Africa

In out-of-print photo volume 'Matriarchs', Austrian photographer Maria HAAS focuses on the investigation of cultures in which women have a special status. She opens these cultures to the viewer and captures their beauty and vitality in sensitive portraits

'Living Apart' by Magnum member Ian BERRY includes work from the 1960s for Drum magazine as well as key moments from the 1990s during the collapse of apartheid: the rise of Mandela, reconciliation, & the alarming escalation of urban problems and violence.

Actual print run, HC, 25 x 29 x 3,5 cm., 336 pp., text language: English

Pb. with dust jacket (as poster), 21 x 27,5 x 3 cm., 320 pp., 1800 gr., text language: English

HC with dust jacket, 27 x 25 cm., 263 pp., b/w ills., English

Dutch photographer Bastiaan WOUDT captured the local culture of Morocco with a monochrome look for this book. 'Bastiaan Woudt in Morocco' is the eighth part of a book series by the Van Vlissingen Art Foundation that supports talented Dutch photographers.

The photo book 'Hyena Men', first published in 2007, made the South African photographer Pieter HUGO known outside the photo book scene. There is something disturbing about the images of wandering fairmen who entertain people with their animals.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 20 x 27 cm., 72 pp., text language: English, Ltd. to 500 copies

'African Studies' by Edward BURTYNSKY is about the overexploitation of the planet in Africa. The series 'China in Africa' with interiors of newly built gigantic production facilities show the disturbing reality of the far-reaching depletion of resources.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21,5 x 31 x 1,5 cm., 112 pp., 50 color ills., bilingual text: English / fFench

The story is amusing, but only at first glance, because it is based on the fact that no one believes that Africa will ever reach the moon. Around fifty years later, Spanish photographer Cristina DE MIDDEL brought history back to light ...

HC (without dust jacket, as issued), 17 x 23,5 x 2 cm., 240 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24,5 x 28,5 x 1,5 cm., 120 pp., color ills., text language: English

The b/w photographs in 'It's too funky in here' dance like the photographed dancers, twinkle like the eyes of the portrayed youth. Malick SIDIBE is the catcher of joy. Omnipresent at decisive moments that really needed to be caught - the memory of Bamako.

HC with dust jacket, 18,5 x 24 x 2,5 cm. (9,5 x 7 in.), 190 pp., 120 duotone b/w ills., text language: English

HC, 24,5 x 19 cm., 96 pp. + 12 interview pp., 62 ills., Ltd. to 1,000 numb. copies, English

HC (without dust jacket, as issued), 25 x 31 cm., 96 pp., color ills., text language: English

Out-of-print volume 'In and Out of Fashion' by Viviane SASSEN presents the full range of her visual language: harsh contrasts in the play of light & shadow, bright colors & expressive poses - fashion photography as a work of art, designed by Sybren KUIPER

Bold and striking are the photography, the Dutch photo artist Viviane SASSEN in the photo volume 'Parasomnia'. Her subject in this monograph a sleep disorder that causes strange feelings and dreams. Both editions are out of print.

'Waiting' by Jason LARKIN is the result of an observation. This state of waiting is for him a visual echo of an intermediate state in which many inhabitants of South Africa find themselves. There is no reference to the purpose or the result of the waiting

'Congo Belge en Images' is the companion volume to Carl de KEYZER's own color photographs of present-day Congo. It features a selection of images of the Belgian colony from the Royal Museum of Central Africa, with shots from the time of King Leopold II.

Housed in a silk-screened slipcase & spiral bound (japanese style), 76 folded pp., 24 x 33 cm. (9,44 x 13 in.), risograph printed b/w ills., Ltd. to 400 signed copies

SC, 24 x 28 cm., 140 pp., b/w & color ills., text language: English

HC, 29 x 23 cm., 151 pp., English & French

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.

Boxed HC - Special Edition (different design) with print, 28,6 x 25,4 x 3 cm., 120 pp., color ills., textv language: English

The book combines the original story of the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola with the reality of a country suffering from the heavy burden of African stereotypes. MAGNUM photographer Cristina DE MIDDEL creates a gray area between documentation and fiction.

Handseewn HC (three books in one case with Wibalin cover), 18 x 15 cm., 190 pp., 180 color ills. on 120 gr. paper, 10 text pages in English, Ltd. to 500 signed & numbered copies

Character studies and social landscapes are the subject of Mikhael SUBOTZKY's debut photo volume 'Beaufort West', which deals with central issues of today's South African society - a social document and visual manifesto of South African art photography.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 30 x 24 x 2 cm., 96 pp., color ills., text language: English

The limited edition publication 'Rwanda 2004. Traces of a Genocide' shows older photographic works by Pieter HUGO. The book also includes an essay by investigative journalist Linda Melvern, in which she explains the situation in Rwanda in detail.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 20 x 30 cm., 144 pp., color ills., English

The out-of-print book 'First Color' by Magnum photographer Inge MORATH spans from her photographs from Spain (1954/55) to the pictures from Ireland and Romania in 1958 to her documentation of the Gaza Strip in 1960. It shows, her unique ability to compose

2nd print run, Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 16 x 20 x 0,5 cm., 36 pp., color ills., no text, Ltd. to 600 copies

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 32 x 29,5 x 1 cm., 36 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 17 x 24 x 2 cm., 144 pp., color ills., text language: English

HC with dust jacket, 23,5 x 26,5 x 2 cm., 136 pp., approx. 72 color ills., 12 pp. text language: English

Updated edition of the catalog which accompanied an exhibition of Don McCULLIN, including his work since the mid-1950s. A long career as a conflict photographer, social documentary practice, travel assignments and his recent engagement with landscape.

This volume presents the photographic work of the Spanish documentary photographer Cristina de MIDDEL, who became internationally known in 2012 for her self-published photo book 'The Afronauts' and is now a member of the Magnum photographers agency.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 25 x 30,5 x 2,5 cm., 216 pp.,color ills., text language: English

'Algeria' by Dirk ALVERMANN consists of political contemporary documents, quotes from French military sources, pamphlets, newspapers and magazines that once accompanied him. As facsimile, it was also part of the sought-after 'Protest Box' by Martin Parr.

In his photo book 'A Little Louder', Algerian photographer Abdo SHANAN interrogates and documents in his own way, the 'Hirak', the peaceful protest movement that has shaken Algeria since February 22, 2019 and that continues with vigor despite the pandemic

Photographs by Nina BERMAN, Peter BIALOBRZESKI, Guillaume BONN, Mikhael SUBOTZKY and many more

'Post script' by Laura EL-TANTAWY, designed by Sybren KUIPER in accordeon format, contains previously unpublished images & written reflections in which she takes the reader behind the images and into the thoughts and emotions that led to their creation.

The book title '1994' commemorates an important year in the history of South Africa and Rwanda - here Mandela's election as president, there genocide. In retrospect, Pieter HUGO processed the events of the year with portraits of children and young people.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 13 x 21 cm., 168 pp., 50 color ills., text language: English

In 'Intersections,' David GOLDBLATT explores the aftermath of apartheid in and outside Johannesburg. Made up entirely of color works, it reveals the contrasts that define South Africa while marking the beginning of an important new phase in his work.