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The book 'Magic Eye' offers an overview of the work of René GROEBLI. We discover his fascination for movement and speed. And we encounter the rich hues of his unique, innovative color photography, through which even commissioned works become timeless art.

This perfectly produced photo volume, 'Kvidinge' by Gerry JOHANSSON, contains photographs taken between 2004 and 2007. It has been published in April 2007 as part of the exhibition 'On the verge of his existence' at the Hasselblad Center in Stockholm.

Catalan photographer Txema SALVANS' keen view of contemporary Spanish society. In the photo book 'My Kingdom' he combines black and white photos with quotes from the political rhetoric of the former King of Spain. This methodology makes emotions visible.

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.

In her book, 'Unprofessional', Matilde RASMUSSEN explores her time as a professional model in Asia, questioning power structures, beauty ideals and objectification. A playful and devastating book between documentation & fiction, performance & real life.

The photo volume 'Two Rivers' by Magnum member Carolyn DRAKE deals about the two most important rivers in Central Asia, Amu Darya and Syr Darya. The self-published, unconventional book was designed by prominent Dutch photo book designer Sybren KUIPER.

'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.

Paola de PIETRI's photographs in the photo book 'New Istanbul Stories' document the effects of the changing urban landscape of Istanbul on people. Posture and language reflect the unstable state of mind of a new, very mixed class of native migrants.

'An Attic Full of Trains' contains a selection of 8000 previously unpublished pictures by the Italian photographer Alberto di LENARDO. The color photos from the 1960s to 80s complement your Luigi GHIRRI or Guido GUIDI collection perfectly.

The book 'Between Girls' by American photographer Karen MARSHALL shows a group of teenagers in New York and documents the emotional bonds between 16-year-old girls to show as well as their symbolic relationships. The book design is by Teun van der HEIJDEN

Re-edit. 'Shikishima' by Tamiko NISHIMURA is rather one of the lesser-known book classics from the 1970s; it is the result of a journey through her homeland. The photographer was once an assistant to Daido MORIYAMA, who also influenced her stylistically.

Stephen SHORE's out-of-print photo volume 'Winslow Arizona' includes a selection of images he presented during contemporary artist Doug Aitken's 'Station to Station' project, which filmed a trans-American journey by train.

'45' by Damian HEINISCH, is about train journeys on the Donesz-Oslo line that took place at three different times. It brings together a common family history, first in pictures followed by diary-like short texts. The 35mm photos are from his last trip.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 13 x 18 1 cm., 88 pp., b/w ills., text language: Japanese, Ltd. to 500 copies

The objects in the photo volume '¥ € $ U $' by Pawel JASZCZUK are sometimes so screaming & grotesque that the meaning of religion can at least be examined not only for the people in Poland. The photographs are printed on paper with a high-gloss varnish.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 17,5 x 24 x 1 cm., 120 pp., b/w ills., bilingual texts: English / German. Ltd. to 500 copies

This out-of-print photo volume, '40 let fotoreportérem', offers a comprehensive overview of the work of Emil FAFEK. Starting with photos from the Second World War and the Liberation, through the Reconstruction to the Czech politics of the 1950s to 1980s.

The book 'The Naval Base' is about a Dutch town that was built, bombed and rebuilt by the government. Rob HORNSTRA documents how people live in and with the naval base. The photos are accompanied by text and commentary; the design is by KUMMER & HERRMAN.

This book, '1416 Anholt' by Jäger ARÉN, shows the everyday life on the Danish island between Denmark and Sweden. With a sensitive eye and his Leica cameras, he has roamed nooks and crannies of the island, which has been his summer retreat since childhood.

In 'Pithead' Fatih KURCEREN directs his gaze at the Ruhr region and its inhabitants. To do so, he moves along the blurred edges of a society whose center seems just as unclear as the questions about its norms and about what is foreign to it or its own.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 26 x 31 x 3 cm., 228 pp., 178 color ills., English

The photo volume 'Sight' by Yoko ASAKAI contains portraits of people from all over the world watching a film at home. The relationship between looking and being looked at is explored. The concentrated-portrait subjects seem to be unaware of the camera.

In 'End of the Caliphate', Ivor PRICKETT focuses on the human struggles of the conflict against the IS state. His frontline footage, compellingly captures the experience of being caught 'in the crossfire'. He is also preoccupied with the post-war reality.

'The Winners' by Rafal MILACH, is dedicated to the winners of state and local competitions supported by the Belarusian authorities. The list of winners also includes the best of the best in competitions promoting the beauty or maintenance of public spaces

'La Puente' about women in a brothel in Ecuador by Charlotte SCHMITZ won the FotoEvidence competition to publish the series as a book. The polaroids were created in cooperation with the women, who chose their poses and painted the photos with nail polish.

'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

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)

Signed & numbered photo book 'White and Vinegar' by Daido MORIYAMA brings together images and selected essays he has written since his youth over 40 years ago. The b/w images were shot from nearly square instant prints and then cropped to 35mm film format

Published in limited edition, this book of photographs, 'America Revisited' by Swedish photographer Gerry JOHANSSON, consists of 83 images in black and white taken during his travels in the United States over the past forty years.

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21,5 x 14,5 x 1 cm., 168 pp., b/w ills., Ltd. to 5 of 500 copies, bilingual text: English / Japanese

In 'Don't Fade to Grey', Olaf UNVERZART creates images that raise subtle, melancholic questions. His coarse-grained b/w images, taken with analog cameras, associate both transience & openness. It was designed by the award-winning designer Andreas TÖPFER.

This book, 'Happy End' by Dietmar ECKELL, hosts aircraft wrecks from around the world. Inspired by the 'average painters' of the Romantic period, the photographer documents how the aviators have found their final resting place and are now part of nature.

New edition of the long out-of-print photo volume, 'Berlin, Fruchtstraße am 27. März 1952'. Arwed MESSMER and Annett Gröschner address the facets of photo documentary by creating the portrait of a street of 32 individual photographs by Fritz TIEDEMANN.

This photo book, 'Shoji Ueda', which has been out of print for a long time, is the first monograph on the renowned Japanese photographer. The trilingual edition contains a large number of previously unpublished photographs in black and white as well as in

For 'Hundert', Olaf UNVERZART returns to his Upper Palatinate home to portray the one hundredth year of his grandmother's life. The photographer unfolds the reality of his protagonist's life in intimate close-ups of the centenarian and landscape images.

In 'Dori' Kaamna PATEL tries to link questions about love and family by documenting the relationship of her grandparents, which is eminently important to her. This self published volume was short listed for the Paris Photo Aperture Photobook Award 2021.

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.

Pb., 15 x 22 cm., 128 pp., 100 ills., text language: French, Ltd. to 500 copies!

In 'Photosynthesis. 1978-1980', Keiichi TAHARA explores the relationship between light and the human body. He experimented with various types of light and environment, in Paris, Rome, New York, Iceland, Bordeaux, Tokyo, Kujuu-Kurihama and Akikawa-Keikoku.

'Devil's Promenade' by DOLEZAL & SHIPLEY is about returning to their home region in the Midwest of the USA, a journey into the dense forests where anything can happen: either bathing in the light of salvation or facing the devil in the deepest darkness.

In a series of black and white images, this photo volume, 'Falling Water' by Toshio SHIBATA captures dam infrastructure across Japan and the USA, a series the Japanese architecture photographer began two decades ago and continued. The result is this book.

'MARVEL' by Marvel HARRIS describes the journey of his personal battles with mental illness, self-love, acceptance, and gender identity, all told through a searing collection of self-portraits spanning the course of five years. MACK First Book Award 2021.

This beautifully designed, brocaded large format volume 'Daughters' by Margaret de LANGE brings together for the first time the complete collection of beautiful, award-winning black & white photographs that the mother took of her two growing up daughters.

This photo volume, 'Paris Plus' by Daido MORIYAMA, represents the expanded edition of his view of the French capital, where the master photographer lived alone in the late 1980s. This volume additionally includes photographs from the years 1990 and 2003.

SIGNED COPY! Out-of-print 'One Day in November' by Jessica BACKHAUS is a tribute to Gisèle FREUND on what would have been her one 100th birthday in Dec. 2008, a testament to the friendship between a great photographer and a student in Paris during the 90s

SC with plastic dust jacket, 20 x 15 x 1 cm., 180 pp., color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 850 copies

2nd print run, slipcased pb., 23,5 x 29,5 x 1 cm., 48 pp., 54 b/w ills., 500 gr., text language: English, Ltd. to 350 copies

In 'Nsenene' Michele SIBILONI documents the self-image of Ugandans who stay awake night after night until dawn to catch locusts and sell them. Although this happens at the other end of the world, it is about the future perspective of our planet Earth.

The out-of-print photo book 'Venten på i går. Waiting for yesterday' by Danish photographer Krass CLEMENT brings together (some full-page) color as well as black-and-white photographs from East Berlin before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall. No text.

The idea for the volume 'The Dreaming' by Yasuhiro OGAWA arose when he, on the occasion of his 50th birthday, went through his archives from 27 years as a photographer & traveler. The retrospective contains moments, which has something dreamlike for him.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21,5 x 30 x 3,5 cm., 749 pp., b/w ills., bilingual texts: German / English

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 30 x 21 x 1,5 cm., 101 pp., b/w ills., 990 gr., German text only

The out-of-print photo volume 'Surrounded by No One' Margaret M. de LANGE, her second book, focuses on loneliness. It is a personal documentation in b/w, both of people close to her and those she has met only briefly, and of the loneliness they encounter.

In his debut photo book, 'Fotografien 1991 1995', Laurenz BERGES shows the condition of barracks rooms like former Soviet troops, as they presented themselves after the fall of the Wall: clean-swept rooms that he photographed in daylight and in color.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 27,5 x 20,5 x 1,5 cm., 18 pp., color ills., text language: English

Drawing a trail, setting the direction, being responsible. Traces on asphalt in the snow, traces of light on a ceiling, traces on the ground, traces of time. Moments somewhere. Olaf UNVERZART traces moments with the camera, random sections, blur phenomena

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

During the work on the book 'As it may be', Bieke DEPOORTER gradually became aware of her status as an outsider - culturally and as a photographer. So she traveled back to Egypt with a book dummy and invited people to write comments directly on the photos

The images in the 18th volume of the book series 'In Almost Every Picture', edited by Dutch photo artist Erik KESSELS, show changing faces, the sights of a Romanian city in its heyday of the 1960s and 1970s and a photogenic German shepherd with no name.

This photo volume, 'Bunt: Farbige 1970er Jahre' (Colored. Colorful 1970s) by early BECHER student Volker DÖHNE, shows photographs of colorful cars in groups as well as stand-alone gazebos. The book is rounded off by a German-language introductory text.

HC with dust jacket, 28 x 30 x 3 cm., 240 pp., b/w ills., English

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.

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 book 'River Under Earth' by Dmitry ERMAKOV shows some essence of the original beauty of the European part of Russia - from Baltic Sea to Western Siberia - where real pagans live and Orthodox Russia is a silent agreement of the people with the rulers.

Pb. with four-color printed PVC dust jacket, 22,5 x 31 x 1,5 cm., 144 pp70 color ills. + index of sourced reference materials, text language: English

'The People’s Trust' by Michael VAHRENWALD shows the changing financial institutions, specifically the repurposed remains of 19th & 20th century banks across the USA. The monumentality of these neo-classical facades stands in contrast with their new roles

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 Fourth Wall', a self-published photo book printed on newsprint by Belgian photographer PINCKERS, examines the Indian film world in combination with a collection of contemporary photos. It was nominated for the Paris Photo Aperture Book Award 2013.

This self published photo volume, 'Songbirds' by Katrín ELVARSDÓTTIR, consists of grainy, imperfect color photographs which show (mainly) canaries in Cuban cages. Besides in room cages, two-thirds-pictures - as negatives - show urban views of Havana.

'Köln am Dom' by Volker DÖHNE consists of b/w photographs showing Cologne's city center, with the Cathedral or at least the spires always being visible. In intelligent essays, the authors comment on the changes in the architectural appearance of this city

'Cotton' by Mark COHEN is a photo book with a political and social backstory. Instead of miles of cotton fields, he documents their traces in small cardboard boxes. With the camera he makes an unconscious litmus test exposed to the acid nature of racism.

In 'Die versiegelte Zeit' (The Sealed Time) Andrei TARKOVKSI writes about directing, the role of the actor and the audience, about camera, music, montage & script. This new edition lists the texts for the first time in their finality desired by the author

'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 black-and-white photographs in the photo volume 'Shimagatari' by Yasuhiro OGAWA relate to Japanese photography of the 1970s through their truthfulness and coarseness. Despite the darkness in the shots, the images also have something light-hearted.

Bodonian HC (no dust jacket, as issued)), 15 x 18,5 x 1,5 cm., 80 pp., color ills., no text - Ltd. to 200 copies

The photo volume 'Life Eternal' by Takeshi DODO shows alldays living, portraits and nature in Kawakami, a village in Nara Prefecture, Japan, located at the headwaters of the Yoshino River. A portrait of an unyielding spirit that connects past and present.

78 pictures bettween two cards, hold on one corner, 13,5 x 22 cm., 32 pp., no text, Ltd. to 100 numbered copies

Five new volumes of the long-term book-project 'City Diary' by Peter BIALOBRZESKI were published for Paris Photo 2021. The documented cities are Dhaka, Yangon, Minsk, Belfast as well as Linz. They are offered here in one set, there are still predecessors!

Swiss bound pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 26 x 1 cm., 132 pp., b/w ills., bilingual texts: Lithuanian / English - Ltd. to 500 copies

This self published volume, 'Twentysix Ceramic Fountains' by French photographer Franck LANDRON, shows 26 b/w photographs of urinals from all over the world in the style of the cult book 'Twentysix Gasoline Stations' by American (photo) artist Ed RUSCHA.

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 30 x 25 x 2,5 cm., 144 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

This volume, 'Once, When We Were Happy' by Misha PIPERCIC, is about family and his hometown Sarajevo, as well as Bosnia, about former Yugoslavia, feelings, survival, fears, understanding & not understanding the war, wounds & healing. His red line is LOVE.

The reissue of 'Sacchin' contains photos of street children taken in 1964 by the young Nobuyoshi ARAKI. Who exactly these children are and where they play is irrelevant - the narrative moment in these photos lies in the nostalgia that this series evokes.

'Photographs. 1980s to now ', contains for the first time a selection of the work of the South African photographer Jo RACTLIFFE. Looking over the past 35 years, it contains images from important photo essays as well as works that have never been shown.

Broschiertes Exemplar in Japanischer Bindung, 18 x 23 x 1 cm., 136 S., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY! - Ltd. to 333 copies

Author Book Award 2021. The book 'Freedom Is Not Free' by Mashid MOHADJERIN, accompanies an exhibition that explores the private and public worlds of Iranian women who grew up after the 1979 revolution, and significant places from the artist's childhood.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24.5 x 18 x 1,5 cm., 72 pp., 48 color ills., bilingual texts: English / Japanese

'Shirley BAKER' presents a uniquely female portrayal of life from the 1950s to 2000. Edited by Lou Stoppard it features better known photographs from Manchester, Salford & Blackpool combined with previously unseen material from UK, France, Italy & Japan.

The opulent photo volume 'Desert of Pharan. Unofficial stories behind the mass expansion of Mecca' by Ahmed MATER offers a unique access to this site and the associated social and religious rituals as well as the planned architectural urban development.

'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

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 20,5 x 23 x 3,5 cm., 416 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

This photo volume 'The Moth' by Jem SOUTHAM has its origins in a black-and-white photograph taken in Cornwall in 1983. From this moment, the book unfolds like a succession of memories, only briefly interrupted by a sublime moment of the rural environment.

Photo volume 'Leviathan' by Morgan ASHCOM deals about a community founded in 1995 by nonconformists in southeast Ohio and tells of the utopia of an independent life in freedom parallel to the materialistic outside world and the confrontation with nature.

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.

What in other families' guest room was called the 'Africa room' by the SCHÖNHARTINGs. In the lavishly designed book 'Das Erbe', the Ostkreuz photographer embarks on an associative journey, a personal dialogue with private, social colonial responsibility.

This volume that finishes Alejandro CARTAGENA's 'Santa Barbara' photo book project is still drawing an uncertain future. From the beginning, his pictures channeled the fear of fire and the flames that charred scars leave behind. And what's next?