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Over 150 photo books from a private collection for sale. Signed titles, some in their original packaging and collector's editions with print from 2010 to 2016. Also to find next days with detailed description in the 'other second-hand photo books' section

In her rare, out-of-print volume 'Dildo', published in a very limited edition of only 55 copies, Japanese photographer Momo OKABE accompanies her friends in their transformation from woman to man. She developed her intimate, artistic photographs by hand.

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.

The out-of-print volume 'Early Works' by Issei SUDA contains black-and-white photographs that were published in several magazines between 1970 and 1975, prior to the 'Fushikaden' series - this photo collection is like a prologue to his personal history.

In 'Go-Sees. Girls Knocking on My Door', Juergen TELLER questions fashion industry and the world of models. Shot in the different lights of the changing seasons, but always at the entrance to his studio, the portraits seem to merge into a single image.

In 'A,' Gregory HALPERN takes us on a ramble through the Rust Belt.... The cities he is drawn to - Baltimore, Cincinnati, Omaha, Detroit - have a similar history to his hometown, and in this post-apocalyptic spring, all forms of life emerge and run riot.

The out-of-print volume 'In the Shadow of the Pyramids' by Magnum photographer Laura EL-TANTAWY appears to be a general account of the hopes and setbacks associated with the Egyptian revolution.But through the texts it gains considerable personal depth.

'I love you stupid' illustrates the fast life of young deceased artist Dash SNOW and his importance for the New York scene. The abundance of material as well as the 'appearances' of many people of the scene make this volume a document of US youth culture.

The self-published photo volume 'Discordia' by Moises SAMAN is a personal examination of the Arab Spring. The images from Syria, Libya and Egypt gain additional dynamics through the collages by Daria Birang. Folding pages create further cross-references.

The out-of-print photo book 'Belgian Autumn' by Jan ROSSEEL is the personal search for the perpetrators of a series of violent and bloody raids on Belgian supermarkets in which his father died. However, the 'Gang of Nivelles' responsible was never caught.

In his after sought and long-out-of-print volume 'Grays the Mountain Sends'Bryan SCHUTMAAT combines portraits, landscapes, and still lifes to explore the lives of working people residing in small mountain towns and mining communities in the American West.

Out-of-print photo volume 'Novemberrejse' by Krass CLEMENT consists of almost 80 b/w photographs showing life in a small Danish town. Every now and then the Danish photographer chooses unexpected angles and portrays some people from the shortest distance.

Out-of-print book 'Dialogues With Solitudes' brings together iconic images by Dave HEATH, who radically expressed feelings of alienation & isolation as early as the 1950s. In his text, Francesco Zanot situates the work within the history of US photography

2nd print run, HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 16 x 22,5 x 2,5 cm., 168 pp., 79 dutone ills., bilingual text: English / French

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.

Out-of-print book 'Tokyo' by Gerry JOHANSSON is a journey through a city at once futuristic and obsolete. Photography is used to index the city, finding form and pragmatic order through accumulation and sequence, revealing the city's hidden, modular logic

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 photo volume 'Redheaded Peckerwood' by American photographer Christian PATTERSON, which unerringly walks the fine line between fiction and nonfiction, is a disturbingly beautiful narrative about unfathomable violence and its place on the land

For his out-of-print photographic volume 'Miracle Chips', US-american photo artist John BALDESSARI mounts facial features in potato chips - perhaps also as a symbol of human fragility and transience. Maybe you discover them, maybe not.

Based on a classic landscape tradition, carefully composed 5x4 photographs are given a special effect by increasing the color & composition. Especially in moments when the expected narrative is roughly often gross due to pollution or destruction of nature

'Centralia' exposes hidden crimes of war as an indigenous people fight for their survival. It explores the unsteady relationship between reality & fiction and how our perceptions of reality & truth are manipulated. Shortlisted for First Book Award in 2017

This photo volume set 'Seven Stories' by Robert FRANK is a collection of small volumes that represents a new stage in his practice. As always, his photographs and stories relate to life and milieu: houses in Mabou and New York or trips to China and Spain.

Long out-of-print photo volume 'Bag Saga Blok' by Danish Krass CLEMENT, is a neighborhood portrait spanning over five decades around an old movie theater in Copenhagen's Vesterbro neighborhood - presented with an impressive range of photographic styles.

'Negatives are Stored' by Vladyslav KRASNOSHCHOK is an object of a wooden box with 53 colored reproductions of cabinet portraits and business cards. The originals are from Kharkov, initially the photographer only wanted to save them from their destruction

'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.

'Pantomime' by Daido MORIYAMA features the more or less complete series of his pictures of fetuses, stored in formalin, photographed at a maternity hospital in Kanagawa. This was his first own project after three years’ work as an assistant to Eikoh HOSOE

The photographs in out-of-print, large-formated 'New York Arbor' by Mitch EPSTEIN document the importance of trees to urban life in NYC, as well as their complex relationship with the residents. The superb printing makes viewing a breathtaking experience.

'Photographs', published to accompany the Alberto GARCÍA-ALIX retrospective, contains B&W photographs from 1975 to 1997. In addition to included chronology, bibliography, and a selection of critical texts, it is supplemented by a series of reflections.

SIGNED COPY! The out-of-print photo book 'Lebensmittel' (Food) by Michael SCHMIDT documents the industrialization in food production. The volume consisting of B/W & color photographs was the last publication on which he still worked until its completion.

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.

'Das Auge der Liebe' (The Eye of Love) by René GROEBLI owes its existence to a belated honeymoon. Sparsely furnished rooms, mirrors, beds, window views, wine, cigarettes - and his wife Rita. A love poem and a book for lovers, longing, seeking, desperate.

'The Atmosphere of Crime, 1957' by Gordon PARKS includes an expansive selection of never-before-published photographs from reportages he did for 'Life' on a six-week journey that took him to the streets of New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

The 'Hiroshi Sugimoto Collection' includes the five volumes from 2014 to 2019. Adopting different conceptual approaches and astounding aesthetic expedients, these series investigate his obsession though the photographic medium: the 'fossilization of time'

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.

'I Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine' by Pacifico SILANO works with printed ephemera of gay culture. He comments on loss, longing and melancholy. The leporello consists of sequences that can be read as a coherent collage or as a sequence of individual images.

Out-of-print book 'Hattfabriken' by Gerry JOHANSSON documents the architectural details of the building by Erich Mendelsohn as well as more buildings that reflect the history of the factory and the turbulent political periods from the 1920s to the present

In 'Temptation of Life' by Boris MIKHAILOV, older images enter into a dialogue with those from 2017, taken in a Soviet-era Kiev crematorium, as well as in decaying corners of Eastern & Western European cities and in bedrooms and hospitals, and night bars.

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 22 x 28 x 1,5 cm., 72 pp., 31 color ills., 950 gr., no text

The US report in out-of-print book 'Heartland' by Thomas HOEPKER is a prime example of committed photojournalism personally interpreted, of photography as reportage at the highest level of formal aestheticism. Photo history and at the same time up to date

In his out-of-print photo book 'Dark Knees', Mark COHEN documents his hometown of Wilkes-Barre for more than 40 years through the eyes of a stranger. With their dazzling combination of lines, the images convey this sense of restless energy and strangeness

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

Limited edition photo book 'Bike Kill' shows life in a Brooklyn bike club. The French Julie GLASSBERG spent three years documenting the world of the Black Label Bike Club. The title refers to an annual celebration of bike chopping, friendship and anarchy.

The catalog title 'Indstillinger', means both on the camera setting and the personal attitude of Danish photographer Krass CLEMENT. We see works from several known books: Roskilde, Faergen, Novemberrejse and there are also many unknown photos to discover.

In his out-of-print photo volume 'Tonatiuh', Juan BRENNER examines the contemporary Guatemalan society from the perspective of the mestizaje and the consequences of the Spanish conquest in the form of a complex, segregated and deeply troubled society.

This out-of-print monograph on the work of the Iraqi photographer Latif al ANI gives a very good impression of international life in the 1960s and 1970s in a metropolis in the Middle East. 112 b/w photographs in almost page-filling square format.

Cloth bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 27 x 30 x 2 cm., 120 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

In the 1970s and 1980s, Italian photographer Luigi GHIRRI pursued a project characterized by empathy for the changing everyday spaces of his time. During his short career he created a large number of color photographs as well as influential essays.

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.

'Waga Tokyo 100' tries to record Shitamachi Tokyo. Instead of drawing a portrait of the city, however, the Japanese photographer Issei SUDA documents the people who live there. Although it is not a narrative, the selected photos form a whole.

'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