Swiss photographer

This 13-volumes collection on the work of Swiss photographer Jakob TUGGENER, 'Books and Films' contains facsimile editions of the first twelve original book dummies from the years 1936 to 1982 as well as a selection of his 16 mm short films on DVD.

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.

'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.

'Die Amerikaner' is the German edition of this work that looked at the Americans from a new perspective and which revolutionized the aesthetics of the photo book. It was first published in 2008, on the occasion of the anniversary of the French original.

Pb. in an envelope, 20,5 x 27,5 x 1 cm., 48 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

HC (flexicover), 24 x 33 cm., 548 pp., 283 color & 186 b/w ills., text language: English

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.

For 40 years the Swiss police officer Arnold ODERMATT captured accident scenes & property damage. What results from his official work is 'Karambolage', a selection of melancholic, sometimes funny & always strange atmospheric photos of our mobile society.

Re-edit, open thread-stitched pb., 17 x 23 x 1,5 cm., 128 pp., 74 b/w ills., bilingual texts: German / English

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 20,5 x 29,5 x 2,5 cm., 352 pp., 248 color ills., English / German

This out-of-print photographic volume 'London 1949' by René GROEBLI is the result of a two-week-staying in the bombed-out capital with his rolleiflex camera. The 2nd part of the book contains a series of images shot at London's Crystal Palace Park in 1951

'The Encyclopedia of Kurt CAVEZIEL' is the result of monitoring publicly accessible webcams located all over the world. By taking screenshots the artist compiled an archive of more than 3 million images, categorizing them for recurring patterns & subjects

The photographic volume 'Inexplicata Volantes' by Swiss photographer Luciano RIGOLINI contains photographs found in a ufology center. Reproduced without any manipulation, the images serve the need to explore their poetic power.

HC, 28 x 31,5 cm., 240 pp., 172 color ills.

Gebundene Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 24 x 30 cm.,m 196 S., 100 S/W-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY! Limitierte Auflage von 500 nummerierten Exemplaren

Out-of-print volume 'Raise the Bar' by Taiyo ONORATO & Nico KREBS deals with the distortion of perception by constructing outlines and frames of buildings in Berlin from reclaimed wood, which at the same time connects them with buildings in the distance.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 33 x 2 cm., 214 pp., 130 color ills., text language: English

The book 'Brasilia' by René BURRI documents growth & development of this urban utopia with Niemeyer’s buildings which become icons of 20th-century architecture. He visited the city for the first time in 1958 and returned many times over the next 30 years.

The volume 'Berner Blitz' by René BURRI is the first to focus on his photographs in color, in which he processed diverse motifs such as nature, religion, industry, politics and architecture. The photographic book was printed on polypropylene 'paper'.

Out-of-print book 'Human Territoriality' by Roger EBERHARD brings together photographs of former border areas around the globe and across human history. With detailed captions, the images help to decipher the multifaceted cartographic puzzle of our world.

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

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 20,5 x 30 cm., 208 pp., 123 color ills., English

HC (no dust jacket,m as issued), 22,5 x 30,5 x 2,5 cm., 240 pp., 165 color & b/w ills., English

The volume 'Fabrik' by Jakob TUGGENER conveys a critical view of the destructive potential of unchecked technological progress at a time when the arms industry was producing weapons for war. The uncompromisingly subjective photography underlines his view.

The book 'On Duty' by the Swiss police officer and self-taught photographer Arnold ODERMATT is an impressive document of a vanished and yet familiar time. It contains images in distant colors that greet us from the past like the smells of our childhood.

The out-of-print photographic volume 'Light of Other Days' by Nico KREBS and Taiyo ONORATO consists of a selection of photographed curious acts and objects, accompanied by the short story 'Eighteenth Voyage' by Russian Science Fiction writer Stanislaw LEM

'New York to Nova Scotia' evoked the career of Robert FRANK with letters, pictures, reviews and essays as well as 18 images by him. With letters written by W. Eugene SMITH, Louis FAURER, Gotthard SCHUH, as well as curators Hugh Edwards and Robert Delpire.

In 'The Great Unreal' Taiyo ONORATO & Nico KREBS deal with reality and its invention. They created narrative image sequences that address the theme of being on the road and also reveal associative connections to the over-medialized American landscape.

The out-of-print volume 'Werner Bischof. Leben und Werk' was published on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the death of the Swiss photographer, one of the most famous reportage photographers of the 20th century and member of Magnum photo agency.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 32 x 25 x 1,5 cm., 164 pp., 76 color ills., text language: English

HC + booklet & poster (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 28 cm. (booklet: 16 x 28 cm., poster: 41 x 53 cm.), 144 pp., highly illustrated, English, Ltd. to 800 copies

'London/Wales' by Robert FRANK combines two series of images whose contrast could not be stronger. With these photographs, he tells the timeless story of a society in transition. They are early testimonies to his search for new forms of poetic photography

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.

'Waters in Between' by Lukas FELZMANN shows the diversity of areas in the USA: agriculturally used areas, modern provincial towns as well as transition zones. Photographs of water in all its facets runs through the volume, just as water flows through.

In 'Swarm', Lukas FELZMANN deals with the flock movements of migratory birds. His b/w photographs offer a unique view of the beauty as well as the complexity and diversity of flight variations. 'Best Photography Book of the Year' Award, in 2012 in Madrid.

HC, 21x 28 x 2,5 cm., 152 pp., color ills. & drawings, bilingual text: German / French 152 pages

The black-and-white photographic in the volume 'Valencia' by Robert FRANK show daily life in a fishing village. His depiction is so natural and clear that further verbal explanations seem superfluous; they simply reflect 'the humanity of the moment'.

HC, 22 x 27 cm., 264 pp., 161 color ills., bilingual text: English / German

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.

2nd printrun, HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 19 x 25 cm., 156 pp., 53 color ills., language: 19 × 25 cm., language: English

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 19,5 x 26 x 2,5 cm., 304 pp., 380 color ills., English

In this book, 'Citizens,' Christian LUTZ documents places, movements, people of right-wing populist character across Europe. Far from the usual polarized reporting, he finds a multi-layered photographic approach to give expression to a deep-seated despair

'Peru' is of great historical importance in the history of photography. Some images of this series were known, but previously the entire series had been seen by only a few people. The volume presents the complete sequence of images, based on the original.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 25 x 32 cm., 160 pp., 106 color ills., 1.700 gr., trilingual text: German / English / French

The 80 b/w images in the book 'Paris' by Robert FRANK indicate how his experiences in the 'new world' have sharpened his eye: the city streets as a stage for human activity. The work clearly refers to Eugene ATGET and invokes the tradition of the flâneur.

The volume 'After work' contains masterpieces by Arnold ODERMATT, who trained his craft & his eye significantly on the tasks of his police service. His photo archive would possibly have been disposed of if the photographer's son had not rediscovered it.

The book 'Unseen Colour' contains around 200 images of color negatives by Werner BISCHOF, created in the first years after his graduation (1936) - in his studio for fashion and advertising photography, but also reportages of locations in war-torn Europe.