October 2024
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Sachlich Neu: Fotografien von August Sander, Albert Renger-Patzsch & Robert Häusser
Legendary photographs from the 1920s and 30s by August Sander (1876-1964) and Albert Renger-Patzsch (1897-1966), the main representatives of “New Objectivity” in photography, meet icons by Robert Häusser (1924-2013), a classic of the post-war period.
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Barbara Marstrand: Still Life of Teenagers
Centered around the teenage bedroom, the book offers a personal insight into contemporary Danish youth life. Marstrand’s snapshots capture aspects of everyday life that we often take for granted or perhaps even overlook. Interiors, technology and everyday clutter fill the rooms with information and stories about the lives that unfold within and around them.
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Karolina Spolniewski: Hotel of Eternal Light
Hotel of Eternal Light is a visual investigation of dictatorships and totalitarian systems in the recent history of Europe. Using an example of the abuse of power by the Stasi, the secret political police of the former communist GDR, the book focuses on the use of light as a form of control, torture and communication…
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Angeniet Berkers: Lebensborn – Birth Politics in the Third Reich
On December 12th 1935, a programme was initiated in Germany to provide the Third Reich with the new generation of leaders and future elite for their 1000-year empire: Lebensborn (Source of Life). All Germans were called upon to have more children, with the slogan “Give the Führer a child”.
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Lena Fritsch: Ravens & Red Lipstick Japanese Photography Since 1945
From the severity of post-war Realism to the diversity and technical ingenuity of the present, this volume traces the development of Japanese photography since 1945. Interleaved are new interviews with some of the most influential practitioners in photographic history, from Moriyama Daido to Araki Nobuyoshi and Kawauchi Rinko.
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Byron Smith: Testament ’22
Testament ’22 is Byron Smith’s powerful debut monograph documenting his 10,000-mile photographic odyssey through Ukraine’s first year under Russia’s unprovoked invasion.
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Joel Sternfeld: American Prospects
First published in 1987 to critical acclaim, the seminal American Prospects has been likened to Walker Evans’ American Photographs and Robert Frank’s The Americans in both its ability to visually summarize the zeitgeist of a decade and to influence the course of photography following its publication.
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Nadia Sablin: Years Like Water
Years Like Water is a decade-long look at a small Russian village, its inhabitants, ramshackle institutions, nature, and mythology. The series loosely follows the lives of four interconnected families, showing children grow up unsupervised in a magical wilderness, and adults struggle for survival in the same.
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Robert Adams: Los Angeles Spring
Having lived in Southern California during his university years, Robert Adams returned to photograph the Los Angeles Basin in the late 1970s and early 1980s, concentrating on what was left of the citrus groves, eucalyptus and palm trees that once flourished in the area. The pictures, while foreboding, testify to a verdancy against the odds.
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Adam Ferguson: Big Sky
Adam Ferguson began photographing Australia’s interior in 2013 in an attempt to dispel sentimental and outdated narratives around the ‘Outback’—a place central to the identity and development of modern day Australia.
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Walter Moser (Editor): Valie Export
Combining selections from her celebrated performance pieces as well as independent projects, Valie Export’s photography takes center stage in this unprecedented exploration that offers new insights into the career of an early radical feminist artist.
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Guido Guidi: Veramente
Veramente encompasses Italian photographer Guido Guidi’s entire oeuvre, bringing together excerpts of his series from 1959 to the present day to illuminate the distinctive photographic language he has forged over a 40-year career.
