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The out-of-print 'Zeitblende' was published on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the famous photo agency Magnum. The picture & text book provides an overview of the impressive field of reportage photography that is commensurate with its significance

This anthology contains 160 pictures by ninety female photographers to answer the question of whether there is a 'female gaze' in photography. The focus is on the four major subject areas of social reality, family, female body and virtual reality.

The photo book 'Dr. Paul Wolff & Alfred Tritschler. Printed Images' shows how 35mm Leica photography changed society and consumers in the Weimar Republic period and the 'Third Reich', and the leading role played by the two photographers in this process.

'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 unique collection, named as the 'William Eggleston PhotoBookLibrary', consists of 20 titles by renowned American photographer William EGGLESTON. Some titles have been out of print for a long time and can here only be purchased in their entirety.

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.

This volume, 'Brett Weston: Master Photographer', is the most comprehensive overview of the life and photography of Brett WESTON. It covers the six decades of his work (1925-1986), each introduced by an essay by renowned authors such as Beaumont Newhall.

This photo volume, 'Les Villes, La Rue, L'Autre' by Sabine WEISS, which is out of print at the publisher, covers the period 1945-1960: reconciled with reality, she casts an understanding look at people's search for moments of peace and dreaming.

'The Poetry of the Instant' offers the most comprehensive overview to date of the work of Sabine WEISS. It traces her entire career, from reportage for magazines of the time to portraits of artists, fashion and street photography, and numerous travels.

English edition. The text and picture book 'Andy Warhol. EXHIBITS a glittering alternative' explores the exhibition strategies of the American artist Andy WARHOL. It presents probably the most famous icon of Pop Art as an installation artist and curator.

The German-language edition of the text and photo book about the exhibition strategies of Pop Art icon Andy WARHOL.

This Walker-EVANS-Photobook-Library consists of 22 mostly English-language titles from the years 1966 to 2015, also including secondary literature on his work - like compendia on his work within the FSA with LANGE, ROTHSTEIN, DELANO and PARKS.

The photo volume 'Deutschland. Die frühen Jahre. 1951 - 1969' by Walter VOGEL contains black-and-white photographs taken in the post-war period in his native Düsseldorf and the Ruhr area. This was also the time of his training with Otto STEINERT in Essen.

'Vier Frauen. Vier Lebensläufe: Fotografieren in der DDR' focuses on female photographers from Saxony - Christine STEPHAN-BROSCH, Evelyn KRULL, Gerdi SIPPEL and May VOIGT - who are representative of a large number, some of whom have almost been forgotten.

Gebundene Ausgabe, 30,5 x 22 x 1,5 cm., 128 S., S/W-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

The xtremely rare photo volume 'Underground Generation' contains works by Daido MORIYAMA, Eikoh HOSOE, Jun MORINAGA, Masahisa FUKASE, Kishin SHINOYAMA and Kenji ISHIGURO who were in 1968 out and about with their cameras. in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo.

The monograph 'Small Biography' features photographs by Shoji UEDA from the 1930s to the 1990s, originally published in Camera Mainichi magazine between 1974 and 1985. The limited edition of 1000 copies was numbered with an ink stamp on the colophon page.

'Die Lust am Sehen' (The Desire to See) contains texts by Francois Truffaut: critical texts (e.g. 'A certain tendency in French film', the 1954 article that established his reputation) as well as later articles in which he processes his own experiences.

The out-of-print volume 'Transréalités' by Arthur TRESS contains photographs taken in Brooklyn & New York in the 1950s, including the dream images and fantasies that made him famous. The selection reflects in particular the influence of neo-realist film.

The out-of-print volume 'Retrospective' deals with the staged & surrealist photography of Arthur TRESS, whose work is characterized by allegorical wit and narrative acuity, as well as challenging the imagination and understanding of the dark sides of life

The selection made for this book, 'Photographs 1951-2000', shows why Shomei TOMATSU is regarded by almost all living Japanese photographers - including the stars of the scene like Nobuyoshi ARAKI or Daido MORIYAMA - as 'godfather' of Japanese photography.

The 'Phaidon 55' book series provides a fascinating, pocket-sized introduction to some very important, influential, visionary photographers. Shomei TOMATSU is very well represented with a selection of great photographs that show the course of his career.

Slipcased Set of 2 Pb., 18,5 x 26 x 2,5 / 1 (text) cm., 168 (+78) pp., b/w & color ills

This paperback volume, 'Shomei Tomatsu. Japan 1952-1981' from 1984 is a very informative catalog on the work of the Japanese photographer due to its well-made, precise selection of black-and-white photos as well as the essays written in two languages.

This out-of-print German-language monograph, 'Chewing Gum and Chocolate', about the work of the Japanese post-war photographer Shomei TOMATSU provides a good overview of the work of one of the most important Japanese photographers of the 20th century.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 29,5 x 24 x 2,5 cm., 176 pp., text language: German - GERMAN TEXT ONLY! Kerber Verlag, 2013.

The out-of-print photo volume 'Tichy' (with 132 color reproductions) accompanied the exhibition on the Czech Miroslav Tichy at the Kunsthaus Zürich in 2005. The German-language texts are by Tobias Bezzola and Roman Buxbaum, foreword by Christoph Becker.

The out-of-print book 'Miroslav Tichý' contains blurred images by the Czech that are reminiscent of pictures by Gerhard RICHTER or Sigmar POLKE. Thousands of photographs taken in the 1960s and 70s with self-made cameras made of cardboard and adhesive tape

The volume 'Tichy' contains around 80 reproductions of photographs & paintings by the Czech photographer Miroslav TICHY. The introduction is by Harald Szeemann, the essay by Roman Buxbaum (both in English). With a bibliography and a list of reproductions.

This out-of-print cataloue contains a juxtaposition consisting of five portraits by British photographer Julia Margaret CAMERON, followed by twenty-eight photographs by Miroslav TICHY. With the essay 'Long Moments' by Tessa Praun in English and Swedish.

With works by Robert FRANK, Garry WINOGRAND, Joel STERNFELD, William EGGLESTON, Alec SOTH, Victor BURGIN, Taino ONORATO & Nico KREBS and many more

by Horacio Fer#andez (ed.), , HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 32 x 3 cm., 255 pp., richly illustrated, text language: English

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 27 x 29 x 6 cm., 516 pp., 3,000 ills., text language: English. Steidl, 2017.

by Thomas Seelig & Urs Stahel (eds.) Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 25 x 30,5 x 5cm., 400 S., reich bebildert,deutsch-sprachiger Text - here: GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

The volume 'The Absolute Realist' by Daniel H. Magilow unites in one volume the skillful ideas of Albert RENGER-PATZSCH about the defining visual medium of modernity. It's the first English translation of the German photographer's collected writings.

'Life and Work' about Andrei TARKOVSKY brings together film stills, Polaroids & documentary photos for each of his films, writings and private photos. A tribute to a great visionary who thought in poetic, often disturbing images of almost biblical force.

'Today Tokyo' by Chotoku TANAKA is a testimony of an era of change and the changed perception during the Olympic Games in 1964 - not only but also for the Japanese themselves: not as the capital of a defeated country, but as a dynamic city in the Far East

'Swiss Photobooks from 1927 to the Present' is a fascinating coverage of 70 books mostly by Swiss born photographers that manages to present a clear overview of Swiss photography. A quite remarkable book revealing some wonderful titles to a wider audience

Out-of-print catalog 'Soul and Soul by Kiyoshi Suzuki', coincided a retrospective exhibition. It brings together the two mediums in a worthy tribute to the artist that surveys both his approach to photography and the various book dummies that he designed.

The trilingual photo book 'Street Life' by Antanas SUTKUS contains early black and white photographs from Vilnius, the capital of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Lithuania at the time. They show tiny islands of individuality in a strict and brutal system

'Tokyokei' documents both: Issei SUDA's very personal view of his hometown and an important Japanes period. This photo book is perhaps the most personal title of the Japanese master. It contains 106 previously unpublished b/w photos from the 1970s and 80s

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 25,5 x 32,5 cm., 128 pp., 90 ills., Ltd. to 500 copies

The out-of-print reissue of 'Poste Restante' by Christer STRÖMHOLM comprises the original photographs, layout, and texts, including the unrevised introduction from 1967. He recounts childhood memories and various of his experiences during World War II.

The book 'Post Scriptum' is by far the most comprehensive monograph on the life and work of Swedish photographer Christer STRÖMHOLM. It contains almost 270 of his best photographs, as well as a biography and essays by Carole Naggar and Christian Caujolle.

In out-of-print book 'Les Amies de Place Blanche' by Christer STRÖHOLM shows the Parisien nightlife around 'Pigalle' night club in the 1950, which was dominated by a transsexual scene. The b/w images show his documentary strength and his love of humanity.

This photo volume is dedicated to Christer STRÖMHOLM (1918-2002), one of the major figures of 20th century European photography. With an unmistakable sensitivity to human suffering, based on his personal experience, he took photography in a new direction

The poetic and radical photographs by Jindřich ŠTREIT are also part of the photo volume 'Village People 1965-1990'. He created a universal image of man and his black and white photos are among the great classics of humanistic photography.

Out-of-print photo catalog 'Streetwise' brings together the work of photographers who explored social change in the 1960s in the USA: Diane ARBUS, Ruth BARUCH, Jerry BERNDT, Bruce DAVIDSON, Lee FRIEDLANDER, Danny LYON, Garry WINOGRAND & Ernest WITHERS.

The out-of-print photographic book 'Paul Strand: The World on my Doorstep' contains, in addition to his best pictures from his late years - 1950 to 9176 - an intimate biographical essay, as well as an essay by Ute Eskildsen on his portraits & landscapes.

For out-of-print book 'Ghana. An African Portrait', Paul STRAND collected and found motifs - landscapes, architecture, portraits, street scenes - that were suitable for documenting the transition to modernization of Ghana, who had declared as independent.

The photographs in 'First Pictures' by Joel STERNFELD were taken at a time when color photography had not yet been able to assert itself against the B/W tradition. They make this photo volume a revelation also in the history of contemporary photography.

The out-of-print volume 'Marilyn Monroe' by US-American photographer Bert STERN contains a selection of the most beautiful color & b/w images taken during Marilyn's 'Last Sitting' 1962 in los Angeles, pictures of indescribable sensual and human charisma.

The images by Uwe STEINBERG in 'Berlin. Fotografien 1963-1983' range from observations in the Central Market Hall at Alexanderplatz from the early 1960s to insights into the industrial working world of the 70s to a long-term study of Schönhauser Allee.

The retrospective catalog 'Schöne Aussichten' includes not only well-known works by Klaus STAECK, but also the still largely unknown photos of the Bitterfeld cycle, which finds its artistic position between documentation and photographed historiography.

The 'Soviet Union' left behind a huge legacy of design that is largely unknown in the West. For the first time, this opulent volume offers a richly overview of Soviet interior architecture from constructivism to Art Deco and back to Avantgarde & Bauhaus.

In her German-language volume 'Das Leiden anderer betrachten,' Susan Sontag recapitulates the historical development of war photography from Spanish Civil War to Afghanistan, and asks: what does the sight of a suffering human being trigger in the viewer?

'Sonne, Meer und nackte Menschen' (The Nudist Films of Swiss Werner Kunz) presents the first detailed account of the forgotten film pioneer. Numerous stills illustrate the works and visual material from the private archive the extensively researched book.

The tree studies in this out-of-print photo volume, 'Trad' by Gunnar SMOLIANSKY, are social journalism in photographic form where people have left the scenery. The footage of fallen trees, however, is too vulnerable to please avid conservationists.

The out-of-print volume 'One picture at a Time. Photographs 1952 - 2008' accompanied the retrospective of the work of Gunnar SMOLIANSKY, who became the leading voice in Swedish photography thanks to his idiosyncratic style and quiet attention to detail.

Out-of-print monograph on William Eugene SMITH shows images from six series: 'Country Doctor', 'Spanish Village', 'Nurse Midwife', 'A Man of Mercy', 'Minamata', as well as 'Pittsburgh'. It contains texts by himself about his working methods and principles

Out-of-print book 'The Camera as Conscience' is based on the archive of William Eugene SMITH and contains famous as well as previously unpublished images from the 1930s to the 1970s, mostly essays for 'Life', such as 'Country Doctor' and 'Spanish Village'

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued) 23 x 28 x 2,5 cm., 128 pp., 14 color & 96 duotone b/w ills., text language: English

HC, 30 x 30 cm., 108 pp.

'Sibylle' showcases photographers, fashion- & graphic designers, models, writers as well as its political & sociocultural background of almost 50 year long publishing history as the definitive publication on an important chapter of German media history.

'Shunk-Kender. Art through the Eye of the Camera. 1957-1983' accompanied the first retrospective. It documents the heady days of American and European postwar art and is an example of a rarely recognized photographic genre: the photography of art as art.

The book 'There I Was' by Collier SCHORR marks a change of medium as well as a conceptual departure. Using images of her father at work to Snyder's own snapshots of Vietnam to reportage images, she outlines Snyder's journey from Queens to Vietnam and back

The out-of-print catalog for huge Michael SCHMIDT retrospective, took place in Berlin, includes well-known and rarely seen works as well as the very informative texts by renowned authors can already be considered a reference work about Berlin photographer

The German-language text volume 'About my artists' contains speeches, lectures, texts about German and international photographers, artists, friends, books and works on the 75th birthday of the publisher's founder and director Lothar Schirmer.

In this book, 'Showa 35', photographer Hajime SAWATARI documents the 1960s in Japan in color as well as in black and white. Thematically, the finely printed volume includes demonstrations and burning houses as well as jazz scenes and children rocking...

Selected as one of the Photo-Eye Best Photobooks of 2013, this special designed selection of full-length portraits, made in Chinese photo studios between the 1930s and the 1980s, reveals fragments of the history of Chinese society and ideology.

For 'Floridas' Anastasia SAMOYLOVA photographed the sunshine state on intensive road trips. Black-and-white photographs by Walker EVANS from the 1930s to the 1970s are presented parallel to the contemporary color photos, thus interweaving past and present

'Here Far Away. Photographs 1964-2011' presents a comprehensive retrospective of the work of photographer Pentti SAMMALAHTI. It takes its viewers from his native Scandinavia through the Soviet republics & Siberia, Europe & Great Britain, Asia & Africa.

In 'Des Oiseaux', Finish travel photographer Pentti SAMMALLAHTI captures the secrets of nature and among them the world of birds. Coasts, marshes, parks, endless plains, forest clearings, snowy landscapes where birds reveal their presence in a refined way

The prints reproduced in out-of-print book 'Masterful Images. The Art of Kiyoshi Saito' reproduced prints cover the entire oeuvre of Japanese artist. In addition to the strikingly well-printed images, the volume also includes an essay by editor Barry Till

HC with dust jacket, 19 x 24 x 2,5 cm., 240 pp., 146 b/w ills., multilingual language: French, English, Polish & Russian

'VERY' not only covers the period from the 1960s, but also shows the technically and graphically new approaches in Ed RUSCHA's work. An essay by George Condo and an interview by the curator of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art round off the volume.

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

The out-of-print volume 'Ed Ruscha. Road Tested' contains key works from throughout the artist's career and how his penchant for driving and mobility inspired him. A fold-out map shows his 1956 driving route, as well as several other stops in Los Angeles.

Ed RUSCHA is known for his paintings & drawings, but also for his photography. This catalog volume, 'Photographer', examines how the artist's various disciplines - painting, drawing, printmaking and photography - were guided and shaped by a single vision.

This out-of-print catalog includes works by Ed RUSCHA from the 1960s to the early 2000s. Essays place painting, language use, and his photography in an art historical context and draw parallels to U.S. painters and the history of documentary photography.

This catalogue volume 'Ed Ruscha. Photography' traces his photographic commitment and shows how his photographic work shed new light on his entire career. It contains reproductions of original prints as well as previously unpublished photographic material

For his 'Tableaux chinois', Thomas RUFF has digitally processed Chinese propaganda images distributed worldwide by the Communist Party. In this large-format photo volume, the work transports the images of the 20th century into today's visual language.

In her photo volume 'Shadows in Paradise', Marianna ROTHEN delves into a complex meditation on femininity. In the opaque narrative in the aesthetics of the 1960s, the presence of a gun visually combines with fear and melancholy in carefully staged scenes.

In 'Zuerst das Leben' Willy RONIS documents a modern socialism, ignoring the problems of the system. These are pictures about everyday life in the GDR, which - detached from the context of the Cold War - unfold their full stylistic and aesthetic effect.

The out-of-print catalog illuminates more than 60 years of French photographer Willy RONIS' long career and covers all thematic aspects of his work. Shown is a sharp & sensitive observer of everyday French life, a great humanist & chronicler of a century.

The book 'Belleville-Ménilmontant' by French photographer Willy RONIS shows a unique testimony of a vanished, humble, carefree Paris. Didier Daeninckx, has come up with the story of a man who has returned to retrace his steps to the atmospheric b/w shots.

A collection of various photo book titles by the US-american photographer Robert ADAMS (b.1937). The titles listed in this set are out of print and / or signed. This complete offer can include various editions of the same title.

Broschierte Ausgabe (in Klappenbroschur), 24 x 28 x 1,5 cm., 136 S., 87 S/W-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 15 x 19,5 x 1,5 cm., 112 pp., 50 duplex b/w ills., bilingual text: German / English

The catalogue 'Heinrich Riebesehl. Fotografische Serien 1963-2001', shows the diverse work of Heinrich RIEBESEHL and his consistent work in series, like the photographs of the early happenings of Joseph BEUYS or the picture series 'Menschen im Fahrstuhl'.

The pictorial worlds by artist Gerhard RICHTER are characterized by abstraction and representationalism. Out-of-print volume 'Landscape', a genre to which he has remained faithful for over sixty years, makes the development of his painting style visible.

Cloth bound HC with tipped in photograph (no dust jacket, as issued), 31,5 x 26,5 x 2 cm., 176 pp., 82 color ills., text language: English

'Gerhard Richter. Images of an Era' describes 40 works, contains essays by experts and self-testimonies. His cycle '18. Oktober 1977' on the death of the RAF members is of central importance. With this he concludes the group of paintings after photographs