China

Cloth bound (no dust jackets, as issued)

The photographic volume 'Approximate Joy' by Christopher ANDERSON offered here is from the 1st edition and is signed by the Magnum photographer. Collector's edition (1 of 30) with a signed C-print on metallic paper. Book with print and yellow slipcase.

A set consisting of five albums in accordion format, each with twenty small prints, lets you witness the birth of post-socialist China. The negatives (1985-2005) were originally intended for destruction in a recycling facility on the outskirts of Beijing.

In 'Hong Kong Flora', Michael WOLF turns his attention to plants and flowers in the urban jungle of the Asian metropolis. Each leaf, each branch, each flower a visible sign of the power of nature and people´s single-mindedness, to customize their habitat.

Cloth bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 15,5 x 21 x 2 cm., 152 pp., color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 500 copies

The out-of-print volume 'Aeronautics in the Backyard' by Xiaoxiao XU is about the dream to fly, as well as freedom and creativity. Text, image as well as historical resources were combined to strengthen and deepen the theme as comprehensively as possible.

The out-of-print photo book 'From Where There Is No Return' on the work of Alberto GARCÍA-ALIX reproduces over 250 images that compose the ambitious project on which the Spanish photographer has been working for several years in Madrid, Paris and Beijing.

This set includes all three different designs and book formats of the 'No more no less' photo book project which has been iniciated by Thomas SAUVIN and Kensuke KOIKE. The base was a found manuscript with pictures about the work with portrait photography.

This photo volume by Carolyn DRAKE is a statement for the freedom of the Autonomous Region of Xinjiang. He combines photographs with drawings by the Uighurs. The book also contains excerpts from the allegorical story 'Wild Pigeon' by Nurmuhemmet YASIN.

Colth bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 29 cm., 400 pp, dutone b/w ills., ext language: English

Out-of-print 'Hong Kong Umbrella' by Michael WOLF shows umbrellas in the Back Alleys. The cover also refers to the yellow umbrella as a symbol of protest against Chinese appropriation; images of the 'Umbrella Revolution' by Lam Yik FEI can also be seen.

HC with dust jacket, 21,5 x 28 cm., 112 pp., 57 b/w ills., Chinese/English, Ltd. to 600 numbered copies

Out-of-print book '404 not found' by Li YANG deals with an abandoned place in Poeple's republic of China. It contains images of the city, which was once designed as a research base and was home to up to 50,000 people at times, taken around the year 2000.

18 'Ostkreuz' photographers portrait residents of Auroville, the slums of Manila, and the center of a decaying Detroit, Ordos in China, the artificiality of Dubai, and the bombed-out buildings in Gaza. The result is a portrait of a city that is all cities

Reissue HC (no dust jacket, as issued) with ONE signed C-Print (20 x 16 cm.), 28,5 x 23,5 x 1,5 cm., color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 350 numbered copies

For his out-of-print photographic volume 'Ficciones', Chinese photo artist Yanchu SUN uses snapshots of family celebrations and the like taken in China in the 1970s or 1980s. He uses collages or drawings to destroy or perpetuate the stories in the photos.

Out-of-print volume 'Hong Kong Rubber Boots and Shoes' by Michael WOLF contains images of everyday from 'his' laboratory for exploring the behaviors, creativity and inventiveness of the city's inhabitants, reflected in the variety of random arrangements.

'One Sunday in Beijing' by Michael KENNA is the result of an artist-in-residence stay. The book was published in a small edition with two different colored covers (red and yellow), with print and also carries an inserted conundrum image on the book cover.

As there is a wall clock in almost every household, Matjaz TANCIC titled his out-of-print volume, which oscillates between the future and the past, 'Timekeepers'. Conceived as an old photo album, the 3D images inside show Chinese and their home interiors.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 19 x 28 cm., 124 pp., color ills., text language: text language: English