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This photo volume, '10 Jahre Hambacher Forst', tells the stories of the people who fought for the preservation of Hambach Forest, Germany, in a combination of artistic as well as activist positions, photographs, original sounds and archive material.

HC with dust jacket, 18,5 x 24 x 2,5 cm. (9,5 x 7 in.), 190 pp., 120 duotone b/w ills., text language: English

The book 'LOMMERZHEIM: ...die Legende lebt' contains history & stories about the cult Kölsch pub in the Cologne-Deutz district. The publishers were able to win over 40 text and picture authors who contributed their memories and numerous picture documents.

'Men like Hitler' shows more than 100 private photos of men taken before 1945. Admittedly, the moustache on its own does not make someone a Nazi. But the men must have been known whom they resembled and owned the likeness when they looked in the mirror.

'Mauvais genre' presents views of men and women at the intersection of private life, the history of homosexuality, and feminist activism. Christine Bard and Isabelle Bonnet shed light on this often-silenced aspect through photos from Lifshitz collection.

The bilingual volume contains photo works by Juergen TELLER, Ute & Werner MAHLER, Pari DUKOVIC, Brigitte LACOMBE and Paolo PELLEGRIN. With silk-screened plastic dust jacket, 24 x 32 x 2,5 cm., 352 pp., 158 color ills (plus thumbnails at book's end)

In 'Photobooks &' researcher Matt Johnston explores trends & practices based on research, interviews & his own experiences. He proposes a critical framework for looking at photo book use and calls for a reorientation to address its communicative potential

The catalogue 'Photobooks. Art Page by Page' accompanies an exhibition with a selection of 45 photo books from recent decades, focusing on unusual concepts, designs & forms of presentation that reveal the potential of the photo book as an artistic medium.

'Prix Elysée. Édition 2016-2018' celebrates the nominees with a set consisting of 8 individual monographs plus 1 text volume. The Prix Élysée Award is intended to encourage creativity and to realize new photographic works by promising photographic artists

'Queer Tattoo' by Rudolph, Wolbergs & Polinsky is the first comprehensive presentation of the vibrant, diverse queer tattoo community. Presented are 50 international tattoo artists:inside, introduced through extensive portraits, texts, and picture spreads

The catalog 'Zeitgenossen' documents the art scene of the 1920s in the Rhineland around the portrait photographer August SANDER as a central figure. He spans the arc between artists of all disciplines as well as the two art metropolises Berlin and Cologne

by Florian Ebner (ed.), Broschur (ohne Schutzumschlag, wie erschienen). 16 x 22,5 x 2,5 cm., 288 S., zahlreiche Abb., deutsch-sprachig - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

'125th Street. Photography In Harlem' reflects the history of New York's Harlem neighborhood, marked by consumerism, gentrification, glamour as well as political revolt. With images by Berenice ABBOTT, Dawoud BEY, Katsu NAITO, Gordon PARKS, Jamel SHABAZZ.

In her book of photographs 'Empty Nests' Atsuko Murano ABALOS does not show the nothingness, but rather she confirms the existence of a bright and wonderful world that can be found in these 'empty nests'. The volume shows stork nests in the French Alsace.

The werewolf, about which the nifty photo book 'Lobismuller' by Laia ABRIL is about, was a woman who lived in the 19th century. lived in Spain. The story of Spain's most enigmatic and bloodthirsty serial killer is reconstructed from a female perspective.

The photo volume 'On Abortion' by Spanish photographer Laia ABRIL documents the dangers and harms that result from the lack of legal, safe and free access for women to abortion and uncovers a harrowing series of stigmata and taboos around the topic.

Laia ABRIL has been working on projects dealing with the so-called 'world epidemic of eating disorders' since 2010. The volume 'The Epilogue' tells the story of the Robinson family and the consequences of the loss of their 26-year-old daughter to bulimia.

The photographs in 'Radius 500 Meters', come from the photo archive that the author Terje ABUSDAL inherited from his grandfather, Åsmund Abusdal. The snapshots tell of small and large events in and around the gas station in Sweden in the 1970s and 1980s.

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

This edition contains b/w photos taken between 1973 and 1991, a six-page interview with as well as a two-page biography. It was published in the 'Photographers at Work' series by the American Smithsonian Institute - like EGGLESTON's 'Horses and Dogs'.

The reissue of photo volume 'Cottonwoods' by Robert ADAMS was originally published in paperback by Smithsonian in 1994 as part of the 'Photographers at Work' series. For the now expanded edition, further recordings from the series at that time were taken.

In 1968, Robert ADAMS photographed the nondescript area south of Colorado Springs. The b/w images, clear in their description, embodied the contemporary landscape of the US frontier - a theme of far-reaching significance taken up by the 'New Topographics'

The photographic volume 'Gone?' by Robert ADAMS begins with a walk in a suburban neighborhood. Within a few images the viewer has moved away from civilization and into the hills, where we discover streams and secluded places that feel relatively untouched

Generations have visited Lookout Mountain west of Denver to gaze out over the city and surrounding countryside. For his photographic volume'On Lookout Mountain' Robert ADAMS compiles a selection of views taken in 1970 and 1984 - evoking hope and despair.

In 'Sea Stories', the photos by Robert ADAMS describe the cycles of nature with a new naturalism. It contents a sequence of three visual narratives: among alder and maple trees, along the beachand back through meadows and what remains of the inland forest

'Words That Helped' by Robert ADAMS contains quotes collected in notebooks over six decades from artists like Diane ARBUS, Ingmar Bergman, Paul Cézanne, Emily Dickinson, Dag Hammarskjöld, Dorothea LANGE, Fran Lebowitz & Alfred STIEGLITZ.

This self-published photo volume 'I can't get through the chaos' by Polish photographer Michal ADAMSKI tells the story of the year he said goodbye to his parents forever. The images, mostly in black & white, show real, tangible death, not his imagination.

In the out-of-print book 'Nacktwanderer' by Swiss photographer Roshan ADHIHETTY we look into a world unknown to many. The photos show majestic green landscapes where European men and women hike naked through Germany, Switzerland as well as through Austria

'Cathédrales et églises de France' (1949) is the motif in the photo volume 'Cathédrales' by Laurence AEGERTER, who placed the volume at the window of her studio and photographed the natural light incidence with the shadow reproduction of Bourges Cathedral

The award-winning photographic volume 'Wegwerfartikel' (disposable items) by Swiss pjhotographer Sara AFFOLTER tells life and suffering stories of domestic and farm animals. They all represent the disregard for animals in industrialized Western society.

In out-of-print book 'Nichtraum' Nicole AHLAND depicts the interplay of light, space & tim showing deserted spaces, shifted into darkness or overexposed by light. Using analog photography, she creates effects of transparency, superimposition & soft focus.

The poetic universe of Spanish photographer duo ALBARRÀN CABRERA is presented in this volume of the 'Des Oiseaux' photo book series in the form of a dreamlike journey to the land of birds. Each photo is like a story that seems to be stopped for a moment.

In 'Photographic Syntax', ALBARRÁN CABRERA explains why they produce their own images using different photographic processes, why they use the medium of photography as a learning tool, and the thoughts behind images, many of them previously unpublished.

The images of ALBARRÁN CABRERA in 'Remembering the Future' speak to us of memory and experience. At first glance, their very clarity is moving. After a time, rather than real scenes, they begin to seem the settings for dreams about to vanish into the mist

'The World's First Photobook Was Blue', by ALBÁRRAN CABRERA shows their work as well as explains their artistic process. The title is a reference to Anna ATKINS, the spiral binding to BRASSAI and the book itself is a tribute to photography's complexity.

'The Drawer' by Vince Aletti, Winner of the PhotoBook Award in Paris 2023, contains collaged photos from magazines & books, gallery posters and other ephemera since the 1970s, which until this publication were stacked in a briefcase in the East Village.

Peter ALEXANDER recorded his visual experiences of the Californian zeitgeist in his Polaroids from 1972 to the early 1990s. In 2020 he put the previously unpublished pictures together as pairs. The accompanying text reveals amazing connections to his art.

For his self-published volume 'Am Platz ein Baum', designed as a fanfold, Björn ALLEMANN photographed for over two years at the same square (Paradeplatz) in Zurich. It is an idiosyncratic publication in which the sequence of images must be 'worked out'.

For her photo book 'Betweenness', Israeli photographer Lili ALMOG was inspired by the veiling practices of an extremist Jewish sect. In a novel representation of the veil, she raises questions about freedom and faith and how these truths can coexist today

The photo volume 'Manuel Álvarez BRAVO in Color' is the first book dedicated exclusively to his color work. He produced around 3,000 color photographs. The most important photographs are shown here: classic works and the little-known color experiments.

'Algeria' by Dirk ALVERMANN consists of political contemporary documents, quotes from French military sources, pamphlets, newspapers and magazines that once accompanied him. As facsimile, it was also part of the sought-after 'Protest Box' by Martin Parr.

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.

SIGNED COPY. Out of print from the publisher, the biographical volume 'Zwischen den Zeiten. Rhapsody in Schwarzweiß' with over 200 b/w photographs from the 1950s to the 1980s represents the personal balance of the work of the photographer Dirk ALVERMANN.

'American' by Werner AMANN, is the result of a long-term project. Portraits from L.A., New York, Las Vegas, Gainesville, Miami, Kansas City, the border city Tijuana as well as the deserts of the Western alternate with travel pictures of streets & places.

In this volume, 'Blood Orange / Naranja de Sangre', Liza AMBROSSIO, infected by the aesthetics of Japanese counterculture and Aztec rituals of human sacrifice, she mixes psychological techniques of manipulation, with science, fiction, eruro & witchcraft.

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

In his book 'One Block', Dave ANDERSON uses portraits, still lifes and abstract images to show the physical impact of Hurricane 'Katrina' on the residents of an apartment block as well as the less tangible, equally important psychological infrastructure.

'Wait until the night is silent' by Iris ANDRASCHEK is about the natural and alternative way of life of a group of people in Canada. The pictures show an almost fairytale communitas as a utopian alternative to the constraints of industrial societies.