Individual photographers Books
Schirmer Mosel Oktoberfest
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£14.94
Schirmer/Mosel Verlag GmbH Barbara Klem - Zeiten Bilder
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£40.80
Schirmer /Mosel Verlag Gm MontSaintMichel
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£62.40
Schirmer /Mosel Verlag Gm Lothar Baumgarten Land of the Spotted Eagle
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£37.35
Schirmer /Mosel Verlag Gm Karl Blossfeldt Photography in the Light of Art
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£86.25
Schirmer /Mosel Verlag Gm Living Working Surviving
£42.33
Taschen GmbH Lewis W. Hine. America at Work
Book SynopsisPhotographer, teacher, and sociologist Lewis W. Hine (1874–1940) shaped our consciousness of American working life in the early 20th century like no other. Combining his training as an educator with his humanist concerns, Hine was one of the earliest photographers to use the camera as a documentary tool, capturing in particular labor conditions, housing, and immigrants arriving on Ellis Island. His images, including those of children in cotton mills, factories, coal mines, and fields, became icons of photographic history that helped to transform labor laws in the United States. This book brings together a representative collection of Lewis W. Hine’s photography from all periods of his work. It spans his earliest forays into social-documentary work through to his more artistic and interpretative late photographs, including his phenomenal images of the construction of the Empire State Building and his symbiotic staging of human and machine as a comment on increasing industrialization. Alongside the near 350 photographs, the book includes an essay by the editor, introducing Hine’s life and pioneering work.Trade Review“Photography can light up darkness and expose ignorance.” * Lewis W. Hine *
£17.00
Taschen GmbH Sebastião Salgado. Arbeiter. Zur Archäologie des
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£60.00
Taschen GmbH Harry Benson. The Beatles
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£14.25
Christoph Merian Verlag Cabaret Bizarre
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£42.00
Steidl Publishers Robert Frank: New York to Nova Scotia
Book SynopsisNew York to Nova Scotia was originally published in 1986 to accompany a retrospective exhibition of the same name organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and has long been out of print. The chronology and personal spirit of Frank's complex career as a photographer and filmmaker are evoked with previously unpublished letters, pictures, reviews and essays as well as 18 photographs by Frank. Some of the letters are by Frank; others were written by photographers and contemporaries, such as W. Eugene Smith, Louis Faurer, Keith Smith, and Gotthard Schuh, and by legendary curators Hugh Edwards and Robert Delpire. Authors of the essays include Walker Evans, Jack Kerouac, Jonas Mekas, Allen Ginsberg and Robert Coles, as well as the exhibition curators, Philip Brookman and Anne W. Tucker. Other entries include Frank's proposal to the Guggenheim Foundation in 1954 that started his legendary journey across America, a letter from an Arkansas State policeman who arrested Frank during his trip to produce the photographs in The Americans, still images from Frank's films, and pictures of Frank throughout his career.
£24.00
Steidl Publishers Roni Horn: Index Cixous, Cix Pax
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£13.50
Steidl Publishers Joel Sternfeld: When It Changed
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£13.50
Steidl Publishers Robert Frank: Me and My Brother
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£27.20
Steidl Publishers Robert Frank: One Hour
Book SynopsisRobert Frank’s film One Hour is a single-take of Frank and actor Kevin O’Connor either walking or riding in the back of a mini-van through a few blocks of Manhattan’s Lower East side. Shot between 3:45 and 4:45 pm on 26 July, 1990 the film presents the curious experience of eavesdropping involuntarily on strangers. It appears to be a document of a journey but is also a kind of stream of consciousness retracing the same patterns and spaces. This book is a reprint of a little-known Frank publication first issued by Hanuman Books in 1992, a tiny book, comprising mainly a transcription of the dialogue heard but also two pages of credits: half a dozen production or crew workers and 27 actors. Unravelling the apparent documentary nature of the film, there is also an acknowledgement that the film has a script (by Frank and his assistant, Michal Rovner), that a conversation heard in a diner is written by Mika Moses, and that Peter Orlovsky’s lines (intercepted by Frank roughly halfway through the hour, in front of the Angelika Cinema on Houston Street) are “total improvisation”.
£9.50
Steidl Publishers David Bailey: Pictures that Mark Can Do
Book Synopsis“Mark is good natured. He finds the best in most things. To explain more would too much. These are just pictures that Mark can do.” David Bailey David Bailey may be a master of the medium but he also readily accepts that photography is technologically driven. The snapshot is a part of our visual culture many photographs have been taken millions of times, with just slight variations, as the identity of the people in a family portrait. Bailey also takes such snaps, images imbued with a sense of ease and freedom yet which in his hands carry much greater weight and significance. He believes these photographs appear so easy that even Mark, his assistant, could have made them – and so this quip became the title of this, his latest book. David Bailey, born in London in 1938, is one of the most successful photographers his generation. His numerous books include Trouble and Strife, Nudes, If We Shadows, The Lady Is a Tramp and David Bailey’s Rock ’n’ Roll Heroes. Steidl published Birth of the Cool, Chasing Rainbows, Locations, Bailey’s Democracy Havana.
£25.50
Steidl Publishers Roni Horn: Herdubreid at Home
Book SynopsisA new book by Roni Horn, Her∂ubrei∂ at Home is a collection of photographs of the landscape of home in Iceland. Her∂ubrei∂, Iceland’s much-loved mountain, and Stéfan V. Jónsson, who painted the mountain throughout his life, are at the center of this work. His paintings of Her∂ubrei∂ have found their way into the homes of Icelanders around the country making it the cultural and geologic leitmotiv and mascot of the island. Roni Horn was born in New York where she continues to live and work. Recent solo exhibitions of her work include the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Fundacao Serralves, Porto; Fotomuseum Winterthur and Centre Pompidou, Paris. Her recent publications, Dictionary of Water, This is Me, This is You, Cabinet of, If on a Winter’s Night…, Her, Her, Her, & Her, Wonderwater (Alice Offshore), Index Cixous (Cix Pax), Doubt Box (Book IX of To Place) have all been published by Steidl.
£11.70
Steidl Publishers Is that so Kid: Anjelica Huston David Bailey
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£29.75
Steidl Publishers Robert Frank: Pull My Daisy
Book SynopsisPull My Daisy is a 1959 short film that typifies the Beat Generation. Directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, Daisy was adapted by Jack Kerouac from the third act of a stage play he never finished titled Beat Generation. Kerouac also provided improvised narration. It starred Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Larry Rivers, Peter Orlovsky, David Amram, Richard Bellamy, Alice Neel, Sally Gross and Pablo Frank, Robert Frank’s then-infant son. Based on an incident in the life of Neal Cassady and his wife Carolyn, Daisy tells the story of a railway brakeman whose painter wife invites a respectable bishop over for dinner. However, the brakeman’s bohemian friends crash the party, with comic results. The title Pull My Daisy was taken from the poem of the same name written by Kerouac, Ginsberg and Neal Cassidy over the 1940s and 1950s. The poem features in the film as the lyric within the jazz composition at the film’s opening. The Beat philosophy emphasized spontaneity, and the film conveyed the quality of having been thrown together or even improvised. Pull My Daisy was accordingly praised for years as an improvisational masterpiece, until Leslie revealed in a 1968 article in the Village Voice that the film was actually carefully planned, rehearsed, and directed by him and Frank, who shot the film on a professionally lit studio set. This book interweaves a transcript of Kerouac’s narration from the film with film stills and also includes an introduction by Jerry Tallmer written in 1961.
£9.50
Steidl Publishers David Bailey: Eye
Book Synopsis“I treat the boy down at the post office like the president of Russia, and the president of Russia like the boy down at the post office.” (David Bailey) Eye presents a selection of Bailey’s photographs spanning from 1962 to 2008. Mostly black-and-white, some in color, they feature influential directors, artists, fashion designers and musicians, including Andy Warhol, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Yves Saint Laurent, John Huston and Ellsworth Kelly. Despite the broad cross-section of subjects and the different creative spheres they inhabit, Bailey approaches them all with the same, egalitarian attitude – each is as important, or unimportant, as the next. This approach, often expressed by Bailey’s lack of props and minimal lighting, enables the photographer to tease from his subjects traits which often absent from more formal portraits – the warm benevolence of I.M. Pei for example, the exuberance of John Galliano, or the brooding look of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Crowned with cover art by Damien Hirst, Bailey’s Eye reveals unexpected facets of the creative minds who have defined and in many cases continue to shape the culture in which we live.
£35.20
Steidl Publishers Arnold Odermatt: Off Duty
Book SynopsisThis is the new and revised edition of Arnold Odermatt’s acclaimed Off Duty, first published in 2010. Does any family not have family photos? Every other picture taken is a family photograph and most are glanced at quickly and just as quickly wiped from memory. In this sea of sameness, Arnold Odermatt’s family photos bear his signature style, standing out for their clarity and order and the detached demeanor of his subjects. Arnold Odermatt, police officer and photographer, achieved fame with his photographic journal of car accidents, Karambolage. His last book, On Duty, documented the small police corps with which he worked for many years, effectively advertising their skills and services. In this book, Off Duty, he shows life after the officer has parked his cruiser in the garage, turned off the scanner and hung his uniform in the closet. Showered and clad in fresh shirts and clean blouses, the photographer’s spouse, son and daughter wait in the living room or garden for their close-ups. Sometimes they wait patiently and at other times they are annoyed – not very different from the reactions of colleagues on duty, who also learned that a good photograph takes time. Odermatt created an impressive document of life within a small village, where the police officer offduty was not exactly private but civilian.
£43.20
Steidl Publishers Henry Frank: Father Photographer: 1890-1976
Book SynopsisRobert Frank’s father, Henry, was both the proprietor of a bicycle shop in Zurich, and a keen amateur photographer. Father – Photographer makes public for the first time a selection of Henry Frank’s photographs including landscapes, family portraits, still-lifes and cityscapes. When Robert Frank immigrated to the United States in 1947, a wooden box containing his father’s stereophotographs was one of the few objects he brought with him. In 2008 that box and the fragile photographic glass plates within it were hand-escorted to Steidl in Göttingen, where they were scanned in tri-tone in preparation for this book. Designed by Robert Frank, Father – Photographer reveals Henry Frank to be both a talented photographer and a keen traveller. His pictures include snow-capped Alps and lakes in Switzerland, views of Venice, Pisa and Florence, and depictions of his family and friends including the young Robert. Henry Frank also reveals a passion for modern means of transport in images of aeroplanes, ships, hot-air balloons, and a car fair at the Grand Palais in Paris. Father – Photographer is a revelation of the unknown photographer Henry Frank, a historical photographic document of the early twentieth century, as well as a new chapter in Robert Frank’s ongoing bookmaking.
£18.00
Steidl Publishers David Bailey: 8 Minutes: Hirst & Bailey
Book SynopsisThe premise of this book couldn’t be simpler: 130 photographs of Damien Hirst taken by David Bailey during a single shoot lasting eight minutes. Each pose is spontaneous and determined not by Bailey but by Hirst, who mocks the camera with his tongue poked out, mouth open wide and hands pulling at his cheeks. These photos are humble and unrehearsed, and so continue the sprit of Bailey’s Democracy in which Bailey photographed a cross-section of naked subjects, shunning issues of composition, lighting and digital manipulation. Renouncing text and even a title page, 8 Minutes resists formulaic over-designed coffee-table publications. Bailey’s roguish message: what you see is what you get. David Bailey, born in London in 1938, is one of the most successful photographers of his generation. By the 1960s his work, especially for Vogue, had already made him a cult figure. His numerous books include Trouble and Strife, Nudes, If We Shadows, The Lady Is a Tramp and David Bailey’s Rock ’n’ Roll Heroes. Steidl has published Birth of the Cool, Chasing Rainbows, Locations, Bailey’s Democracy, Havana, NY JS DB 62, Pictures That Mark Can Do and Is That So Kid.
£32.00
Steidl Publishers Klaus Staeck and Gerhard Steidl: Beuys Book
Book SynopsisBorn in 1938 in Pulsnitz near Dresden, Klaus Staeck is one of Germany's most prominent graphic artists. Renowned for his political posters, Stack received the Gustav Heinemann Citizen Award in 1996 and was president of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin from 2006 to 2015. Steidl has produced Staeck's posters throughout his career and published many of his books, including Ohne Auftrag (2000), Frohe Zukunft (2004), Pornografie (2005) and Sand fürs Getriebe (2018). Born in 1950 in Göttingen, Germany, Gerhard Steidl founded his publishing house and screen-printing workshop for graphic art and posters in 1968. Today Steidl publishes the largest worldwide program of contemporary photobooks and an ambitious German literature list. He furthermore conceives and curates international exhibitions including those of Robert Frank, Orhan Pamuk and Karl Lagerfeld. In 2020 Steidl received the Outstanding Contribution to Photography prize at the Sony World Photography Awards and the Gutenberg Prize from the International Gutenberg Society in Mainz.
£46.40
Steidl Publishers Koto Bolofo: Vroom! Vroom!
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£41.60
Steidl Publishers David Bailey: Delhi Dilemma
Book Synopsis“Pink is the navy blue of India.” Diana Vreeland How does one photograph Delhi without the results looking like clichéd, tourist-friendly images from the pages of National Geographic? How does a photographer of David Bailey’s standing portray India without seeming con descending? Bailey has been to India fifteen times, and in these photographs he avoids depicting the cultural and economic differences between East and West that can make photos of the country seem overly didactic. Instead, Bailey depicts the colours, textures and people that characterise Delhi – a magenta sari, an infant walking down a rust-coloured road, a bright blue plastic tarpaulin – and so creates a portrait of the city that is sensitive without being self-indulgent.
£52.50
Kehrer Verlag Bangkok - Call Waiting
Book SynopsisNocturnal images of Bangkok's last public phone booths and their colourful traces of urban life.
£28.90
Kehrer Verlag Pigeon Hill: Then + Now
Book SynopsisThe residents of a housing project in Indiana were re-photographed with a time gap up to thirty years.
£22.10
Kehrer Verlag Hertta Kiiski: I Was An Apple And I Got Peeled
Book SynopsisPoetic and witty play with and for the camera.
£25.50
Kehrer Verlag Camera In Motion: From Chur to Tirano
£36.00
Kehrer Verlag Wilma Hurskainen: The Woman Who Married A Horse
Book SynopsisDream-like horse stories, seemingly borrowed from girls' books and folklore.
£27.20
Kehrer Verlag Rudi: Discovering The Weissenstein Archive
Book SynopsisMany previously unpublished images from the archive of the renowned Israeli photographer Rudi Weissenstein.
£32.00
Kehrer Verlag Zisls
Book SynopsisWith this work book, Beate Gu tschow brings four series together for the first time
£29.75
Kehrer Verlag Beautiful Berlin Boys
Book SynopsisSahihi's nude portrait series of young gay men in Berlin is a call for tolerance and mutual respect
£25.50
Kehrer Verlag The Human Cost: Agrotoxins in Argentina
Book SynopsisThe devastating impact of 20 years of indiscriminate use of Monsanto agrochemicals in the rural northeast of Argentina.
£25.50
Kehrer Verlag Finding Bones
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£33.99
Kehrer Verlag Imperial County
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£32.30
Kehrer Verlag Here / Still / Now
Book SynopsisD'Amato's portraits give individual faces to the ongoing crisis in African-American communities.
£28.90
Kehrer Verlag Them
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£29.75
Kehrer Verlag Portraits Band / Volume I
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£51.20
Kehrer Verlag Venice Beach: The Last Days of a Bohemian
Book SynopsisA stunning photo documentary about the amazing but endangered culture of Venice Beach.
£29.75
Kehrer Verlag Serpent In The Wilderness
Book SynopsisA photographic exploration of yoga around the globe.
£25.50
Kehrer Verlag Mexico: Between Life And Death
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£27.20
Kehrer Verlag Dr. Paul Wolff & Tritschler: Light and Shadow -
Book SynopsisFirst comprehensive and historical and critical examination of the work of the German photographers Dr. Paul Wolff and Alfred Tritschler.
£54.40
Kehrer Verlag Walid Siti
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£36.00
JOVIS Verlag Klosterfrauen Frauenkloster: Eine künstlerische
Book Synopsis After the Schlehdorf monastery became too big for the aging Dominican sisters, they collectively decided to sell the building and move into a newly built extension. Artist Jutta Görlich, photographer Ulrike Myrzik, and cultural manager Ulrike Rose visited the Schlehdorf sisters and other female convents gripped by the process of change. In the book, they explore the present-day disappearance of these convents, photograph the transformations the institutions are undergoing, and carry out interviews with those who live there. The book not only reveals the paths that these shrinking communities chart when their dwellings become too large, but also what happens to the former monastery and the significance that spatial change can have for monastic coexistence. Without romanticizing its subject or focusing on monastic traditions, the book looks at contemporary ways of life in convents and the future of these centuries-old landmarks that continue to decisively shape our cultural landscape.
£25.20
JOVIS Verlag The Essence of Berlin-Tegel: Taking Stock of an
Book SynopsisTegel Airport, opened in 1974 in West Berlin, was not only finished under budget and on time but today also remains an impressive work of art. For their design of the terminal, the architects chose the figure of a large hexagon with edges of 120 metres. A sophisticated use of space created an 'airport of short distances', with as little as 28 metres between the doors of the cars and the aircraft. Peter Ortner's photographs capture his uniquely personal view of the airport complex - the details so familiar to anyone who has travelled through or waited inside Tegel. Text in English and German.
£18.05
Steidl Publishers Jitka Hanzlová: Cotton Rose
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£25.50
