Individual photographers Books
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 Robert Frank: Frank Films: The Film and Video
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£999.99
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 Joel Sternfeld: iDubai
Book SynopsisAs Paris and its shopping arcades were to the 19th Century, Dubai and its wondrous malls may be to the new millennium. The Baudelarian flâneur, is replaced by the phoneur, a wired wanderer who uses the cell phone to text and call and access the internet, all the while snapping digital images on the fly. If the arcades were representative sites of early capitalism, then perhaps the postmodern shopping playgrounds of Dubai are exemplars of advanced capitalism. With this in mind, when Joel Sternfeld visited these malls in 2008, he documented them with the consumer fetish object of the moment – the iPhone. In the process, he achieves a very particular unity of form and content; the object that encapsulates the spirit of an era is used to document that era. The ramifications of a profusion of mobile phone cameras around the globe are numerous. We have already witnessed this phenomenon becoming a platform for news construction with civilian journalism changing the documentation of events. In Dubai, Joel Sternfeld uses his iPhone camera to get past mass media images of the Emirate as Disney World on the Persian Gulf, and find a human component.
£999.99
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
Steidl Publishers Roni Horn: aka
Book Synopsis“The mutable version of identity is not an aberration... the fixed version is the aberration.” Roni Horn Comprising fifteen pairs of portraits collected from throughout a life... 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, Tate Modern, London, Musèe 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, Her, Her, Her, & Her, Wonderwater (Alice Offshore), Index Cixous, 2003 – 05, Weather Reports You, Vatnasafn/ Library of Water, Herdubreid at Home, Roni Horn aka Roni Horn have all been published by Steidl.
£999.99
Steidl Publishers Robert Frank: Pangnirtung
Book SynopsisIn August 1992 Robert Frank’s good friend and antique dealer Reginald Rankin invited Frank on a trip to Pangnirtung, a village of around 1,300 Inuit inhabitants in the Arctic Circle. This book is Frank’s documentation of the five-day sojourn. Curiously Frank depicts Pangnirtung void of its people: the still harbour, public housing, a convenience store, a telephone post. Sincere without being sentimental, the photos are shaped by a short text from Frank himself, “Prefabricated homes along the main road in Pangnirtung. At times a decorated window – reflections inside or outside. Stones – maybe the balance of a big sky above…” Robert Frank was born in Zurich, Switzerland in 1924 and immigrated to the United States in 1947. He is best known for his seminal book The Americans, first published in 1958, which gave rise to a distinct new form in the photo-book, and his experimental film Pull My Daisy, made in 1959. Frank’s other important projects include the books Black White and Things, 1952, and The Lines of My Hand, 1972, and the film Cocksucker Blues for the Rolling Stones, 1972. He divides his time between New York City and Nova Scotia, Canada.
£24.00
Steidl Publishers Massimo Vitali: Landscapes with Figures · Natural
Book SynopsisIn Steidl’s ongoing project to catalogue the life’s work of this Italian master of the photographic medium, this slipcased edition brings together the two volumes which encompass all Massimo Vitali’s images to create a collector’s edition. Volume I is the second edition of Landscape with Figures, the award winning book first published in 2004. Published in a marginally smaller format than the original, the production of this new edition utilises new scans to take advantage of the significant technical developments since the first edition was printed. Volume II is a copy of the first edition of the recently published Natural Habitats. The first 1,000 copies of this limited, slipcased edition includes a giant poster which maps the family tree of Vitali’s works, a visual geneology which is also the history of the artist’s work.
£93.75
Steidl Publishers Bernard Sabrier: Vanuatu
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£28.90
Steidl Publishers Mona Kuhn: Bordeaux Series
Book SynopsisIn a remote landscape near Bordeaux, Mona Kuhn owns a little house: simple, bare and even without electricity. Kuhn travels here each year to entertain family and friends as they drop by. Bordeaux Series contains portraits of these people dear to Kuhn made over the last four years, as well as landscape photographs. Kuhn photographs her subjects in the same room with a red fabric backdrop and a chair, so that the nudity of each sitter is the only indication of his or her idiosyncrasies. A sequel to Kuhn’s Native (2009), Bordeaux Series is a sensual exploration of the contemporary nude.
£40.00
Steidl Publishers Donavan Wylie: Outposts: Kandahar Province
Book SynopsisOutposts / Kandahar Province presents Donovan Wylie’s photographs of Forward Operating Bases constructed in the Kandahar Province of Afghanistan. From 2006 to 2011, Canada sent nearly 3,000 military personnel to Afghanistan in support of NATO’s International Security Assistance Force. Serving alongside infantry and artillery, military engineers designed a network of outposts throughout the province. Built on natural promontories with multiple lines of sight, these outposts formed a protective visual architecture. They were frequently positioned on defensive locations established during earlier conflicts and represent reincarnations of past histories under new powers. The resulting images are the latest phase in Wylie’s interrogation of the architecture of modern conflict. The work was made on behalf of the Imperial War Museum in London and with generous support from the Bradford Fellowship in Photography.
£23.80
Steidl Publishers Koto Bolofo: Lord Snowdon
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£47.20
Steidl Publishers Juergen Teller: The Keys to the House
Book SynopsisUnlike many photographers who maintain a strict divide between their commercial and private work, Teller has always combined the two. Indeed this merging is one reason for Teller’s progressive edge. The Keys to the House contains recent photographs of Teller’s life at and around his house in Suffolk: landscapes, portraits of family and friends. But of course Teller’s vision would not be complete without the occasional fashion figure who was entered his personal world – be it Lily Cole floating like Ophelia, or Vivienne Westwood leaning on a red Mercedes Benz. Born in 1964 in Erlangen, Germany, Juergen Teller has lived in London since 1986. His influential fashion photography has been published extensively, and solo exhibitions of his work have been held at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris and the Kunsthalle Wien among other institutions. Teller’s books with Steidl include Louis XV (2005), Marc Jacobs Advertising 1998–2009 (2010) and Zimmermann (2010).
£999.99
Steidl Publishers Robert Frank: You Would
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£20.40
Steidl Publishers Domingo Milella
Book SynopsisThis first published monograph by Domingo Milella is a photographic journey from his hometown in the outskirts of Bari in southern Italy, taking us to Mexico City, Cairo, Ankara, Anatolia, Sicily, Tunisia, and as far as Mesopotamia. Milella’s subject is cities and their borders, cemeteries and villages, caves and homes, tombs and hieroglyphs—in short, signs of man’s presence on earth. His interest is the overlap between civilisation and nature, and how landscape and architecture are invested with individual and collective memory. These photographs emerge from and challenge classical ideas of landscape in art history, and seek an alternative iconography in which an almost forgotten past coexists with the present. Says Milella: “Making images doesn’t only mean documenting or taking photographs. It’s also a possibility for contemplation and recollection. Building an image of the past is to face the present, and activate the possibility of the future.”
£38.40
Steidl Publishers David Goldblatt + Nadine Gordimer: On the Mines
Book SynopsisOn the Mines is a re-designed and expanded version of David Goldblatt’s influential book of 1973. Goldblatt grew up in the South African town of Randfontein, which was shaped by the social culture and financial success of the gold mines surrounding it. When these mines started to fail in the mid-sixties Goldblatt began taking photos of them, which form the basis of On the Mines. The book features an essay on the human and political dimensions of mining in South Africa by Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer, whose writing has long influenced Goldblatt. The new version of the book maintains the original three chapters “The Witwatersrand: a Time and Tailings”, “Shaftsinking” and “Mining Men”, but is otherwise completely updated, in Goldblatt’s words, “to expand the view but not to alter the sense of things”. There are thirty-one new mostly unpublished photos including colour images, eleven deleted images, a postscript by Gordimer to her essay, as well as a text by Goldblatt reflecting on his childhood and the 1973 book. On the Mines is the first of many titles in an ambitious collaboration between the photographer and Steidl that will publish Goldblatt’s life work in a series of re-prints and new books. David Goldblatt is a definitive photographer of his generation, esteemed for his dispassionate depiction of life in South Africa over a period of more than fifty years. Born in Randfontein in 1930, Goldblatt worked in his father’s menswear business until 1963 when he took up photography full time. Goldblatt’s work concerns above all human values and is a unique document of life during and after apartheid. His photographs are held in major international collections, and his solo exhibitions include those at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1998, and the Fondation Henri Cartier- Bresson in Paris in 2011. In 1989 Goldblatt founded the Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg to teach visual literacy and photography especially to those disadvantaged by apartheid.
£38.40
Steidl Bryan Adams Exposed
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£45.00
Steidl Publishers David Maisel: Black Maps: American Landscape and
Book SynopsisBlack Maps is the first in-depth survey of the major aerial projects by David Maisel, whose images of radically altered terrain have transformed the practice of contemporary landscape photography. In more than 100 photos that span Maisel’s career, Black Maps presents a hallucinatory worldview encompassing both stark documentary and tragic metaphor, and exploring the relationship between nature and humanity today. Maisel’s images of environmentally impacted sites consider the aesthetics of open pit mines, clear-cut forests, rampant urbanization and sprawl, and zones of water reclamation. These surreal and disquieting photos take us towards the margins of the unknown and as the Los Angeles Times has stated, “argue for an expanded definition of beauty, one that bypasses glamour to encompass the damaged, the transmuted, the decomposed.” David Maisel was born in New York in 1961. His photographs have been exhibited internationally, and are included in many permanent collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Maisel was a scholar in residence at the Getty Research Institute in 2007, an artist in residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts in 2008, and a recipient of an individual artist’s grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is a trustee of the Headlands Center for the Arts.
£44.00
Steidl Publishers Michael Ruetz: The Family of Dog
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£25.50
Steidl Publishers François-Marie Banier: Never Stop Dancing
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£8.00
Steidl Publishers Robert Frank: Park/Sleep
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£20.40
