Russia

Art historian Ian Jeffrey has sifted through WWII soldier albums and selected the most compelling photos to create a record of lives that have seen the unprecedented. Style & content of the photographs changed along with the collective mood after 1942.

The out-of-print catalog volume 'Soviet Photography of the 1920s and 1930s' shows the great creative wealth: photographers of Pictoialism and Soviet avant-garde developed in parallel with each other until Stalinist ideology gave a direction.

PB. (no dust jacket, as issued) 23 x 23 cm., 116 pp., color ills., English, Ltd. to 20 copies +5 AP

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 29 x 24 x 1,5 cm., 72 pp., color ills., text language: English

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 27 cm., 120 pp. (+8 pp. booklet), b/w ills., English

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issiued), 23,5 x 27,5 x 2,5 cm., 280 pp., b/w ills., English

In is photo volume 'Siberian Summer', Olaf Otto BECKER documents the inhospitable formations of earth and ice that tower like abstract sculptures above wet beaches in the permafrost zone, a group of researchers and the half-ruined port city of Tiksi.

The Anti-War book 'Kriegsfibel' (War primer) by Bertolt Brecht and Ruth Berlau processes press photos from the Second World War. Images of machines and gruesome scenes were given new captions, socialist-realist epigrams to give the scenes a primal meaning

Out-of-print 'Moments in History' focuses on those works Margaret BOURKE-WHITE made in the 1930s and 40s in Czechia, Germany, Italy, the Soviet Union as well as in the UK. It shows photographs and excerpts from letters as well as publications in magazines

The catalog on Sergey BRATKOV, titled 'Glory Days', contains images from 1997 to 2007- an idiosyncratic mix of reportage & staged photography. It places his work in the context of recent photographic art and the social environment in Russia and in Ukraine

'Kriegsfibel' (War Primer) by Bertolt Brecht is THE anti-war book. It was first published a year before his death and a few times reissued. This edition was published by his daughter, Barbara Brecht-Schall, in memory of book's creation in exile in Denmark

BROOMBERG & CHANARIN have constructed a taxonomy of portraits in contemporary Russia. Echoing August SANDER’s seminal work, 'Citizens of the 20th Century' they have made a series of portraits with a new developed technology: in low resolution & fragmented

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 17 x 22 x 2 cm., 234 pp., 130 color ills., bilingaul texts: Spanish / English

'Tolyatti' is a visual and scientific exploration of society and common spaces in post-Soviet cities. This is about Tolyatti, the largest planned industrial city in the Soviet Union and the most typical example of a mono-industrial city in today's Russia.

For her out-of-print book 'Sailboats and Swans', Michal CHELBIN portrayed prison inmates in Ukraine & Russia. The portraits oscillate between strangeness and reality. The title refers to the wallpaper that often adorns walls and hallways of these prisons.

'Ausgewählte Werke 1978-' by Sergej CHILIKOV shows Russian life of ordinary people in the countryside during the period of upheaval from the final phase of the Soviet Union to the post-communist present, far away from urban hustle & bustle and anonymity.

SC (no dust jacket, as issued), 16,5 x 21 cm., 160 pp., unpaginated, 120 color ills., French

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 17 x 24 x 2 cm., 208 pp., color ills., text language: English

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 22 x 24 cm., 72 pp., 30 color ills., multi-lingual text: German / Russian / English