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'Cette Montagne. C'est moi' is a 'real Revier 'book about a coal mining area that stretches from France to Belgium and Germany to Poland. Dutch photographer Witho WORMS documented the heaps, photobook designer Hans GREMMEN congenially staged the pictures.

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.

Out-of-print photo volume 'Redheaded Peckerwood' by American photographer Christian PATTERSON, which unerringly walks the fine line between fiction and nonfiction, is a disturbingly beautiful narrative about unfathomable violence and its place on the land

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.

Facsimile. pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), ca. 20 x 25 x 1 cm., 32 pp., b/w ills., Ltd. to 250 copies with 2 different silk-screened covers (= 500 copies in total!)

'Pantomime' by Daido MORIYAMA features the more or less complete series of his pictures of fetuses, stored in formalin, photographed at a maternity hospital in Kanagawa. This was his first own project after three years’ work as an assistant to Eikoh HOSOE

The out-of-print volume 'Yangon Fashion 1979'by Lukas BIRK brings to light photographs from the 1970s from Myanmar, when dictatorship ruled there. The emerging portrait photography became important for the development of the cultural identity of the youth

'I Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine' by Pacifico SILANO works with printed ephemera of gay culture. He comments on loss, longing and melancholy. The leporello consists of sequences that can be read as a coherent collage or as a sequence of individual images.

Limited edition photo book 'Bike Kill' shows life in a Brooklyn bike club. The French Julie GLASSBERG spent three years documenting the world of the Black Label Bike Club. The title refers to an annual celebration of bike chopping, friendship and anarchy.

The volume 'Picture of My Life' by Junpei UEDA is the result of workshop in Tokyo, where he created 21 copies. This edition is as close as possible to the original edition, but in a larger print run of 500 copies to make it available to a larger audience.

Laia ABRIL has been working on projects dealing with the so-called 'world epidemic of eating disorders' since 2010. The volume 'The Epilogue' tells the story of the Robinson family and the consequences of the loss of their 26-year-old daughter to bulimia.

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.

In out-of-print photo volume 'A Criminal Investigation', Yukichi WATABE documents investigations into a gruesome murder. The images unfold in the style of 'film noir' and involve the viewer. Image by image, the mystery engulfs the one who has to solve it.

In photo volume 'Red String' by Yoshikatsu FUJI, the thread that still connects the family even after the separation is taken up again. Designed as a double volume, it reassembles collected family images and thus reveals the lineage that was predetermined

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

The out-of-print photo publication 'Umbra' by Viviane SASSEN delves into the world of shadows. A seductive and deceptive darkness that lies in every human soul, like a silent black lake with a surface as flat as a mirror that can only be broken.

Reissue HC (no dust jacket, as issued) with ONE signed C-Print (20 x 16 cm.), 28,5 x 23,5 x 1,5 cm., color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 350 numbered copies

For his out-of-print photographic volume 'Ficciones', Chinese photo artist Yanchu SUN uses snapshots of family celebrations and the like taken in China in the 1970s or 1980s. He uses collages or drawings to destroy or perpetuate the stories in the photos.

As there is a wall clock in almost every household, Matjaz TANCIC titled his out-of-print volume, which oscillates between the future and the past, 'Timekeepers'. Conceived as an old photo album, the 3D images inside show Chinese and their home interiors.

The self-published artist's book 'Mono no aware' by Belgian photographer Anton KUSTERS is based on a thought rather than a story. This Japanese term describes the awareness of the passing moments of life. The book is designed as an object.

Re-edit, pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 30 x 1 cm., 32 pp., 42 b/w ills., no text, Ltd. to 350 copies

The out-of-print photo publication 'Stilled' by British photo artist Edward DIMSDALE shares something with the Haiku, which often presents three elements: something permanent, something ephemeral, and what happens in the moment when they come together.

Boxed, french binded pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 16,5 x 24 x 1 cm., 80 pp., b/w ills. in four-color printing, text language: English, Ltd. to 500 copies

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 19,5 x 27,5 x 1 cm. 56 pp., color ills., + print (18 x 27 cm.) + silkscreen (73 x 45 cm.). Ltd. to 15 copies

Out-of-print photo volume '9 Gates of No Return' by Agata GRZYBOWSKA presents nine people who, for different reasons and life choices, decided to give up their lives in the city and settle in the forests of the Bieszczady Mountains in southeastern Poland.

'Mundo de Papel' by Thomas DEMAND, explores the relationship between representation and 'real' events. It shows the sophisticated mechanics of paper in the form of pop-ups, each recreates a cityscape. A separate volume contains the text by Vargas Llosa.

In this 8th volume of a photo book series with screen-printed canvas covers, Daido MORIYAMA's 'Tiles in Aizuwakamatsu' the Japanese photographer takes as its subject the flood of roundish tiles that decorated the toilet of his hotel room in Aizuwakamatsu.

Open binded HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 16,5 x 24 x 2,5 cm., bilingual: English / Japanese, Ltd. to 500 numbered copies

4 slipcased pbs., 21,5 x 16,5 x 3 cm., 240 pp., color & b/w ills., text language. English

'Plastic Love', the fifth volume in the series of hand-bound books with screen-printed canvas covers, contains black & white and as well color photos of mannequins, which are one of the favorite motifs of the Japanese master photographer Daido MORIYAMA.

Daido MORIYAMA's photo book 'Kanban' is the direct successor to 'KURA chan' in the series of hand-bound volumes with screen-printed envelopes. It contains photographs of billboards that can be found in large numbers on the streets of his favorite cities.

This four-volume photo book set, 'Erde, Feuer, Wind, Wasser' by Damian HEINISCH, explores the cultural & collective heritage of Central Europe through his own family history. In addition to the photographs, the set includes bilingually reproduced texts.

The SIGNED photo volume set 'The Citadel' by Mame-Diarra NIANG is the story of an inner journey: the volumes 'Metropolis', 'At the Wall' and 'Sahel Gris' show a personal, analytical relationship with place, without city names or geographical coordinates.

'Am I exploiting the people in my pictures? Is it moral to work as a war photographer? Why are we attracted to images of other's misery? Am I producing war pornography?' In 'War Porn' Christoph BANGERT dares to experiment with turning off self-censorship.

In the out-of-print 'Gathered Leaves' box contains long unavailable Alec SOTH titles 'Sleeping by the Mississippi', 'Niagara', 'Broken Manual' & 'Songbook' as miniature volumes. In addition, 28 color prints with the most famous images are also a part.

'Miyako Isiuchi. 1976-2005' features panels from 'Yokosuka Story', 'Apartment', 'Endless Night', '1.9.4.7', '1906 to the Skin', and 'Mother's', double-sided on thick accordion-folded paper. The text in English is by Machiel Botman.

Cristina DE MIDDEL questions street photography as well as the language and truthfulness of photography itself. In the shimmering streets of New York City, she playfully works with visual tropes to illuminate the surreal quality of space in the city.

Pb., 19 x 30 cm., 192 pp., color & b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 700 copies

The out-of-print photo volume 'Incoming' by Richard MOSSE deals with migration. It captures the haunting nature of the same-named film, combining stills from the entire sequence to present the harsh and compelling narrative in a complete fade-out layout.

Cloth bound HC (no dustjacket, as issued), 18 x 26 x 2,5 cm., 192 pp. with differently sized inserts, b/w & color ills., text language: English

'KURA chan' by Japanese master photograher Daido MORIYAMA is the sixth volume in a series of hand-bound volumes with screen-printed canvas covers. The revised edition contains photos from the 'Provoke' era as well as work that has not yet been published.

The photo volume 'Coming and Going' by Jim GOLDBERG tells a wider story of the universal shape of our lives through their loves & losses, comings & goings, and the ways we come to understand them - A significant contribution to contemporary bookmaking.

Collector's edition, covers are unique as they are handmade by the artist using original, recycled corriboard election posters, 22,5 x 28 cm., 56 pp., double sided photograhs in color, text language. English, Ltd. to 100 numbered copies

'Cidade de Pedra' by Antoine D'AGATA is the most comprehensive document about a time when he spent time in Cracolandia, the crack neighborhoods of São Paulo & Salvador - doubtless the roughest areas of Brazil. An unfinished diary of fragile interactions.

This catalog volume of the work of Swedish artist duo Klara KÄLLSTRÖM & Thobias FÄLDT between 2011 and 2021 invites us to critically consider the prevailing narratives about today's world and how photography is used in the creation of these narratives.

Photo volume set 'In Sardegna' shows the further development in the work of the Italian photographer Guido GUIDI. Created about 40 years apart on two trips through Sardinia, you can also see the historical and geographical changes on the remote island.

Reproduced on super glossy paper, the color photographs in the out-of-print volume 'Karma' by Spanish photographer Óscar MONZÓN show details of cars of nocturnal drivers in Madrid. The photo volume won the Paris Photobook Award in 2013.

After graduating from ICP, photographer Ni LIANG turned to the familiar and overlooked. He put aside his large format camera, picked up his iPhone 4, and focused on documenting his hometown lake, Lake Tai. 'Memory of the Lake' comes in accordion format.

'White Noise' by Takehiko NAKAFUJI, focuses on Japan's capital. The photos mix genres and styles: b/w street photography as well as almost psychedelically colorful architectural shots. It reflects the experience of Tokyo in endless labyrinthine structures

Artist book 'Crime Scenes' by Helmut GIERSIEFEN deals with the typology of hunting high seats. The motifs were made on a handmade black and white film of traditional Japanese paper (Washi), reproduced in square format and glued individually into the book.

In the photo volume 'Death Landscapes', the Polish photographer Hubert HUMKA focuses on landscapes that are shaped by their history - contaminated landscapes. They are idyllic and at the same time contain the stigma of the events that they quietly testify

The photo book 'Internal Notebook' by Miki HASEGAWA attempts to visualize invisible suffering and trauma of abused children from the perspective of a possible child abuser. It consists of portraits and materials that keep memories of their childhood alive

2nd print run, HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 32 x 2 x 24.5 cm. (9¾ x 12½ inch.), 232 pp. (28 double gatefolds), b/w ills., text language: English

The winner of the Book Award at Arles 2023, the photographic debut volume 'Witch Hunt Vol.1: the Banished of Balsapuerto' by Christo GEOGHEGAN is an investigation into the murder of a number of sorcerers in the Peruvian Amazon and the theories behind it.

The book 'Hayal & Hakitat' by Cemre YESIL shows the hands of Turkish prisoners from early 20th century Turkey and are from the photo albums of Abdul Hamid II, the 34th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. It consists of two parts that can be viewed side by side.

29 cards in a box, 15,5 x 21 x 1 cm., Ltd. to 100 copies

In banking circles, 'PIGS' means the states Portugal, Italy, Greece & Spain. For his book, photographer Carlos SPOTTORNO took on the design of the manager's magazine 'The Economist' and integrated his own recordings in order to unite prejudice and reality

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.

The photographic volume 'Looking for the Mountain' by Japanese photographer Kyoko KAWANO is about a search. The color photographs in it tell of both details and great sights on her treks through the mountains. It comes published with an accordion binding.

Pb. with plastic dust jacket, paper & plastic pages, 23 x 20 x 1,5 cm., 84 pp., b/w ills., bilingual text: Ukrainian / English, Ltd. to 100 copies

The werewolf, about which the nifty photo book 'Lobismuller' by Laia ABRIL is about, was a woman who lived in the 19th century. lived in Spain. The story of Spain's most enigmatic and bloodthirsty serial killer is reconstructed from a female perspective.

'Tito' by Friso KEURIS and designed by Teun van der HEJDEN, deals with the self-image of the then Yugoslav President Tito, using photos of the preserved, shielded summer residence. The inside part establishes a connection to the later committed war crimes

In her book 'Dear Japanese', Miyuki OKUYAMA documents from a personal perspective, recording compatriots abroad. It consists of portraits, places and landscapes containing associative Japanese elements which often feel displaced within the environment.

Self published photo volume 'Provisional Life' by Icelandic photographer Rannveig EINARSDOTTIR is the result of a project about refugees living in German refugee homes. It comes as a arge format leporello with a (rather hidden) German/English text pages.

The leporello photo book 'Prosopagnosia' by Joan FONTCUBERTA & Pilar Rosado shows portraits from the 1930s, which serve as the basis of the project. On the back are images produced with artificial intelligence - as a wonderful sequence of failed attempts.

This set, 'Short Cut', by Finnish photographers Aapo HUHTA, Akseli VALMUNEN & Filippo ZAMBON - contains three subjective takes on the idea of home and its meaning. Each book is printed on a different paper, with a different technique and silkscreen covers

Linen bound HC (with acetate dust jacket), 31 x 24 x 2 cm., 72 pp., color ills., text language: English

'Assignment No. 2 'reproduces an essay written by prison inmate Michael Nelson using theatre photographs by Hiroshi SUGIMOTO & Richard MISRACH. It was written for the Visual Concerns in Photography class under the direction of Doug Dertinger & Nigel Poor.

Leporello bound HC with acetate dust jacket, 12 x 16 x 2,5 cm., 20 b/w ills., no text

The self-published volume 'Woodward' by Christian KASNERS deals with one of the five major avenues in Detroit. Through the sequence of images, the changing social and economic conditions of the largest U.S. city on the US-Canada border, are conveyed.

The out-of-print photo book 'Keiko' by World Press photo awarded photographer Tomasz GUDZOWATY documents the life of ship scrappers in Chittagong, Bangladesh, where 30 to 40 percent of all 700 ocean-going vessels decommissioned each year are cannibalized.

2nd print run, pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 24,5 x 30 cm., 46 pp., b/w ills., bilingual text: English / Lithuanian

On the shortlist for Arles Author Book Award 2021. With the photo volume 'Family Stranger', Dutch photographer Wiosna van BON shows the different ways families whose relative had to go to prison for a committed crime deal with the situation.

Published in newspaper format, '40 Jahre laif. 40 Positionen dokumentarischer Fotografie' is both an exhibit and a catalog of the exhibition of the same name, which celebrates the anniversary of the German photographers agency from Cologne.

The photo book 'A les 8 al Bar Eusebi' pays tribute to the Eixample district in Barcelona and its people. Salvi DANÉS describes the atmosphere of a glorious time, surrounded by rust and mistrust, through gestures, glances and skilfully chosen details.

The photo volume 'War Primer 2' by Adam BROOMBERG & Oliver CHANARAIN is the first English-language version of Bertolt Brecht's remarkable 1955 book 'Kriegsfibel' (War Primer). Today, in 'Fake News' times, it explores the power of images to create history.

In his self-published debut 'Saluti da Pinetamare' Salvatore SANTORO deals with the economic stagnation of his homeland. He documented ruined buildings along the coast between Naples & Caserta, which he juxtaposes with the postcard idyll of his childhood.

Photo book 'Season of Admin' by Silja YVETTE deals with the discomfort towards any socially organized and managed relationship with nature & things. In addition to large-format tableaux, the artist's book consists of a rich selection of different papers.

pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 18 x 22 x 1,5 cm., 88 pp., approx. 60 b/w (+1 colored) ills., short bilingual text: Ukrainian / English

The self published photographic volume 'Exit Ghost' by German photographer Kai BORNHÖFT is a well editied artist book with black-and-white photographs between hard book cover form industrial building production. It deals about the Arabian city Dubai.

Based on a pocket edition of the Gospel of Matthew published in 1930, Javier VIVER recreates an illustrated Bible and uses photographs of the Spanish Civil War and the reorganization of archive images to investigate the desecration of religious models.

Open spined HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 32 x 2 cm., 172 pp., color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 750 copies

The volumes ‘The Path to Freedom' tell Ukraine's historical path of a struggle for freedom. They portray the important events from the 1st attempts at a revolution through its photographic language and look at photography's development during this period.

Cased pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 20,5 x 30,5 cm., 48 pp., 46 b/w ills., Ltd. to 300 copies

For his self-published volume 'Am Platz ein Baum', designed as a fanfold, Björn ALLEMANN photographed for over two years at the same square (Paradeplatz) in Zurich. It is an idiosyncratic publication in which the sequence of images must be 'worked out'.

Graphic novel 'The Fault Line' by Spaniards SPOTTORNO and Abril across the border between Austria and Italy, North Tyrol and South Tyrol as a leporello as well as a report in word and picture moves at the interface of journalism, literature and photo art.

Newspaper format, 29 x 38 x 0,6 cm., 16 pp., color ills., English, Ltd to 50 copies

'Labour book. 2014-2015' by Ukrainian photographer Kirill GOLVCHENKO is to be understood as a criticism of the economic situation in his home country. Against the background of the original document of his father, he shows the true situation of pensioners

Unbound Pb in printed plastic bag (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 30 x 1 cm., 64 pp., +1 post card (with back side informations about designer and publisher), 21 small b/w ills., no text

Leporello, 11 × 13,5 x 1,5 cm., 17 post cards on one printed sheet, English, Ltd. to 800 copies

In her out-of-print volume 'LAND', Dutch photographer Laura van SEVEREN expands the concept of landscape photography to include abstraction; In addition, their work includes an industrial-economic-critical aspect. This makes the work a relevant photo book

The skin doesn't lie: it is a person's map. Like the paper in this artist's book: it changes, creases or becomes thin and transparent. Strictly limited, various papers-containing, elaborately designed band 'body maps' of Margaret LANSINK was made by hand.

Out-of-print photo book set 'Nocturnes' explores six different photographic journeys - by Tiane Doan na CHAMPASSAK, Gert JOCHEMS, Olivier PIN-FAT, Daisuke YOKOTA, Aaron McELROY and Esther VONPLON - into ‘the night’. Different papers for each photo essay.

Loose-leaf publication in a metallic gold bag, 30,5 x 38 x 1 cm., 40 pp., color ills.,

Self-produced maquette 'Suits. London, Tokyo, New York 2007-2008 vs. Facts & Fiction 1929-2008' by Katja STUKE focuses on one single theme, suits and how they are worn. Limited to 150 copies.

The self-published photo volume 'Chapitre 2 - Claudine. A story about family, hoarding, love and loneliness' by Ariane TOUSSAINT is about great-aunt Claudine, a hoarder, old and frail. Life & home depend on the delicate balance between love and loneliness

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 ...

Leporello book, 18 x 24 x 2 cm. (7,5 m. Länge), 40 pp., 38 ills., 300 gr., bilingual: English / French, Ltd. to 300 copies

In 'Book Manifest' Irma BOOM presents her vision of the nature, meaning nad relevance of the book. Based on more than 350 of her books, she shares her knowledge gained from intensive research and discusses context and relationship to the traditional book.