Mobility

The 50s and 60s were the most exciting time for car enthusiasts. The expertly researched German-language book '111 Oldtimer-Stories der 50er und 60er Jahre, die man kennen muss' by Martin Nusch contains the 111 best stories - illustrated with photographs.

The colourful 'Desert Birds' series by Werner BARTSCH was taken at aircraft storage areas in the USA, which are normally sealed off from the outside world. This photographic volume is a tribute to countless hours in the skies as well as to long journeys.

In 'Back to Back: From Backyard to Boulevard' Stig De BLOCK documents in an honest, intimate way the lowrider scene in L.A, California. The boulevard as a place where disputes can be settled and people from different rival neighborhoods can be together.

For out-of-print volume 'Schrott', two photographers each documented an industrial site in the Ruhr region: Joachim BROHM in the port of Duisburg (1993), Ralf KREUELS took night shots in Duisburg-Rheinhausen as well as in the port of Dortmund (1996/1997).

The out-of-print photo book 'Drive' by Andrew BUSH presents a voyeuristic look at Los Angeles motorists in their own driving living rooms. The captions are tantamount to notes on the speed and direction of travel he made during sue accompanying drive.

'Subway', the new edition of 1986s original. In 1980 Bruce DAVIDSON began photographing the New York subway system. At first in black and white, but he soon realized that color film was necessary to depict the intensity of this graffiti-covered landscape.

Photo book 'American Motel Signs II' is the result of a long-term project and offers a unique insight into one of the most fascinating aspects of contemporary American culture. Some of the photos are reminiscent of famous color photographs from the 1970s.

Out-of-print book 'Autos' by Bernhard FUCHS gives the photographs the apparent character of general pictorial plates, but on closer inspection they reveal themselves to be sensitive recordings of everyday situations and individual portraits of vehicles.

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.

Out-of-print 'Autobahn' (Highway) by Uschi HUBER shows freeway landscapes & rest areas, taken in European countries (Germany, Italy, Holland, Belgium, Austria, a.o.). Images were taken from the edge of the highway and from the perspective of pedestrians.

The self-published volume 'Woodward' by Christian KASNERS deals with one of the five major avenues in Detroit. Through the sequence of images, the changing social and economic conditions of the largest U.S. city on the US-Canada border, are conveyed.

The most comprehensive publication so far of Helen LEVITT's photographs from the New York Subway contains many works that are being published here for the first time. These pictures began alongside Walker EVANS in 1938, in 1978 she to the underground.

In the photo book 'Ruins of Detroit', photographers Yves MARCHAND & Romain MEFFRE use structures that were once a source of civic pride to show the decline of the auto city of Detroit, which was harder hit economically than any other major American city.

The photographs of Sebastian MÖLLEKEN in the out-of-print photo book 'Tagebau' shift the sensation of time and size; they show how the landscape shapes the people who live in it - at the same time, the people shape the landscape.

Reproduced on super glossy paper, the color photographs in the out-of-print volume 'Karma' by Spanish photographer Óscar MONZÓN show details of cars of nocturnal drivers in Madrid. The photo volume won the Paris Photobook Award in 2013.

This out-of-print volume, 'Picturing America: Photorealism in the 1970's', offers a snapshot of this chapter in art history, when in the late 1960's a number of young artist:s in the United States began painting images directly from photographs.

The photographic volume 'Inexplicata Volantes' by Swiss photographer Luciano RIGOLINI contains photographs found in a ufology center. Reproduced without any manipulation, the images serve the need to explore their poetic power.

In his photo volume 'LA', Hans-Christian SCHINK generates - based on the precise investigation of the no man's land of Los Angeles - a contrast of nocturnal panoramic shots with extreme cropped enlargements that only hint at traces of urban action spaces.

Out-of-print 'Architectures of Waiting' by Ursula SCHULZ-DORNBURG shows bus stops in Armenia and stations of the Hejaz Railway in Saudi Arabia on a railroad line that once connected Damascus with Medina, but on which no trains have been running for long.