Documentary photography

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

Cafe Lehmitz Photobook Libraries shall enable collectors as well as institutions to acquire out-of-print titles at a price that can be paid. This library, the Paul GRAHAM Photobook Library, contains currently 19 photo volumes - mainly signed copies.

Out-of-print five-books collection 'Collected Works' on Gordon PARKS is the most comprehensive publication on the most influential African-American photographer, who combined a documentary and artistic style with a profound commitment to social justice.

This collection shows five decades of the photoworks by Gordon PARKS - widely recognized as the most important & influential African-American photographer of the 20th century. He combined documention and art with a profound commitment to social justice.

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.

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.

Cloth bound (no dust jackets, as issued)

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.

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.

with photo books by Mark STEINMETZ, Anthony HERNANDEZ, Bevan DAVIES, Katy GRANNAN, Sage SOHIER & John HUMBLE, Sage SOHIER, Mark STEINMETZ

This Nazraeli 'NZ Library Set #4' consists of six signed hardcover photo volumes by Steve BANKS / Katy GRANNAN / Abelardo MORELL / Catherine OPIE / Mark STEINMETZ / Jack TEEMER, collected in a slipcase. All texts are in English, limited to 350 copies!

The NZ-Library Set #2 consists of six signed hardcover photo volumes from Robbert FLICK / Kazuo KITAI / Philip MELNICK / John SCHOTT / Toshio SHIBATA / Mark STEINMETZ. In an extra made slipcase, richly illustrated, texts in English, Ltd. to 350 copies!

This is the beginning set of the Nazraeli 'NZ Library' series, collected in a slipcase. Included are six signed photo volumes by Bevan DAVIES / John DIVOLA / Steve KAHN / Idris KHAN / Daidō MORIYAMA / John SCHOTT. Texts in English, limited to 350 copies!

Vorzugsausgabe mit sign. & num. Originalabzug (Aufl. 20 +2 hc) in gewebebezogener Grafikmappe. Buch: HC, 32,5 x 28,5 cm., 120 pp., 112 ills.(43 in color), German & English

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.

Out-of-print English reissue of 'The Decisive Moment' by Henri CARTIER-BRESSON as meticulous facsimile of the original. It comes with an additional booklet containing an essay on the history of the famous volume by Centre Pompidou curator Clément Chéroux.

Gebunden, mit Schutzumschlag, 24,5 x 28 x 4 cm., 352 S., mehr als 460 Abb., deutsch-sprachig - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

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.

For his out-of-print book 'Behind the Block', Tobias ZIELONY visited the peripheries of modern cities such as Halle, Marseille & Bristol to explore the youth culture there in 'subcultural melting pots' and special zones of urban civilization at eye level.

'An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar' by Taryn SIMON provides amazing insights into remote corners of the USA. With her pictures, she opens up unknown, even uncanny territories of a society whose self-image is based on being open & transparent.

This 5 volume project that present hundreds of outstanding ABBOTT images for the first time. These previously unknown images further clarified the range of her photographic activity beyond her 'Paris Portraits', 'Changing New York' & 'Documenting Science'

In 'Hong Kong Flora', Michael WOLF turns his attention to plants and flowers in the urban jungle of the Asian metropolis. Each leaf, each branch, each flower a visible sign of the power of nature and people´s single-mindedness, to customize their habitat.

Cloth bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 15,5 x 21 x 2 cm., 152 pp., color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 500 copies

18x linen bound HC with dust jackets (mostly), each book: 18,5 x 24 cm. (9,5 x 7 in.), with duotone b/w &/or color ills., text langiage: English

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.

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.

'Poppy. Trails of Afghan Heroin 'by Dutch Robert KNOTH and Antoinette de JONG, traces the heroin journey, which leads from Afghanistan via Central Asia, Russia and the Balkans to East Africa, Dubai and Western Europe and gets lost in the streets of London

'Ponte City' by Mikhael SUBOTZKY documents the history of Africa's tallest residential high-rise building using photos of the building, portraits of residents & texts in a book togehter with 17 booklets of found ephemera and archived advertising material.

Held back for 30 years, ambitious photo book 'Whatever You Say, Say Nothing' by Magnum photographer Gilles PERESS takes the language of documentary photography to the extreme and then asks the reader to pause and solve the riddle of meaning for themselves

The photo volume 'Wonderful Days' by Masahisa FUKASE contains about 30 b/w shots of Masahsa FUKASE's apartment with cats, interior and his wife Yoko. Without further information in the book, the date of the photos can be estimated between 1960s to 1980s.

The out of print, self-published and black & white photo book 'Wonderland. A Fairy Tale Of The Soviet Monolith 'by Jason ESKENAZI - is a photographic exploration that depicts both reality under the guise of a utopian USSR and the affirmation of hope.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 30 x 1,5 cm., 128 pp. ('+ special vanish layer'), text language: English, Ltd. to 600 copies

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

The out-of-print volume 'Bazan Cuba' by Italian photographer Ernesto BAZAN is a documentation of life on the isolated island ruled by Fidel Castro. The photographs were taken between 1992 and 2006. It is the first volume of a planned photo book trilogy.

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.

Archival boxed set of 21 pb.s , 24 x 32 cm., 1,046 pp., 551 ills., text language: English. Ltd. to 1,000 copies

Slipcased HC with dust jacket, 30 x 38 x 2 cm. (12 x 15 in.), 64 pp., 51 duotone b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 350 copies

The out-of-print monograph by Japanese photographer Yoshiko SEINO, 'The Sign of Life', contains photographs taken during 2000-2002 in many places in Japan. With the essay 'Short Circuit the Whole of Creation!' by Asako Imaeda in English.

Ringbinded carton, 19 x 24 cm., 68 pp., approx. 24 color ills., Ltd. to 100 copies, bilingual text: Spanish / English

Signed new edition. Paul GRAHAM's photo volume set 'A Shimmer of Possibility' is considered one of the defining photo books of the 21st century and was awarded the Paris Photo-Aperture Prize for the most important photo book of the last 15 years.

This out-of-print photo volume, 'Studio 54', brings together a collection of photographs by renowned photographer, Tod PAPAGEORGE, taken in the late 1970s. They are a filled with all the decadency, vibrancy and glamour of New York’s most infamous club.

This photo book contains the famous photo series, which is one of the classics of German industrial photography. As one of the most important representatives of 'fotoform' group KEETMAN created, due to their detailed composition, almost abstract pictures.

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.

'Subway', the new edition of 1986s original. In 1980 Bruce DAVIDSON began photographing the New York subway system. At first in black and white, but he soon realized that color film was necessary to depict the intensity of this graffiti-covered landscape.

The out-of-print photo book, 'Harlem Family 1967' features approximately eighty b/w photographs of the Fontenelle family, whose lives Gordon PARKS documented as part of a 1968 'Life' magazine photo essay. A searing portrait of poverty in the United States

2nd pritn run, cloth covered HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 144 pp., approx. 200 color ills.,

The catalog volume 'Arbeit / Work' accompanied the major Chris KILLIP retrospective exhibition 'Arbeit/Work. Photographs from 1969-2005'. It included early portraits for the first time and also included the projects made in Ireland and on the Isle of Man

'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.

Slipcased HC, 30,5 x 38 cm., 64 pp., 58 dutone b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 350 numbered copies

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 21,5 x 34 x 1,5 cm., 168 pp., 62 ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 750 copies (+150 A.P.E.-copies)