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'Icaro' by Irene ZOTTOLA was created from leaves of a found encyclopedia, selected fragments of a novel and photographic prints made in the darkroom with liquid emulsion. The project aims to establish a parallel between bird flight and human life journey.

'Jenny, Jenny' is not documentary: ZIELONY avoids the journalistic impetus for certainty & truth. To him, the authenticity of the subject is as relevant as the question of the objectivity of the documentary image: both are never free of dramatic elements.

In the out-of-print photo book 'Landscapes', Chinese photographer Chen ZHUO explores the landscape and the changes and interactions between humans and nature. The artist's alienation from himself is also explored through the creation of natural scenarios.

HC (without dust jacket, as issued), 22 x 28,5 cm., 192 pp. +16 fold outs, 118 color ills., Chinese/English, Lt.d to 600 numbered copies

Zanele MUHOLI became known for pictures that show the lives of black lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transsexuals, queers and intersex people beyond deviance and victimhood. This catalog contains images from her most important as well as unpublished works.

The second photo volume by Tariq ZAIDI, 'Sin Salida', is the result of three years of documentation and shows the struggle of the state of El Salvador against two brutal gangs that have sophisticated extortion and domination networks throughout the region

2nd print run. The photographer Tariq ZAIDI shows in 'Sapeurs. Ladies & Gentlemen of the Congo' the subcultural fashion in Kinshasa & Brazzaville. During the day cab drivers, tailors or gardeners - after work they become casually dressed, elegant dandies.

In 'The Bridge' Michael YUAN portrays the Golden Gate Bridge. A study of its form, lines, shapes & distinctive color: imposing towers, stylised street lamps, gigantic cables, bolts, plates with their own distinctive geometry & shape, colour, sound & light

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.

Haunting, distorted and otherworldly images in the out-of-print volume 'Site/Cloud' epitomizes the approach of Daisuke YOKOTA to pushing the development process & possibilities of analog image making, introducing imperfections and visual noise into them.

For his out-of-print book 'Outskirts', Daisuke YOKOTA explores the boundaries between digital & analog photography. He uses color images from the outskirts of Tokyo - pictures of cars, trees & buildings - whose colors he then reverses into the monochrome.

Daisuke YOKOTA Conersation with Taisuke Koyama, Mayumi Hosokura, Kenta Cobayashi, Takashi Kawashima as well as with Takaaki Akaishi in Japanese and English.

'Yashi no mi' by Miho YOKOCHI is a photo report about her travels to coastal cities in Japan - in the tradition of Tamiko NISHIMURA, who traveled to the Tohoku, Hokuriku, Kanto, Kansai and Chugoku in the 1970s and published her series as a photo book, too

The book 'Hayal & Hakitat' by Cemre YESIL shows the hands of Turkish prisoners from early 20th century Turkey and are from the photo albums of Abdul Hamid II, the 34th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. It consists of two parts that can be viewed side by side.

HC with a special "jacket", 16 x 22,5 x 1,5 cm., 88 pp., color ills., Spanish / English / Turkish

'Malanka' by Yelena YEMCHUK deals with a folklore ritual celebrated by ethnic Romanians in western Ukraine. She visited the village of Krasnoilsk to photograph the local Malanka. The photo series is personal, feminine, surreal and surrounded by magic.

'The Best Days' by Seung-Woo YANG is an early work, photographed between 1999 to 2006 during his studies in Tokyo. Driven by the suicide death of his comrade, he documented his life trajectory and people around him while he traveled between Japan & Korea.

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.

The out-of-print photographic volume '10 Days in Krakow' by Yuan-yuan YANG is a travelogue and scrapbook in one. It is structured in three chapters and consists of snapshots, diary entries and found or taken during the stay in the (Polish) city of Krakow.

The photo volume 'Untitled' by Shin YANAGISAWA is a powerful book that can be fully enjoyed for its delicate, yet coherent composition. 27 years passed since the last publication of a title by this Japanese photographer until this volume was republished.

The out-of-print, large-format photo volume is the first monograph on the photographic work by Japanese architect and photographer Iwao YAMAWAKI and illustrates the fascinating visual experiments of this very talented Bauhaus-era photographer.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 18 x 26,5 x 2 cm., 95 pp. +7 foldout pp., color ills., small bilingual texts: English / Japanese

Japanese bound pb. with dust jacket, 15 x 21 x 0,5 cm., 32 pp., color ills., bilingual (only informations): bilinguale text: Japanese / English, Ltd. to 500 numered copies

In her third photo book, XU documents the lives of people at the foot of the Great Wall of China. The wall is not a single, continuous structure, but a collection of fastenings that are also undergoing a visual transformation due to the change in China.

1st print run. Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 22,5 x 21,5 x 2 cm., 104 pp., 49 color ills., Ltd. to 600 numb. copies

The photo volume 'Shooting the Tiger' by Chinese-Dutch photographer Xiaoxiao XU shows an aspect of Chinese culture that is in the process of disappearing. It documents the colorful world of Shèhuo - we travel with her from village to village.

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.

'Casa de Campo' is a photographic fable by Antonio M. XOUBANOVA rooted firmly in the realities of Madrid’s largest public park. He wandered the paths of this urban woodland examining the people, animals and objects he saw as if he was on uncommon ground.

For his 'Scrapbook' with own experiences when he grew up in Belfast as the son of a mixed marriage in the 1970s and 1980s, the Irish photographer Donovan WYLIE used scrapbooks from Northern Ireland from the late 1960s to early 1990s as an inspiration.

The out of print photo book 'Outposts. Kandahar Province' by Irish magnum photographer Donovan WYLIE shows color photographs of the Forward Operating Bases that were set up in the Afghan province of Kandahar to support the ISAF mission.

With the out-of-print book 'North Warning System', Donovan WYLIE concludes his 'The Tower Series'. Surveying a radar station in the Canadian Arctic, the photographer explores the detection of unseen threats by unmanned observation posts in remote regions.

HC with dust jacket, 29,5 x 23 x 1,5 cm., 72 pp., color ills., text language: English

The out-of-print volume, 'Später Sommer. Letzter Herbst', follows in sequence & format the handmade leporello 'Später Sommer/Letzter Herbst' by Ulrich WÜST, transforming it into a book and brings together series as well as some individual images from 1989

Unlike in his thematic stories, out-of-print book 'Jahrebuch' by Ulrich WÜST reveals something very personal & private. Here, the world seems to be surrounded by a melancholy veil that does not conceal anything, but rather reveals the precision of vision.

In 2017 dutch photographer Bastiaan WOUDT visited and succeeded admirably in connecting with the people of Mukono. The result is a wide-ranging collection of remarkable monochrome portraits, alongside some surreal impressions of the local landscape.

The book 'Amsterdam Portraits' by Dutch photographer Bastiaan WOUDT presents a cross-section of Amsterdammers of all ages, origins and professions and thus gives a wonderful picture of the diversity of this city. This is what Amsterdam looks like today.

'Francesca Woodman: The Artist's Books' brings together all pages of her artist books in one book. The books convey her sophisticated relationship to narrative & sequence and offer a new understanding of the breadth of her engagement with the book format.

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 20 x 25 x 2 cm., 120 pp., 89 color ills., text language: English

'Ludwig Wittgenstein. Photography as Analytical Practice' contains his album, photographs of automata, and other self-portraits. In addition, the book places his photographs in a dialogue with the photographic practice and theory of contemporary artists.

This beautifully designed catalog volume, 'And Time Folds', accompanied the great retrospective of the British photographer Vanessa WINSHIP and includes all of her important series as well as heretofore unpublished current works.

The photographs by D'Angelo WILLIAMS in his volume 'Contact High' visualize the black body in theatrical, dance, and occasionally everyday scenes. The intimate images focus on notions of kinship and spirituality interwoven with quiet political gestures.

The book, 'War of Whispers' by John WILLHEIM is about what was later called 'the CIA's secret war' conflict in Laos in the 1960s/1970s. The photographer's sympathies were with the Hmong who fought this proxy war. The book design is by Sybren (SYB) KUIPER.

'A Parallel Road' by Amani WILLETT, explores in a nuanced & multi-layered way the themes of history, racism, violence as well as black identity in the USA. It reflects on the past & present within a major American theme and encourages an integral dialogue

'The Island of the Color Blind' by Sanne de WILDE documents a hereditary disease of people in Micronesia. The image selection obscures or emphasizes their eyes, faces and their way of seeing - the viewer is led into a dream world of colorful possibilities

The 'Miss Cox' project by Mariken WESSELS is a artistic translation of her fascination with an anonymous woman who posed for the camera of Eadweard MUYBRIDGE in 1885. She started making large clay sculptures, photographing obese models swimming underwater

In this photo book, the pictures are not thematic, but arranged according to stories - interwoven with their own stories. 'Sofort Bilder' is a photographic road movie through the early years of the artist, who quickly became world famous for his films.

'Interrogations' is the result of a search for the hidden meaning of the bloody 20th century. Donald WEBER addresses his questions to both the living survivors and the ghosts of the state's countless victims: cops, laborers, thugs, dissidents and goons.

Company publication from the 1990s by Scotland born prominent fashion photographer Albert WATSON