Cologne

The 'Dirk-ALVERMANN-Photobook-Library' currently contains one copy each of nine publications, which are already out of print at their publishers. Some of the books are SIGNED, like 'Keine Experimente' (1961), 'Zwischen den Zeiten' (2006) & 'dacapo' (2008)

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

The collection 'Margret. Chronik einer Affäre' (Chronicle of an Affair) is an emphatically sober and at the same time obsessive, authentic documentation, shows the changes in a couple's dealings with each other and is a moral portrait of the late 1960s.

2nd reprint (2007). In his out-of-print photographic volume 'Unter Krahnenbäumen', first published in 1958, CHARGESHEIMER documents street life and the housing situation in the 1950s. The text in the book was written by Nobel Prize winner Heinrich Böll.

'Bauten' by Boris BECKER was published on the occasion of an exhibition at Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf. It consists of a cassette with 8 color prints and a leaflet with text by Katja Blomberg and an index with details. No. 80/100, autographed on the map.

The 1929 self-published publication '50 Years Leonhard Tietz 1879/1929' contains an illustrated description of the company history. At the end of the volume, Werner MANTZ is explicitly named as the author of the artistic black and white recordings.

by Matz / Vollmer. Huge presentation box, within ONE book (HC, 24 x 29 cm., 392 pp., 440 color ills., German) + ONE OF THREE Digital-PhotoPrints from analog negativ (29 x 42 cm.) - Ltd. to 250 copies! Greven Verlag, 2014.

Huge Presentation Box, within one book (24 x 29 cm., 384 pp., 425 color ills.) + ONE OF THREE numb. High-End-Digital-PhotoPrints, authorized by the Rheinischen Bildarchiv (29 x 42 cm.), Ltd. to 100 copies

The out-of-print photo book 'Fakes' by Boris BECKER shows objects with a secret: they contained smuggled goods or are products from brand piracy. Their curious stories often only flash up in the factual picture titles like: Bowling Ball Cocaine Costa Rica

The out-of-print photo volume 'Oldschool & Newschool. Two Views of Skateboard Photography' by Barbara WÜLLENWEBER and Alexander BASILE covers two periods in skateboard photography: 1989 and 2002 to 2007. The book includes one print from each of the series

Out-of-print 'Pegel Köln' by Wilhelm SCHÜRMANN deals with urban life (e.g. in Cologne) and the understanding of the city photo book. The title is also programmatic and stands for a level at which the well-worn genre of the city photo book can still work.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 22 x 30,5 cm., 200 pp., b/w ills., bilingual text: German / English, Ltd. to 300 copies

This out-of-print photo volume 'das nötig' by Colgne based Wilhelm SCHÜRMANN shows 1980s dreary everyday places in German cities (from the Aachen, Düsseldorf and Liège areas, many pictures from Cologne) as well as shots from the artist scene of that time.

Gebundene Ausgabe, 24 x 36x 3 cm., 200 Seiten, 153 Photographien, vierfarbig reproduziert nach Vintage Prints, und 165 Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

HC, 23.5 x 36.5 x 3 cm., 200 pp,, 153 photographs + 165 b/w ills., text language: English

'Fotografen sehen Köln' contains works by Cologne photographers such as August Sander, Werner Mantz, August Kreyenkamp, Karl Hugo Schmölz, Heinrich Ewertz a.o., which show the historical upheavals and the rapid development of the medium of photography.

The catalog 'Zeitgenossen' documents the art scene of the 1920s in the Rhineland around the portrait photographer August SANDER as a central figure. He spans the arc between artists of all disciplines as well as the two art metropolises Berlin and Cologne

German language book 'Cologne after the War' by Matz & Vollmer describes the eventful history of Cologne during the Bonn Republic. A rapid development in reconstruction and expansion, out of war-ruins to a cultural metropolis through photographer's eyes.