Italy

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)

'A New Map of Italy' by Guido GUIDI focuses on spontaneous suburban architecture in order to draw a complex and layered portrait. Picture by picture the illusions of a 'Bella Italia' give way to the other, more precarious, more realistic face of Italy.

Out-of-print double photo volume on the work of German photographer Axel HÜTTE accompanied his exhibitions 'Night and Day', with works created between 1995 and 2017, and 'Frühwerk', which focused on his early work with photos taken between 1978 and 1995.

The out-of-print photo volume 'Carlo Mollino: Polaroids' contains a selection of Polaroids from the 1960s and 1970s. These are eroticized images of women, but the subject is not sex. The images were composed and staged to conquer nature with artificiality

HC with dust jacket, 21 x 23 x 2 cm., 207 pp., 96 b/w ills., text language: English

Pb. with plastic dust jacket, 19,5 x 24 x 1,5 cm., 96 pp., color ills., 460 gr., bilingual text: Italian / English

'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.

SIGNED COPY. Out of print from the publisher, the biographical volume 'Zwischen den Zeiten. Rhapsody in Schwarzweiß' with over 200 b/w photographs from the 1950s to the 1980s represents the personal balance of the work of the photographer Dirk ALVERMANN.

In his photo book 'Italian Holidays', Claude NORI succeeds masterfully in capturing that mixture of Mediterranean lifestyle & carefree holiday spirit, inspired by his travels and short trips along the Italian coastline with Luigi GHIRRI in the late 1970's

Out-of-print Photo volume 'Dovere di Cronaca. The Duty to Report' by Letizia BATTAGLIA shows what happened in Sicily in the late 1970s to the early 1980s: a war that the Italian photographer, together with Franco Zecchin, captured without heroic ambitions

In his out-of-print photo volume 'Andante', Alex MAJOLI explores the human soul and the most obscure elements of society. The Magnum photographer explores the theatricality of everyday life, where the boundaries between reality and fiction become blurred.

Gebundene Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 17,5 x 24,5 x 2 cm., 142 S., S/W-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

'Natural Habitats', the successor to 'Landscape with Figures', comprises 70 color photographs and contains 120 miniature images that create visual connections between color, composition and time. Compared with first volume it shows a different perspective

The out-of-print photographic volume 'Double Game' was the first major publication in English by the prominent French artist Sophie CALLE and is still her best-selling title today. It is a double game between her work and the fiction of Paul Auster.

'Short Stories' contains hand-incorporated color photos by Italian photographer Massimo VITALI in one volume. After many discussions with staff and curators who know his work very well, the choice fell on 12 photographs that best describe his work.

Out-of-print leporello photo volume 'Teatro Del Tempo' by Joseph KOUDELKA, shows twenty-five photographs taken by in Rome between 1999 and 2003. Atmospheric architectural and landscape photographs that point to the cultural heritage of contemporary Rome.

Out-of-print book 'Signs' is about Nino MIGLIORI, who is credited with a profound change in Italian post-war photography. The images - mostly in b/w - testify to the versatility, creativity & innovation that have characterized his work from the beginning.

Out-of-print photo book 'Florence' by Abe KOGAN capture the beauty of the city in vivid portraits of modernity, juxtaposed with ancient relics. Impressive photos show bustling Florentine streets as well as parks, streets & buildings in atmospheric moments

'Works from the 1970s' accompanied an exhibition focused on the most creative period of Luigi GHIRRI. It shows the external and internal world, the relationship between reality and metaphysical duality, and the distance between reality and representation.

For the photo book 'Forcella', the photographers CAIMI & PICCINNI examined the oldest and smallest city district of Naples, Forcella. The black and white photos show life in the area that has been forgotten by the state and ruled by poverty & the Camorra.

After the terrible earthquake in Emilia Romagna in late 2012, Swedish Anders PETERSEN was asked to create a narrative about vulnerability as well as capture the spirit that holds these areas together. 'To belong' has become a poignant photographic volume.

Gebunden, mit Schutzumschlag, 25 x 29 x 2,5 cm., 287 S., duotone S/W-Abb., bilingual: Italienisch / Deutsch

Photo book 'In Veneto' contains a selection of hitherto unpublished works that Guido GUIDI took between 1984 and 1989. The visited places in provinces of Treviso, Vicenza, Padua & Venice, bearing testimony to the process of change of rural area in Italy.

After the city of Naples, Valentina PICCINNI & Jean-Marc CAIMI are now exploring their hometown, Rome. They looked for their own vision and created an idiosyncratic, mysterious & abysmal b/w portrait that is reminiscent of films by Visconti and Fellini.

HC with dust jacket,

The selection in out-of-print volume 'Rome' by Anders PETERSEN ranges from the 1980s to 2012. With his uniquely personal approach, the Swedish photographer captures the soul of the Italian capital and its inhabitants while reflecting the city's evolution.

'Entering a New World' is the third of Massimo VITALI's published investigations into the masses. After 'Landscape with Figures' and 'Natural Habitats', it now shows color images of people who consciously & unconsciously interact with their surroundings.

In photo volume 'Rome After Rome' by Joel STERNFELD, which includes images from its predecessor, 'Campagna Romana,' (1992) as well as numerous unpublished images, the photographer explores who modern Romans are and their relationship to ancient splendor.

With 'Landscape with Figures' Massimo VITALI is expanding the scope of his investigation of beaches and discos to include ski resorts and swimming pools from all over the world. The color photographs focus on the relationship between man and landscape.

In his out-of-print Leporello photo volume 'Roma, Città di Mezzo' South Africa photographer Guy TILLIM searches for the city in the middle, the light in the middle. His appeal lies in the strong tension of his search for scale in the city.

'Francesca Woodman: The Artist's Books' brings together all pages of her artist books in one book. The books convey her sophisticated relationship to narrative & sequence and offer a new understanding of the breadth of her engagement with the book format.

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 out-of-print volume 'A Maverick Eye. The Street Photography of John Deakin' contains b/w photographs taken on the streets of London, Paris and Rome in the 1950s and 1960s. They reveal a far broader spectrum than that for which he was previously known.

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.

'Cinque Viaggi. 1990-98' by Guido GUIDI contains photographs from Mailland as well as from the surrounding area. They reveal the layers of social and architectural history between which everyday life unfolds. Essays worth reading complete the photo volume

Out-of-print book 'Eine Reise nach Sardinien. Fotografien 1927' brings together a representative selection from the simple collection of 30 black and white photographs by the Cologne photographer and important pioneer of modern photography, August SANDER.

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.

Out-of-print volume 'Sanctuary' by Gregory CREWDSON is set in the Italian film town of Cinecittà, where masterpieces by Frederico Fellini & Roberto Rossellini were once made. For his atmospheric black-and-white shots, he worked mainly with natural light.

The catalog volume 'Reversing the Eye. Arte povera and Beyond 1960-1975' takes a fresh look at the Arte Povera movement, rarely associated with photography & film. The artistic movement is placed in the social and political context of the time in Italy.

In 'Italia in Miniatura', images by Luigi GHIRRI show scale models of Italy's most important natural & architectural landmarks, placed in surreal proximity to one another in a theme park. The photos themselves reflect the processes of their representation

The images shown in this volume, 'Puglia. Tra Albe e Tramonti', reveal relationship of Luigi GHIRRI with the Puglia region. Mostly little known and unpublished, they capture textures of urban life and delight with visual coincidences and tactile details.

Pb. with dust jacket, 24,5 x 19 x 1 cm., 80 pp., color ills., text language: English

The book 'Glitter Blues' by Lorenzo CASTORE deals with transvestites in Catania, Sicily. This black & white and color series shows urban motifs as well as interiors and portraits. Two essays in English close the book, which is designed by Aneta KOWALCZYK.

'Hidden Islam' by Nicoló DEGIORGIS shows Muslim places of prayer in Northern Italy. First architectural documentation until the interiors are 'discovered'. Important in connection with '9/11' and the consequences for the Christian-Muslim relationship.

The out-of-print photo and text volume 'Fotoreportagen 1956-1965' on the work of Dirk ALVERMANN contains in addition to the black and white photographs an excellent article on his photo books penned by the photo book connoisseur Thomas Wiegand.

'An Attic Full of Trains' contains a selection of 8000 previously unpublished pictures by the Italian photographer Alberto di LENARDO. The color photos from the 1960s to 80s complement your Luigi GHIRRI or Guido GUIDI collection perfectly.

'Venedig' (Venice) is a city portrait by prominent photographers: Martin PARR, PELLEGRIN, PINKHASSOV, POWER and VOIT - four MAGNUM members and one Thomas Ruff student. The photos of Venice, its waters & its people allow us to look into the heart of a myth

For 'Give me your Image' renowned Dutch photographer Bertien van MANEN traveled through Europe to document family photos and collect traces of war & oppression, of happiness & sadness. The result: a century of history in encounters of eyes, minds, hearts.

'Colazione sull’ Erba' by Luigi GHIRRI is the result of a project made between 1972-74 on the outskirts of Modena. His focus was the juncture of nature and artifice in the man-made environment. This early work is a signpost to directions of his later work

With his out-of-print classic photographic volume 'Big Nudes', Helmut NEWTON got to the heart of his aesthetic program. The series of black and white photographs taken between 1979 and 1981 heralded a change of style in the photographer's work at the time

The images in 'Di sguincio' by Guido GUIDI represent experimental dialogues between him and his 35mm camera. Antidocuments & anachronistic records comment ironically on photography's claim to truth showing his preoccupation with the medium's possibilities

Loose sheets in pb. with PVC transparent dust jacket, 30 x 22 x 3 cm., 176 pp., 90 color ills. (4-color process, Offset LE-UV technology), no text, only details in English, Ltd. to 500 copies

The out-of-print volume accompanying the 2013 exhibition at Museum Kunstpalast offers an overview of 70 works by Candida HÖFER, created exclusively in Düsseldorf over the course of 40 years. It represents the beginning but also shows the work around 2013.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 30 x 24 cm., 80 pp., 29 duotone ills., text language: English

This selection of 94 photographs in 'Tra l'altro. 1976-81', taken with 35mm cameras, stand for the transition from GUIDI's visual thinking and the progressive shift to color photography, which he began in the early 1980s with the large format 8x10 camera.

'The Italian Photobook 1931-1941' by Giorgio Grillo traces the short, intense history of (photo)graphic modernism in Italy - as a medium between autonomous visual research and a 'functional' use in the often overlapping areas of advertising & propaganda.

The catalog volume contains photographs by Vera LUTTER that she took with a camera obscura. These capture more than a single moment, but an entire period of time, thus questioning what is conventionally understood as the documentary value of photography.

The out-of-print book 'Pictures From Rome' by Anthony HERNANDEZ is not dedicated to the icons of the city of the Italian capitol. Instead, he examines unofficial monuments made up of the distressed architectural elements and debris in abandoned buildings.

'Geschlossene Gesellschaften' by Tomas van HOUTRYVE, illustrates the difference between promising communist theory and lived practice. For this purpose, he traveled to countries where the communist party remained in power after the end of the Cold War.

HC (without dust jacket, as issued), 28 x 24 x 1,5 cm., 112 pp., color ills., bilingual: Italian / English, Ltd. to 1,000 copies

In this self-published photo book 'Where Does The White Go', Italian photographer Piergiorgio CASOTTI pays tribute to the silence of the mountains with a series of images of ski villages and their surroundings, abandoned during the warm season.

The book 'Verso Nord' is the result of a collaboration between Guido GUIDI & Gerry JOHANSSON during a campaign in Castelfranco. The former focused on the historic city center with his large format camera and the latter on the suburbs in his medium format.

'Sonata' by Aaron SCHUMAN is inspired by Goethe's Italian Journey (1786-1788). The photographer invites us to explore an Italy shaped as much by the spirit as by the world, and imbued with the harmony and dissonance of its cultural and historical heritage

Using the Dolomite mountains as an example, Marina CANEVE asks the viewers in her volume 'Are They Rocks or Clouds?' to consider the risks people take in an effort to live comfortably while exploring the limits of how they interact with the natural world.

Brutalist architecture & concrete fascinate Sue BARR (professor of photography, London). With her large format camera, the British woman traversed all of Italy from the Alps to Naples and photographed the previously largely ignored motorway architecture.

The volume 'Vele' by Tobias ZIELONY is based on his animation film about the building complex 'Le Vele di Scampia', a symbol of the Camorra’s power in the Naples region and a key centre of European drug trafficking with an selection of 287 single images.

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 30 x 24 x 2 cm., 136 pp., 67 color ills +1 pictogram, bilingual texts: English / Italian

HC, 24 x 29,5 cm., 104 pp., 80 color ills., text language: English

'Take Me to Live with You' by Sonia LENZI is a declaration of love to Italy and its people. She visited elderly people who have transmitted cultural, political as well as moral values in their lives, in order to preserve these for future generations.

The out-of-print volume 'Paul Strand at Work. Toward a Deeper Understanding' presents a selection of b/w images taken between 1943 and 1953 in France, Italy and New England. In these series, he explore the connection between people and the natural world.

The out-of-print photographic book 'Paul Strand: The World on my Doorstep' contains, in addition to his best pictures from his late years - 1950 to 9176 - an intimate biographical essay, as well as an essay by Ute Eskildsen on his portraits & landscapes.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 17,5 x 24 x 2 cm., 128 pp., 61 b/w ills., 560 gr., English

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.

For his work about farmers in Emiglia Romagna NERI was awarded the first August-Sander-Prize for portrait photography. A 'real' photo book now follows the only paperback catalog volume as a bound edition - excellent printed in the Alteburger Druckerei!

'Life and Work' about Andrei TARKOVSKY brings together film stills, Polaroids & documentary photos for each of his films, writings and private photos. A tribute to a great visionary who thought in poetic, often disturbing images of almost biblical force.

HC (without dj, as issued), 31 x 24,5 cm., 80 pp., 34 color ills.,

Linen bound HC with tipped in image (no dust jacket, as issued), 16,5 x 24 cm., 144 pp., 62 color ills. & 5 info graphics, text language: English

The German-language photographic volume 'Bibliotheken' (Libraries) by Candida HÖFER contains photographs of famous library rooms in Europe and the USA. The color photographs are accompanied by an essay by the Italian writer and philosopher Umberto Eco.

HC (without dj, as issued), 15,5 x 21,5 pp., color ills., bilingual text: Italian / English, Ltd. to 750 copies

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 18 x 24 cm., 96 pp., 55 color ills., English

The photo book 'Napoli Nord. Case Rom 'explores the Roma camps on the northern outskirts of the Italian city of Naples. But with his portrayal, Vincenzo PAGLIUCA undermines our prejudices and offers us an insight into a world that is often misunderstood.

Published in 2012, 'Kodachrome' by prominent Italian photographer Luigi GHIRRI is a facsimile edition of his 1978 photobook debut, a manifesto for photography and a milestone in a remarkable body of work about preserving our ability to see.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 29,5 x 2 cm., 72 pp., color ills., text language: English

'Father - Photographer' shows images by Henry FRANK - Alps & lakes in Switzerland, views of Venice, Pisa & Florence, and depictions of his family & friends. Designed by Robert FRANK, it reveals his father to be both a talented photographer and a traveller

SC (no dust jacket, as issued), 12 x 23,5 cm., 202 pp., English, Ltd. to 600 copies

HC (swiss binding, no dust jacket, as issued), 17,5 x 23,5 cm., 64 pp., b/w ills., 450 gr., details in Swedish / English, Ltd. to 500 copies

With reportages from Albania, Italy, Poland, Spain & UK, Dirk ALVERMANN reminds in 'Streiflichter 1956-65' of the richness and diversity of European culture and history. Like fairy tales from ancient times, the b/w images tell of Europe's political roots.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 17,5 x 20,5 cm., 44 pp., b/w ills., Swedish / English / German / Italian, Ltd. to 600 copies

This out-of-print photo volume, 'Decreazione' by Josef KOUDELKA, designed as a leporello, accompanied the exhibition of nine large-format black and white panorama photographs that were exhibited in the Vatican pavilion during the 2013 Biennale.

Self-published volume 'Do You Sea?' by Selen BOTTO deals about unvisible waste on beaches. It contains over 50 photomontages, the Italian photographer/artist by covering areas of colored beach photographs with plastic pieces and photographing them again.

The out-of-print volume 'Standpunkt' shows the life & work of Werner BISCHOF from a new perspective: with his own words as well as previously unpublished photos, drawings, letters & diary entries, he tells of his life story, photographic credo and travels

Italian photographer Fausto GIACCONE reached Cavallino Treporti at summer afternoon, and in the uncertainty of the day coming to an end, he was guided by the light. One of the first shots became the cover of the photo book 'Volit di Cavallino Treporti'.

This self published volume, 'Twentysix Ceramic Fountains' by French photographer Franck LANDRON, shows 26 b/w photographs of urinals from all over the world in the style of the cult book 'Twentysix Gasoline Stations' by American (photo) artist Ed RUSCHA.

In the book 'Verlassene Ort' (Abandoned Places) various photographers document the beautiful and at the same time eerie atmosphere of places where decay has set in and nature has returned. The history & present of these places are explained in short texts

The volume 'Theorea' by Axel HÜTTE contains works from 1994 to 1996, showing industrial areas on the outskirts of the city, company premises in the green and Tuscan cultural landscape, seen through the concrete pillars of a utility building - no people.

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.