Bildersturm

This volume presents photographs from Abbey Hepner’s decade-long examination of nuclear energy, the atomic bomb, and radioactive waste.

Abigail Heyman was an American photographer. Her book Growing Up Female became an important text for the feminist movement.

The publication presents a selection of some 150 works by 40 Chinese artists from the collection of the Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung.

Adam Ferguson began photographing Australia’s interior in 2013 in an attempt to dispel sentimental and outdated narratives around the ‘Outback’—a place central to the identity and development of modern day Australia.

This long-term project, by South African photographer Alice Mann, explores the unique sport of drum majorettes.

Over a period of two years, Tomlinson documented the traditional costumes and masks worn during festivals and celebrations on the islands of the Venetian lagoon, Sicily and Sardinia.

Andreas Herzau became known for his worldwide reportage work for German magazines and newspapers. His numerous projects also included pictures of New York before and after the September 11 attacks.

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”.

“Terra Salis” is a photographic exploration of the complex issue of potash mining in Heringen an der Werra, located in eastern Hesse.

Behind Glass is a series of portraits of primates made over the course of ten years in small zoos throughout Europe.

Anne Morgenstern (*1976 in Leipzig) studied photography in Munich and Zurich, where she lives and works.

Still up-to-date: Annette Messager’s photo series on the image of the body from 1972. It consists of 81 works of which she has made available 40 diptychs in their original formats as gelatin-silver prints.

In the decade between 1955 and 1965, Düsseldorf-based Horst H. Baumann was one of the most innovative and successful photographers of his generation. From a standing start, the self-taught photographer developed a visual language that was radically different from the trends and fashions of his time.

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.

How to Look Natural in Photos is a book about a totalitarian system which uses photography for its purposes.

Since the 1970s, Bertien van Manen has created intimate and poignant photographs of commonplace scenes.

Am I Not Light comprises a poem and photographs by Bob Farese, Jr. and is designed by Sybren Kuiper.

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.

Carol Jerrems (1949–1980) was born and grew up in suburban Melbourne and studied art and design under Paul Cox.

In 1976 Chas Gerretsen was hired by Francis Ford Coppola as the still photographer for his masterpiece Apocalypse Now.

The photographs that Chris Killip made in Northern England between 1973 and 1985 were first published by Secker & Warbur in 1988.

Christer Strömholm (1918–2002) was one of the most influential Scandinavian photographers and the recipient of the 1997 Hasselblad Award.

Cindy Sherman (American, b. 1954) is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential artists in contemporary art.

Both brutal and tender, the twist of a knee was made over four years in and around Makhanda in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

Hidden: Life with California’s Roma Families is the first photography book to feature Romani Americans.

Klara and the Bomb is a photographical and historical work that charts connecting threads between the invention of modern computers, the history of nuclear weapons and, in particular, the narratives of the women involved.

Novogen is a project focusing on the eponymous breed of chickens that was developed in order to use its eggs in the production of pharmaceutical products.

In January 1974, David Godlis, then a 22-year-old photo student, took a ten-day trip to Miami Beach, Florida.

Since the late 1950s, photographer David Hurn has taken photographs of people engaged in the act of reading. He had captured moments of repose and absorption in cafes and bars, at dog shows and railway stations, strip clubs, museums, the seaside, film sets, parks and streets. His forthcoming book brings together these images for the first time and is 40 years in the making.

This trove of recently discovered photographs offers an unprecedented opportunity to take a closer look at Idi Amin’s dictatorship and its impact on Ugandan history.

The period around 1980 was a phase of profound upheaval. A global arms race, rampant environmental destruction and rising unemployment fueled a general mood of doom, but also provided a boost to creativity.

Arbus’s reputation as one of the most important and original photographers of recent decades has been based primarily on her private work and powerful images of freaks and outcasts. Yet like most photographers of her time, she looked to magazine work as a means of earning a living and of gaining access to people and events otherwise hard to reach.

With Nini and Carry Hess, the focus is on two outstanding Jewish photographers from the Weimar Republic.

This book follows a journey of exploration and documentation of the violence against women and her compromise towards justice.

An undisputed masterwork among Japanese photobooks, Eikoh Hosoe and Tatsumi Hijikata’s Kamaitachi was originally released in 1969 as a limited edition of 1,000 copies. Hosoe, the renowned photographer, and Hijikata, the founder of ankoku butoh dance, had visited a farming village in northern Japan, where Hijikata improvised a performance inspired by the legend of a weasel-like demon named Kamaitachi.

While exploring the society he grew up in, Elias Holzknecht (AT) ended up in the village of Micheldorf in Upper Austria by chance. There he found beauty in the everyday: a small community of almost 6,000 people who sleep, eat, walk, and work, and for whom Micheldorf is the centre of their lives.

In Hofer’s photos of the street and (semi-)public spaces, people and architecture become symbols of a particular time and place. She immersed herself in New York society and captured these aspects of the everyday in images that invariably reflect the zeitgeist.

A photo-text book, The Ecology of Dreams is a compendium of Los Angeles’ psychological landscape.

This is Fazal Sheikh and Teju Cole’s acclaimed text–image vision of a compassionate global community.

In Italia O Italia, Federico Clavarino constructs a fictional Italy from photographs taken across the peninsula. The images in the book show the remains of the country’s monumental past weighing on the contemporary landscape, signalling an inertia and inability to move on from a glorious past.

This volume was issued for an exhibition of female photographers of the Weimar Republic.

Borderlands is a documentary essay shot along the US side of the border with Mexico between 2017 and 2019, at the height of the Trump era.

Acts of Appearance assumed its form within a village of Adivasi papier-mâché artists from the Kokna and Warli tribes in Palghar district. Further inland from Dahanu, it is one of the most impoverished districts in Maharashtra, India.

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.

This retrospective of the life’s work of the great photo enthusiast and publisher Hansgert Lambers shows images from seven decades that the artist took in Barcelona, Berlin, London, Ostrava, Paris and Prague.

As a co-founder of the photographers’ agency OSTKREUZ, Hauswald is one of the most important figures in German photography.

Harri Pälviranta is a Finnish photographic artist and researcher. At the core of his artistic curiosity are issues relating to violence and masculinity.

Herlinde Koelbl (born October 31, 1939) is a German photographer and documentary filmmaker. The German Living Room was her first big hit with the general public in 1980.

Issei Suda – My Japan is an introduction to his life’s work, from the 1960s until the publication of his final book in 2018.

With ATACAMA, Jamey Stillings again shares his distinctive aerial perspective to examine dramatic large-scale renewable energy projects, the visual dynamic of enormous mining operations and the stark beauty of the Atacama Desert.

This book presents Baudrillard´s photos together with his collected texts on the theory of photography.

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.

Afropean: A Journal gives an alternative interrail map of Europe, taking the reader to places like Cova Da Moura, the Cape Verdean shantytown on the outskirts of Lisbon with its own underground economy, and Rinkeby, the area of Stockholm that is eighty percent Muslim.

What is the state and who represents it? This is the main topic in Jörg Gläscher’s comprehensive visual investigation.

German photographer Ilse Bing (1899-1998) has secured her place as one of the major photographers of the 20th century. Her pioneering images during the inter-war era reveal a modern vision influenced by the impact of both the Bauhaus and Surrealism.

In 1985, Karen Marshall began photographing a group of teenagers in New York City.

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 code.

De Blauwer collects and recycles photographs from vintage magazines and papers. She calls herself a ‘photographer without a camera’; the cut of her scissors being comparable to clicking the shutter release, with which she determines what remains visible from the original image and what not.

Spanning three years (2020-2023), between the skin and sea emerges at a time of great collective upheaval. The hyper-local takes centre-stage; made among the artist’s immediate communities, tales of entanglement, relation, connection and intimacy unfold. Leaning into the shadows, the photographs trace networks of love, grief, kinship, shelter and repair.

Melody of light is a result of the artist’s six-week stay in Wroclaw – her moving freely among a variety of places and people, themes and contexts.

Photo Express: Tokyo is a facsimile of the legendary series of twelve booklets published by Keizo Kitajima in 1979.

Anderson-Staley’s tintype portrait work was awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and a Puffin Grant.

Restraint and Desire is the culmination of a lifelong creative partnership between husband and wife Ken Graves and Eva Lipman.

Larry Towell photographed the Old Colony Mennonites in rural Ontario and Mexico between 1990 and 1999. The resulting black and white photographs formed Towell’s landmark book, The Mennonites, first published in 2000.

Tunbjörk’s iconic 2001 photobook of corporate melancholy is re-published in a luxurious slipcased edition, alongside an exclusive, unreleased series.

In the capstone volume of his epic series The Human Clay, Lee Friedlander has created an ode to people who work. Drawn from his incomparable archive are photographs of individuals laboring on the street and on stage, as well as in the field, in factories and in fluorescent-lit offices.

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.

Depravity’s Rainbow dealts with the contradictory history of space exploration, and the way that militaristic aims have often been dressed in a cloak of peaceful civilian science.

Published on the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, this portraits recall what it was like to live in New York the following summer.

This publication accompanies the exhibition La saga des inventions, du masque à gaz à la machine à laver at Croisière Arles (1 July – 22 September 2019).

Carpe Diem gathers together two of Luo’s seminal series – Girls and Youth – alongside miscellaneous photographs shot throughout the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s.

Mao Ishikawa was born in 1953 in Ôgimi Village, in the northern part of Okinawa.

The first sightings of newly discovered work from Saul Leiter’s abundant archive of colour slides.

Since 2015 British documentary photographer Mark Neville has been documenting life in Ukraine.

In Quarta Persona is the first project realized by the duo Martin Errichiello & Filippo Menichetti.

Ward 81, photographed in 1976, was Mary Ellen Mark’s first independent long-term project. Mark and writer Karen Folger Jacobs set out to document the lives of the women in this locked ward at the Oregon State Hospital in Salem—the only one in the state.

Megan Doherty is a photographer currently based in Derry, Northern Ireland.

Michael Kerstgens is a professor of photography at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences.

In this unconventional, lyrical biography, Lesy traces Evans’s intimate, idiosyncratic relationships with men and women—the circle of friends who made Walker Evans who he was.

The Unposed (EoAT) is the first monograph by Danish artist Michala Paludan, it consists of 101 photos of robot “hands”. From 2021-24 Paludan visited many different sites of robotics located in Germany, Denmark, Japan, Korea, and the United States.

Michele Sibiloni is an Italian photographer. Nsenene Republic is his ongoing project about grasshopper hunting in Uganda.

This publication presents the photographic work of the first period (1968-1992) by Brazilian artist Miguel Rio Branco.

Mimi Plumb’s third book focuses on her many years living in San Francisco. The pictures in The Golden City were made between 1984 and 2020.

Sunshine Hotel assembles 175 photos made between 1969 and 2018—more than half previously unpublished.

The book combines photographic material and texts that revolve around the permanent in-between state that is inseparable from the notion of migration. What happens when you’re forced to leave something behind and start a new elsewhere?

The Banda Journal highlights the legacy of centuries-long colonization and exploitation in the remote Indonesian Banda Islands.

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.

This monograph puts together her editorial, commercial and personal work in one volume.

Naohiro Harada’s (b. 1982, Japanese) series is an attempt to explore the origin of the eccentricity of Japanese visual culture through the usage of traditional methods by composing a fictional documentary for the audienceless 2020 Olympics.

Luigi Ghirri: Viaggi is a beguiling new publication bringing together work from across Luigi Ghirri’s oeuvre focussing on the theme of the journey. King, Queen, Knave features a new series of photographs by Gregory Halpern made in and around his hometown of Buffalo, New York, over the course of twenty years.

Nhu Xuan Hua delved into the power of memories in a piece of work titled “Tropism, Consequences of a Displaced Memory.”

It is a first part of a global series portraying people and animals that have been impacted by environmental degradation.

Giri Giri is a game of representations on the images conveyed by Japan through different societal archetypes.

Five continents, three decades: with Walking Distance, Olaf Unverzart presents his interpretation of a travel diary.

Murmurings of the Skin is a photographic exploration of the human connection to the body. The starting point for the work was Olivia Arthur’s own pregnancy and the project developed to encompass series about physicality and sexuality, stability and robotics, touch, gesture and solitude.

Last Day in Lagos is a focused study on a singular African American photographer, through an archival encounter with her documentation of the landmark FESTAC’77 festival.

This is about falling from innocence into exile, a dark world of claustrophobic interiors, of low life bars and stained streets.

In this new editorial project, Gasparini involved two poets, Alejandro Sebastiani Verlezza and Francesco Tomada.

Días is a tonal collage of places and days by Spanish photographer Pia Riverola. Renowned for her evocative, hazy imagery, the delicately-sequenced Días uses motion, blur, and dappled light to create a sensory and synaesthetic experience, transporting you to a memory long-forgotten, plucked from time.

Flowers Drink the River spans the first two years of Pia’s gender transition, as she photographs her small community in rural Maine, and the beauty and terror of living as a trans woman in a small right-wing town.

Chernobyl by photographer Pierpaolo Mittica is a document of the communities who inhabit an area around the site of the nuclear reactor disaster of 1986.

I Am Warning You is a book-quadtych dedicated to three different border walls: American-Mexican, Hungarian-Serbian-Croatian and the Berlin Wall.

A significant theme in Hardtack is Fortune’s striking portraits of coming-of-age traditions. Inside, young bull-riders, praise dancers, and pageant queens inherit and gracefully embrace these forms of community ritual.

Ralph Gibson has carried on a lifelong love affair with France, passionately observing and recording the country through its most intimate details.

For Dame Gulizar and Other Love Stories, Rebecca Topakian’s starting point is the unique story of her Armenian family, who lived in Turkey before her grandfather emigrated to France. This story is the love of her great-grandparents – Garabed and Gulizar. The book includes her own pictures mixed with her family archives, establishing a link between past and present.

Irish artist Richard Mosse’s most ambitious work to date, Broken Spectre, is a powerful response to the devastating and ongoing impact of deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest. It employs a dazzling array of photographic techniques.

Driven by both national and personal anxiety about the current divisions in the US, photographer Richard Sharum embarked on a journey through the central ‘spine’ of America. He was in search of the unifying elements of contemporary American ‘national character’.

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.

Apiary uses a cinematic lens to uncover the dark underbelly of Lewes, a town in South East England.

Graubard’s intimate and striking colour approach to photography found a voice of its own when she packed up and embedded herself within Eastern Europe during the early nineties.

Named after the Hebrew term referring to the Holy Land, Ha Aretz is a reinterpretation of the biblical stories amidst a globalized world of alien­ation and conflict.

10×10 Photobooks’ latest project presents 100 historically significant photobooks by women, as selected by female photography experts.

This illustrated book celebrates Ruth Orkin’s life and work with an extensive overview of this exceptional artist’s oeuvre.

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.

Photographer Sam Wright became curious about Traveller communities after learning that his great grandmother had been forced to denounce her Irish Traveller heritage upon marriage. Over the course of two years he journeyed to eight fairs across the UK and Ireland to create a contemporary portrait of the resilient and vibrant Traveller and Romani Gypsy communities he encountered.

This is the seventh book in a series of titles about Furuya’s wife. In it, he revisits the first and final holidays they spent together before Christine took her own life.

This book presents an overview of the photographic oeuvre of Japanese mathematician and artist Shigeru Onishi .

In a career spanning more than four decades, Berlin-born Sibylle Bergemann created an extraordinary oeuvre ranging from fashion and portrait photographs to literary reportages and atmospheric series.

his catalog accompanies the first museum retrospective of the photography of influential German multimedia artist Polke.

Wuhan Radiography is a surprising series of black and white analog images taken by Belgian photographer Simon Vansteenwinckel.

American Surfaces is a collection of works by Stephen Shore (1947-), one of the leading photographers of the 20th century. The book is comprised of a chronological sequence of photographs of vernacular America taken in the early 1970s and styled as a photo-diary of Shore’s travels across America.

This series provides a catalogue of the Sloanes, New Romantic and pensioners who once roamed London’s streets.

In his project Circulation: Date, Place, Events Nakahira challenged himself to photograph his surroundings and in the same day exhibit the results for a duration of approximately one week.

Since 2010 Thomas Boivin has been making contemplative black and white photographs of his Parisian neighbourhood and the people who live there.

Over twelve years, Thomas Rousset has probed every corner of his family village to create a surrealistic yet tender docu­fiction of its inhabitants.

Tim Richmond composes an elegiac, sombre ode to the pressures on small-town England.

Timm Rautert (born in 1941 in Tuchola, then West Prussia) is considered one of Germany’s preeminent contemporary photographers.

Sophus Tromholt (1851–1896) was a teacher and northern lights researcher. Starman is the first book dedicated to his photographs.

“Citiscapes”, photographed by Wüst from 1979 to 1985, is considered as his most important body of work from that period.

Unpublished images by Ursula Schulz-Dornburg capturing the improvised structures of a radical playground built by children in 1960s Amsterdam.

The Afrikaans word “pophuis“ refers to a dollhouse game familiar to children. Vuyo Mabheka builds the Popihuise series based on this game, using cutouts from rare childhood photos of himself.

This book is the first photographic survey of the Rotterdam artist Wally Elenbaas (1912-2008) and his great love Esther (‘Es’) Hartog (1905-1988).

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.

This revised and expanded edition of Ewald’s now-rare book, first published in 1985, offers access to a different and broadened view of the rural south over the span of 35 years.

Between the year 849 and the present, Myanmar has had an astounding 22 capitals, while the seat of government has changed 39 times. Vast Land by Wolfgang Bellwinkel is a photographic study of the country‘s last three capitals: Mandalay (1857–1885), Yangon (1885–2005) and Naypyitaw (since 2005).

This is a selection of portraits, taken between 1988 to 2001, and chosen by Tillmans himself.

Xu Yong was one of the first photographers to focus on everyday life in modern China. He traces the history of the traditional residential district of Beijing, with its centuries-old buildings complete with rear courtyards and myriad narrow alleyways, the “Hutongs.”

Wernicke’s series is a touching portrait of two young women who have established profound relationships with animals. Rosina and Julie each independently save animals from certain death and create bonds of love and trust with them.

Malanka is Yelena Yemchuk‘s sixth photobook. The eponymous tradition is a pre-christian, heavily incantatory folklore ritual that takes place on January 14, the Old New Year in the Julian calendar. It is celebrated by ethnic Romanians in western Ukraine, and its origins are largerly unknown.

The publishing project brings together the author’s photographs, paintings and personal archive to bring out the essential elements of her wide-ranging and heterogeneous research.

Aisha is Yemeni Egyptian American photographer and filmmaker Yumna Al-Arashi’s first artist’s book. This powerful, delicate publication, inspired by Al-Arashi’s great-grandmother, Aisha, is an homage to the lineage of women that she descends from; women of the multidimensional and many-layered landscapes of the MENA region

Yutaka Takanashi’s Toshi-e (Towards the City) is a landmark two-volume set of books from one one of the founders of the avant-garde Japanese magazine Provoke.