Economical topic

'Labour book. 2014-2015' by Ukrainian photographer Kirill GOLVCHENKO is to be understood as a criticism of the economic situation in his home country. Against the background of the original document of his father, he shows the true situation of pensioners

From post-empire to the new Middle Kingdom. For his series 'The Pearl River', photographer Christian LUTZ went to the Chinese special economic zone Macao. His photographic gaze laconically and insistently scans the smooth surfaces of this brave new world.

This catalog contains two significant photo projects from American photographer Mitch EPSTEIN: 'Recreation' documents the openness of a pluralistic society. 'American Power' draws attention to one of America's central power factors, the energy industry.

The out-of-print photo and text volume 'Fotoreportagen 1956-1965' on the work of Dirk ALVERMANN contains in addition to the black and white photographs an excellent article on his photo books penned by the photo book connoisseur Thomas Wiegand.

HC, 30 x 25 cm., 200 pp., English

The last part of an unintended trilogy on the lives of refugees and migrants. 'Rooted' returns to a phenomenon that was already noted in 'Ville de Calais': the many refugee camp residents who find hope, consolation and dignity in nurturing a few plants.

The volume 'The Polar Silk Road' by Gregor SAILER deals with the economic use of the Arctic regions as well as territorial claims of the riparian states. The consequences are geopolitical tensions and expansion of military structures and research stations

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

Out-of-print 'The Whiteness of the Whale' brings together the American series by Paul GRAHAM which reflect on the social fabric of contemporary USA while attempting to find something closer to the experience of being and seeing in the contemporary world.

In the Soviet era, Ukrainian waiters asked 'tea or coffee?' The addition is an expression of the economic changes that MIKHAILOV examines using the example of his hometown Kharkov. Have the promises of salvation of the 'Orange Revolution' been fulfilled?

'Common Dreams' by Kai LÖFFELBEIN reflects China's change and the existing contrasts. It critically examines its social and economic transformation with a focus on the lives of migrant workers who have to live in the outskirts of the large metropolises.

Reissue of nearly-thirty-years-out-of-print volume. 'Rich and Poor' by Jim GOLDBERG builds upon the classic combination of photographs & handwriting and adds a surplus of vintage material & contemporary photos that have never been published or exhibited.

In his photo book 'Tales from the City of Gold'Jason LARKIN shows life in out-of-place legacies of the former gold mines in South Africa. He documents as well as illuminates the stubbornly ignored reality of those places & their denied ecological legacies

The out-of-print and hard-to-find volume 'In Search of Dignity and Justice. The untold story of Conservancy Workers in Mumbai' by Sudharak OLWE shows the fate of workers in Bombay. It contains fourty-six mostly full-paged b/w images and six pages of text.

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'

Pb. with dust jacket (as poster), 21 x 27,5 x 3 cm., 320 pp., 1800 gr., text language: English

Lars TUNBJÖRK's images of an aimless journey through Sweden as a whole - supermarkets, parties, amusement parks, petrol stations, TV shows, food - show the dark & ​​hysterical view of modern Western society during the economic recession in the early 1990s

The out-of-print photo book 'Tengelmann 1896-1968. Ausblick' is an elaborately designed company publication, which was realized in the late 1960s by the collective of Rolf BÜNEMANN (layout), Karl-Heinz KLUBESCHEIDT (photos) and Karl-Heinz WEBER (graphics)

Gebundene Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 18 x 24,5 x 2,5 cm., 224 S., S/W-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

Open binded pb. with dust jacket, 23 x 32 x 1 cm., 72 pp., + 10 coloured quote cards, color ills., text language: English. Ltd. to 750 copies

The objects in the photo volume '¥ € $ U $' by Pawel JASZCZUK are sometimes so screaming & grotesque that the meaning of religion can at least be examined not only for the people in Poland. The photographs are printed on paper with a high-gloss varnish.

SC (no dust jacket, as issued), 19,5 x 14 cm., 144 pp., color ills., German

'Einheit, Arbeit, Wachsamkeit. The GDR in Mozambique' by Malte WANDEL is about African workers who lived in the GDR until German reunification. Many live in poverty, because the money withheld from their wages, intended for their pensions, has disappeared

The special edition of self published photo volume 'Wet City / Islak Kent' by turkish photographer Yusuf Murat SEN comes in a special box including a numbered & signed copy plus one limited edition fine art print. This edition box is limited to 100 copies

In his haunting, fascinating photo essay about a dump in Ghana, South African photographer Pieter HUGO exposes the repressed downside of fast-moving consumption and tells of a community characterized by poverty and the will to survive of every individual.

In 'Natural Order', Edward BURTYNSKY captures a moment in spring 2020 when nature briefly caught its breath due to the corona lockdown. With his camera in his home, Gray County, Ontario, he documents the complexity, magic & resilience of the natural order

Re-edit, broschierte Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 24 x 30,5 x 2 cm., 224 S., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

Pb., 14 x 19,5 x 4 cm., 544 pp., b/w ills., trilingual text: English, German & French

HC with dust jacket, 21,5 x 32 x 1 cm., 88 pp., 39 b/w ills.,

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

'A Guide to Infrastructure and Corruption' is the result of a long-term observation by Alejandro CARTAGENA of the right to public space. It shows how changes do not come from those affected themselves, but from investors interested in urban development.

with photographs by Rudolf HOLTAPPEL, Brigitte KRAEMER, Bettina STEINACKER - Gebundene Ausgabe, 22,5 x 31 x 2 cm., 208 S., Farb- und S/W-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

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.

'African Studies' by Edward BURTYNSKY is about the overexploitation of the planet in Africa. The series 'China in Africa' with interiors of newly built gigantic production facilities show the disturbing reality of the far-reaching depletion of resources.

HC, 31 x 26,5 x 2,5, 160 pp., color ills., text language: English

'Platinum' by Jason LARKIN and writer Jack Shenker explores the Marikana massacre and the physicality and context of South Africa's platinum industry. The photo volume breaks with the common rules: it combines large format posters with a concise essay.

The self-published photo volume 'Wet City / Islak Kent' Murat Yusuf SEN's contribution to the urban change in Istanbul. He contrasts the rapid development with the slow process of the collodion wet process from the beginnings of photography.

Our world is at a tipping point. In her book 'Rethinking Our World', leading economist Maja Göpel shows another path forward. She chooses enlightening examples to illustrate how we can leave behind our familiar ways of living to achieve a better future.

Out-of-print 'Twenty-six Gasoline Stations' is an artist book icon. The black & white photographs inside show gas stations between Ed RUSCHA's house in Los Angeles and his parents' house in Oklahoma City. His first volume in a series of photo artist books

In his atmospheric photo volume 'Nail Houses', Peter BIALOBRZESKI records buildings in China that are about to be demolished. For outsiders, the color photographs taken in the evening convey a feeling of homeliness, despite the cracks in the walls.

'Greek Dog Days' by Ilja NIEDERKIRCHNER portrays Greece wild and dim with a touch of affection, foggy and yet razor-sharp in black-and-white photographs. The small, strictly limited photo book invites you to embark on an enchanting and ominous journey.

Out-of-print photo volume 'American Realities' by Joakim ESKILDSEN features people in New York, California, Louisiana, South Dakota & Georgia who live below the poverty line. For many of them there is no longer an 'American Dream' - just American reality.

HC (with dust jacket), 32,5 x 26,5 x 2,5 cm., 221 pp., color ills., text language: English

HC with dust jacket, 30 x 24,5 x 1,5 cm., 88 pp., color ills., text langiuage: English

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 23,5 x 19,5 x 2 cm., 128 pp., 74 ills., text language: English

HC, 34 x 28 x 2,5 cm., 144 pp., color ills., text language: English

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 19,5 x 27,5 x 1 cm. 56 pp., color ills., + print (18 x 27 cm.) + silkscreen (73 x 45 cm.). Ltd. to 15 copies

In the photo book 'Migration as Avantgarde' - from an Hannah Arendt essay (1943) - Michael DANNER combines his own photos and texts with historical recordings to create a multi-layered narrative that is repeatedly broken up in terms of design and content.

HC with dust jacket, 28,5 x 31 x 3,5 cm., 320 pp., b/w ills.., text language: German - GERMAN TEXT ONLY! Emons Verlag, 2013.

The photo book 'Wealth Management' by Carlos SPOTTORNO is about the world of the ultra-rich and their agents: about an allegedly better life in which money does not always bring happiness and in which the greatest luxury is invisible & inaccessible to all

MIKHAILOV's chronicle of the stark reality of a historical transition and a moving work of art that offers a bold, radically open perspective on the human body. 'Case History' represents a book that depicts life in all its contradictions and extremes.

SC, 112 pp., 40 color ills.

Photo volume 'Nowhere' by Frank van der SALM - designed by Irma BOOM - shows a world that is mainly about Instagrammability. Architecture, design and cityscape driven by the mechanisms of global big business - everywhere the same antiseptic beauty.

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.

'Paradise Now' by Peter BIALOBRZESKI presents fragments of nature in the artificially illuminated infrastructure of major Asian cities. In the sun from car headlights and illuminated skyscrapers, the urban green alternates between hyperreal and surreal.

The photo volume 'Odysseia' by Antoine D'AGATA deals with the undignified migration practices of European governments. It contains depressing photos and images from videos, as well as statistical data and texts by Bruno Le Dantec and Rafael Garido.

Photo volume 'Été' by Olaf UNVEZART and Sebastian SCHELS shows ski resorts in the French and Italian Western Alps. The atmosphere of the tourist architecture and infrastructure in the snowless and deserted places is strangely melancholic and enraptured.

The photographic study of Japanese, Swedish and American office culture by the Swedish photographer Lars TUBJÖRK is one of the more recent photo book classics that found its way into Parr/Badger's 'The photobook' as well as M. + M. Auers '802 photobooks'.

HC, 22,5 x 21 cm., 74 pp., multi-limngual text: Spanish / English / Swedish

This photo volume by Alejandro CARTAGENA brings together his long-term project, in which he documented the suburbanization in Monterey (northern Mexico) and the changes - from urban planning to everyday challenges to the ecological consequences of growth.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 32,5 x 27 x 2 cm., 172 pp., color ills., 1,600 gr., text language: English

Linen bound HC, 20,5 x 29 cm., 96 pp., deutsch-sprachiger °Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

HC (with dust jacket), 30,5 x 31 x 1,5 cm., 193 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

The photo book 'Udachny/Lucky' by Hanne van ASSCHE contains portraits, landscapes and details of Udachny, a small mining town in a remote Russian region. Hospitality and optismism of the inhabitants turn the scenery into a vibrant and colorful community.

Self-published book 'Carpoolers' by Alejandro CARTAGENA draws attention to the sociological and economic aspects of the Mexican-American economy. We look from above directly onto the loading area of Mexican pickups that transport very different 'loads'.

Out-of-print 'Hufelandstrasse. 1055 Berlin' by Harf ZIMMERMANN presents b/w images of people & buildings on this street, as well as intimate color photographs of families in their homes. A historical document of a journey through time devoid of nostalgia.

Photo book 'Suburban Bus' by Mexican photographer Alejandro CARTAGENA tells the story of people who want a better life in a city that lacks everything: decent roads, enough buses and safety on buses. It is shortlisted for the Paris PhotoBook Award 2021.

'Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea' on the work of Pieter HUGO contains 'Rwanda 2004', 'Looking aside', 'The Hyena Men...', 'Permanent Error', 'There's A Place in Hell For Me and My Friends', 'Nollywood', 'Kin', '1994' & 'Californian Wildflowers'.

Out-of-print photo book 'Aftermath' by Jörn VANHÖFEN captures rapidly changing places in a peculiarly poetic way: the Chicago Stock Exchange, Cape Town's townships, forest fires in Puglia, Detroit's abandoned factories and the scrap yard in the Ruhr area.

In 'Nsenene' Michele SIBILONI documents the self-image of Ugandans who stay awake night after night until dawn to catch locusts and sell them. Although this happens at the other end of the world, it is about the future perspective of our planet Earth.

This photo volume, 'Alpen-Blicke.CH' by Swiss photographer Hans Peter JOST, is a presentation of controversial developments in the Alpine region. Home, energy, leisure, transit, economy and ecology are the topics in his photographs.

This report, 'Garzweiler' (or how the lignite connection burns up an entire region), with b/w photographs by Eusebius WIRDEIER, reveals the machinations of a powerful lignite connection of business, politics and trade unions in the fight for Garzweiler II

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

Deutsche Ausgabe, broschiertes Exemplar ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschcenen), 21,5 x 27 x 2,5 cm., 256 S., S/W & Farbbabb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - HERE GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

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.

In 'The Screw', Akihito YOSHIDA shows people who make the 'screws' of ships in small workshop in Bangladesh. They work together to create a cold, hard metal by pouring molten red liquid, like magma, into the pitch-black ground, covered with iron sand.

The book 'The Rest is History' is a commentary on the British Brexit decision in 2020. Alejandro ACÍN questions the construction of history through theatrically staged photos taken in London during the last 24 hours of British-European political relations

HC, 30 x 26 cm., 132 pp.

Offered here is a set of various photobook titles by American photographer Mitch EPSTEIN (b. 1952). Some of the titles in this set are out of print. The 'Little Mitch Epstein Photobook Library' consists of twelve titles.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 22 x 28 x 1,5 cm., 112 pp., color ills., bilingual text: English / Spanish

The situation of the Huai River is exemplary for the serious environmental damage in China as a result for the enormous economic growth. In some sections this is so heavily contaminated with toxicity that it is not advised to even touch the water.

HC with dust jacket, 40 x 28 x 2 cm., 112 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 16,5 x 24 x 1,5 cm., 112 pp., color ills., text language. English. Ltd. to 500 copies

Broschierte Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 18,5 x 15 x 0,5 cm., 68 S., 35 S/W-Abb. (+1 in Farbe), deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 21,5 x 34 x 1,5 cm., 168 pp., 62 ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 750 copies (+150 A.P.E.-copies)

SC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 29 x 2 cm., 240 pp., 167 color ills., text language: English

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 35 x 28 x 2,5 cm., 188 pp., 77 color ills., text language: English

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 30,5 x 28 cm., 180 pp., 57 duotone ills., trilingual text: English / French / Portuguese

This photo volume, 'The Canary and The Hammer' by Lisa BARNARD, offers a fascinating insight into the troubled history of gold and its complex connections with the global economy. The series was created over four years and across four continents.

In 2005, Edward BURTYNSKY gave in out-of-print book 'China' the industrial change in China a visual form for the first time. If the earth's resources were besieged by western colonialism, China was at the beginning of a comprehensive attack on the planet.

'Son of a bit' by Yasuhiko UCHIHARA show pictures from his travels through Tokyo & Bangkok as a field of rotting apples or bustling activity found on a street, all captured in full-page vibrant colour and with a casual eye for order, chaos, life and death

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

The glossy photo publication 'High Fashion' by Polish photographer Pawel JASZCUK, reminiscent of a fashion magazine, contains color photographs of drunken salesmen in chic work clothes on their way home. Now these lie asleep in the streets of Tokyo.

'American Geography' by Matt BLACK marks the culmination of a long-running series on the U.S.A. The Magnum photographer created an inventory with meticulously composed photos, especially the cities in the periphery as well as the everyday precariousness.

Who owns the land, by who nature itself. 'Property Rights' by US photographer Mitch EPSTEIN examines other forms of trespass and destruction. It includes the voices of activists he interviewed while making this deeply personal and political work.

SC, 15 x 23,5 cm., 144 pp.

'Realitatea' by Andrea DIEFENBACH is the result of a long-term project and contains vignettes from Moldova, a country in a state of limbo, and facsimiles of newspapers and texts that place them in the context of the political events of the past ten years.

Fadengehefteter HC, 24,5 x 23 cm., 96 S., S/W-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!