x 1,5 cm., 40 pp., 15 b/w ills., bilingual text: Swedish / English

The photo book 'Exile' is the third chapter of Vasantha YOGANANTHAN's long-term project' A myth of Two Souls', it tells of Rama's life in the forest, together with Sita and her brother Lakshmana.

In 'Cotton Worldwide', Hans Peter JOST documents on his travels to India, China, Brazil, America, Uzbekistan, Mali and Tanzania, the living and working conditions of cotton farmers as well as cultivation, harvesting, processing and marketing of cotton.

HC with dust jacket, 27 x 21,5 x 2 cm., 120 pp.,

Volume No.6 of the book series 'Grosse Photographern unserer Zeit' (Great Photographers of Our Time) presents the work of Swiss Magnum photographer Werner BISCHOF (1916-1954) in over 80 b/w images - works in the area of tension between art and reportage.

For his out-of-print volume 'Ladakh', Raphael GAILLARDE documented the magnificent mountains and the everyday life of the residents. Until then, the Tibetan tradition had remained largely untouched in the plateaux between the Himalayas and the Karakorum.

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

The book 'Calcutta' contains photoworks by twenty-one photographers who, under the direction of Peter BIALOBRZESKI, have documented the disappearing, crumbling splendor of this incomparable cultural heritage as part of the 'Kolkata Heritage Photo Project'

With the 'Naga Hills' series, photographer David BAILEY fulfilled his long-held desire to visit this part of the mountain barrier between India and Myanmar (Burma) to document the landscape and personalities of the mystical homeland of the Naga tribes.

The tenth volume of the 'City Diary' book series by Peter BIALOBRZESKI, 'Kochi Diary', documents everyday life in a city in the Indian state of Kerala. The color photos show the looseness of a photographer who has already worked in many emerging countries

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 27 cm., 2 pp., 38 color ills., bilingual text: German / English, - Also available as Special Ed. with Print (as long as available)

HC with foil stamped title and tipped-in image on back cover (no dust jacket, as issued), 30,5 x 24,5 cm., 168 pp., approx. 70 color ills., bilingual text: German / English

HC with dust jacket, 22,5 x 26,5 x 3,5 cm., 280 pp., b/w ills., trilingual text: English, Bengali & Hindi

Linen bound HC with dust jacket, 32 x 27,5 x 2 cm., 120 pp., 87 color ills. + 3 panorama views, English

This photo volume, 'Raghu Rai's India', by India's Magnum photographer contains color images from the 1980s to the 2000s. His images tell of ordinary people, the rituals and routines that make up their daily rhythms, their spiritual fervor and dignity.

Linen bound HC with tipped in image (no dust jacket, as issued), 16,5 x 24 cm., 144 pp., 62 color ills. & 5 info graphics, text language: English

In his book 'The Deepest lake', Brian W. FERRY takes us on a unique journey. The 50 color photographs are his personal response to his special and remarkable experiences in this region, which for centuries has been considered a mystical paradise on earth.

In his photo book 'Ctrl-X', Kai LÖFFELBEIN explores the use of limited resources and documents the path of e-waste from Europe and the USA to the post-apocalyptic Agbogbloshie (Ghana), the e-waste city Guiyu (China) and the backyard workshops of New Delhi

HC, 24 x 29 cm., 104 pp., 49 color ills., text language: English

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

'MAGNUM's first' reproduces the first MAGNUM show with 83 black-and-white images by the Magnum photographers Werner BISCHOF, Henri CARTIER-BRESSON, Robert CAPA, Ernst HAAS, Erich LESSING, Jean MARQUIS, Inge MORATH & Marc RIBOUD, reproduced in large format

The out-of-print volume 'Retrospective' deals with the staged & surrealist photography of Arthur TRESS, whose work is characterized by allegorical wit and narrative acuity, as well as challenging the imagination and understanding of the dark sides of life

Two slip cased pb., 21 x 24,1 cm., 96 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 31 x 30 x 2 cm., 144 pp., color ills., English

In 2009 Karolina GEMBARA traveled to Delhi for studies in photography. Over the following seven years, she experienced the transition of two phases of life: from the loneliness of a life that is perceived as provisional to another life of firm belonging.

HC (without dust jacket, as issued), 19,5 x 29 cm., 148 pp., 120 color ills.,

In 'Dori' Kaamna PATEL tries to link questions about love and family by documenting the relationship of her grandparents, which is eminently important to her. This self published volume was short listed for the Paris Photo Aperture Photobook Award 2021.

Open spinned HC (no dust jackets, as issued), approx. 20 x 24 x 2 cm., 88 pp. +3 inserts, 38 color ills., English

SC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 32 x 2 cm., 128 pp., 50 color ills., English

Thirty of the most significant & beautiful Coffee Houses throughout Indiawhich simultaneously speak of a Post-Independence optimism and a now-faded grandeur. For decades acted simultaneously as political & artistic salons as well as simple eating places.

Pb. in plastic bag, 17 x 22,5 cm., 28 pp., 24 b/w ills., no text, Ltd. to 250 copies

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 22 x 1,5 cm., 88 pp., color ills., text language: English

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 28 x 2 cm., 112 pp., 51 color ills., text language: English

Playing with diverse formats, the black-and-white photographs in the out-of-print photo volume 'End Time City' by Michael ACKERMAN go beyond depicting the city of Benares and instead create a moving and radically personal portrait of human life and death.

For 'Afterlife', the sixth volume of his long-term photo book project on India's saga, 'A Myth of Two Souls', France based photographer Vasantha YOGANANTHAN created collages of multiple image layers to put the viewer in a state of disorientation.

The out-of-print photo book 'Keiko' by World Press photo awarded photographer Tomasz GUDZOWATY documents the life of ship scrappers in Chittagong, Bangladesh, where 30 to 40 percent of all 700 ocean-going vessels decommissioned each year are cannibalized.