Nature photography

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 Lee FRIEDLANDER Photobook Library, contains 28 by and with contribution by this photographer.

Handmade HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 1,000 pp.,

The out-of-print photo book 'As Dust Alights' by Vincent DELBROUCK represents part #1 of The Himalayan Project. He created this artist book out of various installations, subjectively addressing the city of Kathmandu as well as the nature of the Himalayas.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued BUT in a bag), 24 x 32 x 1 cm. (9,4x12,6"), 40 pp., 10 color ills., English. +PRINT (approx. 22 x 28 cm.) Ltd. to 50 numbered 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

The photographs in out-of-print, large-formated 'New York Arbor' by Mitch EPSTEIN document the importance of trees to urban life in NYC, as well as their complex relationship with the residents. The superb printing makes viewing a breathtaking experience.

The 'Hiroshi Sugimoto Collection' includes the five volumes from 2014 to 2019. Adopting different conceptual approaches and astounding aesthetic expedients, these series investigate his obsession though the photographic medium: the 'fossilization of time'

Slipcased HC with dust jacket, 25 x 38 x 2 cm. (10,5 x 15 in.), 36 pp., 24 four-color b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 350 copies

The photo volume 'Altered Ocean' by Mandy BARKER contains works created over the past ten years that address plastic pollution in the world's oceans. Numerous reproductions from sketchbooks offer a glimpse into the thought processes during the project.

Out-of-print book 'A Field Guide to Snow and Ice' by Paula McCARTNEY contains 48 b/w & color plates printed with UV inks on uncoated paper. Leporello binding with multiple panel widths and stiff front & back covers. The spine is printed on synthetic paper

Out-of-print 'The Tree of Life is Eternally Green' by photographers MARTÍNEZ & SÁEZ is intimate notebook about their journey through Romania and at the same time exploration of the integral connection of Romanians to nature in the seasons winter to summer

This expanded, revised edition of 'Los Angeles Spring' - one of Robert ADAMS' most influential series - shows what was left of those citrus groves, eucalyptus trees and palms that once flourished there in the 1970s and 1980s when he returned to L.A. Basin

'In Our Nature' by Takashi HOMMA, which has been out of print for a long time, differs from other works, which all show an urban environment in some form. These photographs here do not show pure nature as such, but rather what people understand by nature.

'Gstettn' is a piece of land that is waiting to be developed and has meanwhile been taken possession of by nature. With her photos in 'Gstettn', consisting of 8 booklets in a linen slipcase, Regina ANZENBERGER has documented this place in seven chapters.

'The River Winter' documents the subtle actors of change that change the landscape on the banks of the River Exe during the winter in 2010/11. The book is completed by an essay on how winter has been embedded in our cultural psyche since the last ice age.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 22 x 28 x 4 cm., 498 pp., full paged b/w & color ills., bilingual texts: Estonian / English

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 20,5 x 29,5 x 2,5 cm., 352 pp., 248 color ills., English / German

Many of the photographs in 'Dance' deal with nature and there are different sections dedicated to the same subject, such as fire or flowers. 'Dance' is printed in large format on paper with a slightly rough texture, which goes extremely well with work.

The photo book 'From the Missouri West' by Robert ADAMS, first published in 1980, marked a turning point in the history of landscape photography by deeming the majesty of the West worthy of unromantic viewing. Here as a significantly expanded new edition.

In his out-of-print photo volume 'Trails, Takashi HOMMA documents trails of deer hunting in the snow-covered mountains, following the trails of red blood in the white snow that lead up steep slopes and across a river. Each scene like an abstract painting.

The images in out-of-print debut book 'Another Language' by Mårten LANGE create a cryptic and heterogeneous index of nature with recurring forms, patterns & textures, whereby the clarity and simplicity of the images is juxtaposed with the enigmatic whole.

Magnum photographer Sebastião SALGADO traveled the Brazilian Amazon for six years and photographed the incomparable beauty of this unique region: the rainforest, the rivers, the mountains as well as the people living there - irreplaceable for mankind.

The volume 'Cyanotpes' presents for the first time in their entirety the album 'British Algae' by Anna ATKINS and 'Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns', showing her pioneering technique of photographically documenting botanical species around 1850.

HC with print (no dust jacket, as issued), 24,5 x 29,5 cm., 128 pp., 90 ills., text language: English

US photographer Edward WESTON kept a diary in which he recorded his struggle to understand himself, society and his art. 'The Daybooks of Edward Weston' were edited by Nancy Newhall in two volumes: one for his time in Mexico and one for Californian time.

In 'Natural Order', Edward BURTYNSKY captures a moment in spring 2020 when nature briefly caught its breath due to the corona lockdown. With his camera in his home, Gray County, Ontario, he documents the complexity, magic & resilience of the natural order

The out-of-print photographic volume 'Picture Summer on Kodak Film' by US-American photographer Jason FULFORD presents a dreamlike journey through a fictional place, where the sun as well as the shadows it casts play the main role in his playful narrative

The Canadian photographer Edward BURTYNSKY researched and photographed the oil industry and culture for the photo book 'Oil'. These images show how the world is made possible by this energy resource and the effects of industrial evolution.

Out-of-print 'Water' by Edward BURTYNSKY documents water management infrastructures in the USA as well as in China. His images show the flourishing that civilization has achieved through water, but also how we depend on this increasingly scarce resource.

'Ayu no Kaze', found in Japan's oldest volume of poetry, is a sailor's saying and roughly means 'wind of promise'. This photo book diary of longing and serenity alludes to intimate and at the same time universal changes in life.

German edition. Sebastião SALGADO has created a world of images that show nature, animals and indigenous peoples in intense beauty. The volume 'Genesis' is the result of an epic 8-year expedition to regions where the planet has remained untouched before.

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.

97 unique images made from the same photographic negative. A photo book about the oldest living organism known to man and a book about the instability of the photographic image and the enigmatic intertwinement of time, reality and perception.

The limited editon photographic volume 'After the Snowstorm' by Yasunori SAITO, produced in Japanese binding, shows white areas within individual plants rising from the snow. The pictures were taken in the northernmost part of Japan, in Hokkaido.

Set of 2 books, 1): Japanese fold binding with a magnetic white vinyl cover, tri-tone printed15,5 x 20,5 x 1 cm., 68 pp., 25 polaroid images on 68 pages, 2): Handmade layflat binded with ferrous metal cover, printed with UV inks on Lessebo uncoated paper,

With 'Piedmont', Josef KOUDELKA continues his exploration of the landscape. From the shores of Lake Maggiore to the mountain passes of the Alps, from agricultural valleys to the construction sites of Turin, from cement plants to the historical remains.

For 'Tree, Stone, Water', Gerry JOHANSSON captured the environment surrounding the Japanese, not the people. He took photographed rocks & mountain streams of the Nametoko Valley, deep inside forests teeming with the energy of life and the Seto inland Sea.

'Eternal U' by Hubert HUMKA - 3rd part of his book trilogy, together with 'Eden (2014) and 'Death Landscapes' (2018) - is about death and eternity. It's main axis are forest photographs (life), negatives (death) and embossed texts (traces we leave behind)

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 34 x 23 x 2 cm., 88 pp., 126 color ills., 950 gr., text language: English

Cloth bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 32 x 1,5 cm., 44 pp., 16 color ills., bilingual gtexts: Swedish / English, Ltd. to 250 numbered copies

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.

'Natur', a series of German landscapes created between 1987 and 1997, shows the imagery of Michael SCHMIDT. A complex interplay of light and dark from an abundance of silver and gray tones makes the subjective perception of the observer more difficult.

With 'Across the Ravaged Land' the trilogy by Nick BRANDT about the disappearance of animals in East Africa is ending. In addition to powerful animal portraits, people appear for the first time; essays summarize his odyssey that spanned more than a decade

by Florian Ebner (ed.), HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 25 x 30 x 3 cm., 278 S., reichhaltig illustriert, 1.700 gr., Deutsch-sprachig - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

Smyth-Sewn HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 10 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches., 64 pp., 31 b/w ills., English Inches 31 B+W Photographs 64 Pages + Cover Smyth-Sewn with Wrap Around Hardcover Zatara Press 2016 ISBN: 978-09903321-5-2 Trade Edition: 1000 Copies

Crescent City was once a place almost limitlessly rich in natural resources. In 'Redwood Saw' Richard ROTHMAN tries to document culture, people & landscape of this city in particular and the USA in general, the place serves as a model of a former boomtown

'Casa de Campo' is a photographic fable by Antonio M. XOUBANOVA rooted firmly in the realities of Madrid’s largest public park. He wandered the paths of this urban woodland examining the people, animals and objects he saw as if he was on uncommon ground.

The photo volume 'Roots & Bonds' - part of a trilogy - by Regina ANZENBERGER contains forest images, created in the thicket. An atmospheric, quiet and artist volume - shown by the selection of images, the book design as well as the choice of paper used.

'Sans moi' convinces above all as a book object, in that the sensual unison is always preserved in an excellent way. Even when Olaf UNVERZART's gaze descends from the sky to a desert landscape, the high quality of the photographs cushions the visual break

Cloth bound HC foil debossed front and spine, 13 x 18,5 cm., 256 pp., text language: English, Ltd. to 323 numbered copies, on oldmill archival papes

The catalog volume brings together the most important works by Jitka HANZLOVÁ as well as insightful texts, thus bridging the gap between works such as 'Rokotnik' & 'inhabitant' from the 1990s to their most recent, contemplative series, 'Vanitas' & 'Water'

In 'Rocks and Clouds', Mitch EPSTEIN investigates the meaning of time by photographing rocks. It examine ssociety’s complex relationship to nature, a theme he has explored in previous work, including his acclaimed tree pictures in 'New York Arbor' (2013).

'Cirren' by Angela SCHWANK contains photos showing the diversity of cirrus clouds and other high-altitude cloud forms and man-made changes in their appearance caused by air traffic. The negatives were taken over Vienna & surroundings and the Netherlands.

This volume 'Crimson Line' by the Australian photographer Trent PARKE is about his passion for the transformative powers of light, the ephemeral changing colors of dawn & dusk, the multitude or different reds that made him curious about the color crimson.

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.

English version. Sebastião SALGADO has created a world of images that show nature, animals and indigenous peoples in intense beauty. The volume 'Genesis' is the result of an epic 8-year expedition to regions where the planet has remained untouched before.

Brazilean photographer Sebastião SALGADO returned for 'Africa' to document the pride and beauty of this continent as part of the 'Genesis' project - series of landscapes, fauna, flora and human communities as an investigation into a still pristine nature.

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.

In 'Amazônia' Paul CUPIDO explores the ephemeral correspondences between body & earth. There is probably no place on earth more imbued with spirituality than the Amazon rainforest. With his camera, he enters into a dialogue with this mystical environment.

Linen bound HC (no dust jackte, as issued), 9 x 11,25 inch., 92 pp., 50 color ills., text langauge: English

The book 'Turning Back' by Robert ADAMS documents and observes the results of greed so unrestrained that they are indistinguishable from those of nihilism. It reflects what was lost, what is retained, and what we value as a people with a common history.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 45,5 x 34 x 1,5 cm., 56 pp., 19 color ills., text language: English

The book 'A Partial Eclipse' by Martin BOYCE brings together images of trees & foliage, ellipses, fractures & spider webs. Hundreds of photos were edited to create the form of a book that creates a sense of stillness & distance between viewer & photograph

Ansel ADAMS is one of the most important photographers of the 20th century. The book 'Yosemite and the Range of Light', which is also out of print in new editions, contains 116 b/w images, some of which are now considered classics of landscape photography

Lee FRIEDLANDER's out-of-print photo volume 'Stems' is not only a tender story of an artist's temporary struggle with physical limitations and pain, but also one of the more eloquent collections of black and white photographs on a narrow subject.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 25 x 27 x 1,5 cm., 55 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

'Salt Pans' by Edward BURTYNSKY explores industrial landscapes all over the world. The book consists of 31 aerial color photographs of the salt pans in the Little Rann of Kutch. These striking geometric images were created over 10 days from a helicopter.

Generations have visited Lookout Mountain west of Denver to gaze out over the city and surrounding countryside. For his photographic volume'On Lookout Mountain' Robert ADAMS compiles a selection of views taken in 1970 and 1984 - evoking hope and despair.

Two slipcased pb., 12,5 x 18 cm., b/w ills., bilingual text: Spanish / English

In their photo volume 'On Listening to Trees', ALBARRÁN CABRERA show their special relationship with trees. However, they are mainly concerned with exploring man's relationship with nature, for example by using the writings of the novelist Hermann Hesse.

After the discovery in 1979, the Serra Pelada awakened a longing for the legendary gold country 'El Dorado'. This book contains the complete portfolio in large format reproductions and museum quality, a foreword by Sebastião SALGADO and an essay by Riding

In this book, 'Schnee' (snow) photographer Peter MATHIS captures the essence of snow. These breathtaking duotone images transform a traditional alpine landscape into picturesque canvases that are alternately otherworldly, sensual, haunting and heavenly.

In this book, 'Snow', Austrian photographer Peter MATHIS captures the essence of snow. These breathtaking duotone images transform a traditional alpine landscape into picturesque canvases that are alternately otherworldly, sensual, haunting and heavenly.

'Where the World is Melting', is the first compilation by Ragnar AXELSSON himself of his 40-year life's work.It includes his highly acclaimed series 'Faces of the North', 'Glacier' and 'Last Days of the Arctic' as well as a previously unpublished series.

77 photographers in this compendium, 'Contemporary Korean Photography', observe the social and cultural changes in Korea from a personal perspective and capture them as portraits, land- or cityscapes, everyday scenes or digitally created places and times.

Gebundene Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 17 x 24 x 2,5 cm., 300 S., 20 Farb- u. 200 SW-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

The book 'Unter Wasser' is both a radical break and a consistent continuation of previous work by Hans-Christian SCHINK. The setting is biotopes in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: lakes, ditches and so-called 'Sölle', in which he worked with an underwater camera.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 30,5 x 2 cm., 240 pp., 184 color & 1 b/w ills., bilingual text: German / English

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.

The facsimile of 'Das Watt' by Alfred EHRHARDT - theme is the strip of sand between land and sea modeled by wind, storms and sun - faithfully adheres to the original of 1937. As trilingual new edit, it makes the classic accessible to a wide audience again

The atmospheric images in Michael LANGE's photo book 'Cold Mountain' combine the quiet majesty of mountain landscapes with fleeting moments of nature perception.
 How do we perceive what we see, and how do we find ways to express feelings in pictures?

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 30,5 cm., 284 pp., 128 color ills., bilingual texts: German / English

The out-of-print volume 'Das Gesicht er Landschaft. Rhein und Siebengebirge' contains landscape & plant photographs taken by August SANDER from the mid-1920s to the early 1940s. Two German-language essays provide the background to roundabout 70 b/w images

The out-of-print volume 'System' by Jens LIEBCHEN shows a magical winter wonderland, an untouched snowy landscape with beautifully grown trees. It seems a natural spectacle of perfect beauty - but it is not, the pictures were made in the middle of Tokyo.

The photographic volume 'Gone?' by Robert ADAMS begins with a walk in a suburban neighborhood. Within a few images the viewer has moved away from civilization and into the hills, where we discover streams and secluded places that feel relatively untouched

HC with dust jacket, 25 x 34,5 x 2 cm., 96 pp., b/w ills., trilingual text: German / Japanese / English

The signed photo volume 'You Are Here Now' by Eivind NATVIG emerged from an extended road trip during a period of self-imposed homelessness, when the Norwegian lived on stranger's couches throughout Norway creating a project riddled with juxtapositions.

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24,5 x 28,5 x 2 cm., 96 pp., color ills., English

With his book with analogue color photographs, 'Enter the Forest', Alexandre Miguel MAIA continues a tradition that sees the forest as a recurring theme in photography. The book was printed on certified recycled paper and produced entirely in Germany.

The volume 'Die 4 Jahreszeiten' (The 4 Seasons) by Swiss photographerJakob TUGGENER is a completely new version of the unique books he created in the 1940s on the themes of spring, summer, fall and winter. It is a reflection on human life and transience.

In this first detailed monograph, Karl Blossfeldt. 'Variationen', which is entirely dedicated to the reception of his photographic work, Karl BLOSSFELDT expert Ulrike Meyer Stump analyzes the reproductions and traces the paths of some plant motifs.

Out-of-print photo book 'Vier mal vier. Photographs from Bargfeld' contains a selection of color photographs that Arno SCHMIDT took in Bargfeld and the surrounding area until his death in 1979. They show a trained eye for structures, nuances and details.

The reissue of photo volume 'Cottonwoods' by Robert ADAMS was originally published in paperback by Smithsonian in 1994 as part of the 'Photographers at Work' series. For the now expanded edition, further recordings from the series at that time were taken.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24,5 x 29,5 cm., 128 pp., 90 b/w ills., text language: English

'Lake Erie' by Lynn WHITNEY capture a mood of diverse communities, changing landscapes as well as deeply rooted local history(s). Inspired by the work of Frank GOHLKE on the Erie Lake, her special eye for the unique, endangered landscape guides her.

Out-of-print book 'Broken Line' by Olaf Otto BECKER shows the beauty of untouched landscapes in a remote part of our earth. The photos refer to romantic landscape painting; at the same time they document the endangerment of glaciers in a warming climate.

The out-of-print book 'Bedu' by US-American photographer & filmmaker Jim MANGAN tells through 35 mm and instant photography a story about group of friends passes through an exploding curtain of dirt to find themselves in an inexplicable alternate reality.