Architecture photography

This catalog 'Architecture in Photographs', edited by Gordon Baldwin and published at the same time as the exhibition 'In Focus: Architecture' in 2013/14, covers the history of the medium and includes works from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. Century.

Long time out-of-print catalog volume 'Aus der Distanz' features works by Bernd and Hilla BECHER as well as by Becher students Andreas GURSKY, Candida HÖFER, Axel HÜTTE, Thomas RUFF, Thomas STRUTH as well as Petra WUNDERLICH. And it contains two texts.

With works by Bernd und Hilla BECHER, Andreas GURSKY, Thomas RUFF, August SANDER, Peter KEETMAN, MAN RAY, Robert FRANK, Stephen SHORE, William EGGLESTON and many more

The book 'It's A Gas! The Allure of the Gas Station' explores the amazingly world of gas stations: Whether functional high-tech temple, transit zone, film set, abandoned ruin or converted residential building - the world of gas pumps is full of surprises.

The catalog accompanies the exhibition SUBJECT AND OBJECT. PHOTO RHINE RUHR and contains many illustrations, current texts and photo-historically significant articles. It examines relationships between different photographic positions that have developed.

Photo works by Bernd & Hilla BECHER, Joachim BROHM, Jitka HANZLOVÁ and Rudolf HOLTAPPEL 4 slipcased pb, approx. 28 x 28 x 3 cm., 240 pp., Black & white and color photographs, GERMAN text only

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

This monograph provides an excellent view of the work of the US-American photographer Berenice ABBOTT, who not only made Eugène ATGET's work about Paris world-famous, but also pursued her own project about changing New York and did science photography.

The two-volume publication presents insights into the early work of Robert ADAMS as well as a previously unpublished text on his perception of modern sacred architecture - in the context of the buildings of the friendly German architect Rudolf Schwarz.

First published in 1974, Robert ADAMS' photobook 'The New West' is now considered a photobook classic, along with 'American Photographs' by Walker EVANS and 'The Americans' by Robert FRANK as seminal photobooks exploring American culture and society.

Out-of-print book 'überRÄUME Sankt Cäcilien + Sankt Peter Köln' by Nicole AHLAND combines extensive 'art photographic investigations' expands the physical boundaries of Cologne's last double church complex preserved to this day into light & bright spaces.

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

Paperback with photo works by Andreas GURSKY, Candida HÖFER, Axel HÜTTE, Thomas RUFF und Thomas STRUTH

This chronologically arranged monograph on the work of Eugène ATGET shows a photograph and includes the commentary of the editor, John Szarkowski. However, it is less about an exact analysis than about capturing the context and describing the attributes.

This multilingual, handy photo volume in three languages and a detailed appendix, 'Paris', contains around 500 black & white photographs by Eugène ATGET from the years before 1900 to the 1920s. Their order is based on the Parisian arrondissements.

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

1st print run. HC with dust jacket, 18,5 x 24 x 2,5 cm. (9,5 x 7 in.), 160 pp., 120 duotone b/w ills., text language: English

'Eugène Atget. Retrospective', published for the major exhibitions in Paris & Berlin, contains the most important photographs created between 1900 and 1925. Essays trace his wide range of themes and motifs as well as his impact on the French Surrealists.

In French! 'Voir Paris' is conceived as a poetic, visual stroll that, based on photos by Eugène ATGET (with the edges left unchanged), leads through courtyards and rooms, alleys, cafes, urban gardens and along the banks of the Seine.

Out-of-print volume 'Missing Buildings' by Thom & Beth ATKINSON is the result of a project on buildings in London destroyed or damaged by bombing between 1940 and 1945. From the enigmatic gap to the mismatched post-war housing estate in the city center.

Re-edit, HC (with dust jacket) in slipcase, 29 x 28 cm., 96 pp., 51 b/w ills., bilingual text: German / English

Brutalist architecture & concrete fascinate Sue BARR (professor of photography, London). With her large format camera, the British woman traversed all of Italy from the Alps to Naples and photographed the previously largely ignored motorway architecture.

This First edition of photo volume 'Fabrikhallen' by Bernd & Hilla BECHER contains b/w photographs from the 1960s to 1990s. All factory halls were recorded in Germany, each recording is provided with the location and the date of the recording time.

G/French. Following the concept of typology and comparative vision, the 61 b/w photos of this German-French re-issue capture the entire spectrum of BECHER’s encyclopedia of industrial buildings in a representative manner and in characteristic 'portraits'.

'Industrielandschaften' by Bernd & Hilla BECHER is a novelty: For the first time, your view of the whole opens up, including the settlement and residential buildings of the workers. The systems are presented in context and thus receive a narrative element

The 1991 photo book 'Pennsylvania Coal Mine Tipples' by Bernd & Hilla BECHER contains B / W photos of small-scale mines in Pennsylvania, USA, from the 1970s. Each recording is provided with the location and the date of the recording.

In 'Steinwerke und Kalköfen', German photographers Bernd & Hilla BECHER document buildings in the stone processing industry in Europe. For 30 years they photographed the different variants of a building type from the early days of industrialization.

Photo book 'Typologien industrieller Bauten'' by Bernd & Hilla BECHER was published in 2003 as a paperback edition. It is the bestseller among the BECHER titles. He contains individual images arranged in tableaus, supplemented by a text by Armin Zweite.

Since 1957, Bernd & Hilla BECHER have compiled a wealth of examples of the industrial building type for 'Wassertürme' (Water Towers) photo book. Although they are functional buildings, the photographed specimens reveal an unprecedented variety of shapes.

This out-of-print photo volume 'Zeche Concordia' by Bernd & Hilla BECHER, which was published in 2006 as brochure, documents the coal mine in Oberhausen in black and white photos taken between 1967 and 1970.

'Bauten' by Boris BECKER was published on the occasion of an exhibition at Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf. It consists of a cassette with 8 color prints and a leaflet with text by Katja Blomberg and an index with details. No. 80/100, autographed on the map.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 22,5 x 27,5 x 3 cm, 352 pp., 850 duotone b/w ills. & 45 color ills., multi-lingual text: German / French / English

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.

German photographer In the photo book '4100 Duisburg' you can see how the photographer Laurenz BERGEual language of silence and light that captures the visible present of places over which history seems to have passed as well as the echoes of former life.

One of the last master students of Bernd and Hilla BECHER, published his first conceptual work, the portrait of the small lower saxonian city in which he once grew up, on newspaper paper - nine years before publication in photo book format.

The series from 1989 is the artist's first conceptual work in which he grapples with his hometown. In keeping with the tradition of the BECHER school, his photographs show a sober documentary and sometimes humorous view of the small town in Lower Saxony.

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.

Laurenz BERGES - photographer of the Dusseldorf School - concentrates on the details of abandoned apartments, vacant houses and neglected courtyards, looks for zones of urban ambiguity and transforms them into poetic but strictly documentary photographs.

Out-of-print catalog for the major 'Bernd & Hilla Becher' retrospective at Metropolitan Musem with 3 essays and 108 plates to their life & work in a broad sweep. For the 1st time including their early works as well as an interview with the son Max Becher.

In addition to works selected by Eva BESNYÖ herself, the out-of-print volume contains previously never shown works with motifs from Budapest, Berlin, Brussels, Paris, Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Milan with attention to light, shadow, cropping and line play.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 31 x 25,5 x 2 cm., 1600 pp., 76 color ills., 1,400 gr., bilingual text: English / German

Out of print volume 'Case Study Homes' by Peter BIALOBRZESKI contains color photos of accommodations made in Manila that consist of civilian garbage. The effects of globalization such as pandemic pollution and the reasons for migration become visible.

In the book 'Lost in Transition' Peter BIALOBRZESKI examines the change in urban places, often located on the periphery of cities. The color photographs describe the appearance of this transition: from the old to the new, from the familiar to the abstract

In 'Neon Tigers', the metropolises, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Jakarta, Singapore & Shenzhen, merge into a virtual megacity. Peter BIALOBRZESKI's photos do not seem to reflect a real world, but rather dream worlds from films or PC games.

Gebundene Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 21 x 24 cm., 112 S., 120 Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

In his 'Polaroids from the Middle Kingdom', Lukas BIRK shows photographs taken between 2008 and 2010 in the People's Republic of China using expired film stock from the 1980s. The instant images capture the present through a filter of nostalgia & longing.

HC with dust jacket, 20,5 x 25,5 x 2 cm., 172 pp. color iills., text language: English + DVD

The out-of-print photo book 'Terezín' is a personal journey of the Portuguese photographer Daniel BLAUFUKS and a research book on the history of the Nazi concentration camp Teresienstadt based on his own photographs as well as archive material. With DVD.