Photographs: collections Books
Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag On Common Ground: Schlieren - Upper Engadine.
Book Synopsis"On Common Ground" is a photographic history of spatial development in post-war Switzerland illustrated through 250 images with complementing essays. The development of settlements is documented by the idealised examples of Schlieren, which grew from an agricultural village to an industrial town and eventually to a cluster of service firms and residential suburbs of Zurich, and the Upper Engadine, the world famous mountain resort around St. Moritz in the Canton of Grisons. The authors have put together a vast collection of photographs found in archives of all sorts: local government offices, building companies, local and national newspapers, publishers of postcards, cultural heritage societies and amateur photographers. Such images have rarely been collected and analysed systematically. "On Common Ground" presents these pictures in a double-track, chronological sequence: the top part of each page shows Schlieren, the Upper Engadine takes the bottom half. The concept reveals manifold references, discrepancies and parallels between the two places. It makes traceable the passing of time and all the changes it imposes at times synchronically, in some periods at a different pace in each place. Some developments unfold at great speed in one place and stemmed in the other. Text in English and German.
£54.00
Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag Doomed Paradise: The Last Penan in the Borneo
Book SynopsisOver the years, Swiss photographer Tomas Wuthrich has visited Borneo many times to document the daily life of the Penan, a partially nomadic indigenous people living in the rainforest of Borneo. The way of life that these hunter-gatherers lead in the Sarawak state of Malaysia is critically threatened by illegal logging and oil palm plantations. The Penan people came to the world's attention thanks to Swiss-born environmental activist Bruno Manser, who disappeared in the jungle without trace in the year 2000 while campaigning for the Penan cause. In this book, Wuthrich paints a nuanced portrait of this unique culture. A selection of Penan myths, collected by Ian Mackenzie are published for the first time alongside Wuthirch's photographs. An essay on Bruno Manser and his mission for the Penans' case completes the book. Text in English, German and Penan.
£45.00
Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag Laurence Rasti Wall as Horizon
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£36.00
DruckVerlag Kettler Lords of the Earth: The Entwined Destiny of
Book SynopsisFor more than 40 years, Cyril Christo – son of the artist duo Christo and Jeanne-Claude – his wife Marie, and their son Lysander have been travelling among the last indigenous peoples of our time and documenting their relationship with nature. On their visits to far-flung places such as New Guinea, Tibet, Africa, the Amazon River, and the vast expanse of the Arctic, they have witnessed many instances of the spiritual connection between humans and nature. Lords of the Earth takes its readers on a journey to the world’s oldest continent, the birthplace of Homo sapiens. The three photographers have captured the endangered soul of Africa, threatened by humans and climate change, in a series of striking duotone images. In conjunction with a gripping essay and relevant quotations, the photographs give a fascinating account of Christo’s and Wilkinson’s experiences, encounters, and their belief in the beauty and significance of that ancient continent. This book is a tribute not only to Africa’s indigenous peoples, but also to the majestic creatures that have lived together with them since time immemorial and that are now threatened with extinction more than ever before. It includes insights into local folklore, rituals, and stories of tribespeople that provide a decidedly African perspective alongside the Western one.
£52.00
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Christian Hansen: Frauen
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£29.00
Walther König Type 42 Anonymus
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£33.75
Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Heidi Specker: In Front of: Photographs 2015
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£31.88
Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Katharina Sieverding: Photographs Projections
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£25.20
Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Natalie Czech: Cigarette Ends: Cat. Kunstverein
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£9.25
Steidl Publishers Roni Horn: Her, Her, Her, & Her
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£19.20
Steidl Publishers Juergen Teller: Nürnberg
Book SynopsisJuergen Teller has spent the last year carrying out a study of the "Reichsparteitagsgelande", the site of the Nurnberg Rallies, and a place he used to visit in his youth. The results are a series of images of stone and flora, photographed over the four seasons of a year, in seed, bloom, demise and finally dormant in the snow. It amounts to a study of mortality, the process of birth, growth and death. The book combines these works with self-portraits and family photographs through the same period, adding the perspective of the personal and quotidian life cycle.
£40.00
Steidl Christopher Morris My America
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£24.00
Steidl Publishers Abstract Architecture
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£28.00
Steidl Publishers Mitch Epstein: American Power
Book SynopsisIn American Power, Mitch Epstein investigates notions of power, both electrical and political. His focus is on energy – how it gets made, how it gets used, and the ramifications of both. From 2003 to 2008, he photographed at and around sites where fossil fuel, nuclear, hydroelectric, wind, and solar power are produced in the United States. The resulting photographs contain Epstein’s signature complex wit, surprising detail, and formal rigor. These pictures illuminate the intersection between American society and American landscape. Here is a portrait of early 21st century America, as it clings to past comforts and gropes for a more sensible future. In an accompanying essay, Epstein discusses his method, and how making these photographs led him to think harder about the artist’s role in a country teetering between collapse and transformation.
£45.60
Buchhandlung Walther Konig GmbH & Co. KG. Abt. Verlag Peter Fischli and David Weiss: Equilibres
Book SynopsisThis artist book presents 150 large-format illustrations of early photographs from the series "Equilibres (1984-1987)", most of which have not been published before. These photos are tense compositions depicting kitchenware, furniture and vegetables, with titles such as "Natural Grace", "The Fart", "A Modern Woman in Teheran", and "The Power of the Invisible". "The most beautiful thing is the balance just before it all breaks down" - Fischli/Weiss. The Swiss artist duo of Peter Fischli and David Weiss work in a range of media, from photography to realistic sculptures of everyday objects, text to film.
£27.00
Walther Konig, Verlag Thomas Florschuetz Imperfekt Werke 19972010
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£27.00
Buchhandlung Walther Konig GmbH & Co. KG. Abt. Verlag Thomas Demand: Executive
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£18.05
Walther Konig, Verlag Home is Anywhere Jewish Culture and the
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£25.00
Kehrer Verlag The Hereditary Estate
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£25.60
Kehrer Verlag A Spectacle And Nothing Strange
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£31.50
Kehrer Verlag Imperial County
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£30.40
Kehrer Verlag New Deal Utopias
Book SynopsisPhotographs of three communities built during the Great Depression explore one of the most ambitious programs of Roosevelt's New Deal.
£30.40
Kehrer Verlag Them
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£29.75
Steidl June Leaf Record 19741975
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£33.25
Steidl Khalid Bin Hamad Bin Ahmad Al Thani Here is My
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£28.31
Steidl Publishers Abstrakt Zermatt
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£25.50
Steidl Publishers William Eggleston: At Zenith
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£41.25
Steidl Publishers The Order of Things: Photography from the Walther
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£58.50
Moderne Kunst, Verlag Fur Welt Bilder 5 World Images 5
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£36.81
Arnoldsche The Scene and the Unseen: Opera in Pictures.
Book SynopsisPhotographer Monika Rittershaus is regarded as an inspiring interpreter of today’s musical theatre in all its diversity, opulence, and drama, but also in its human profundity, uniqueness, and veracity. As a highly sensitive observer, she looks out over the on-stage activity, uncovering gentle, touching, and peripheral moments. Barrie Kosky: “I have often observed Monika at work through the corner of my eye as I sit behind the production desk ... She seems to sense the inner world of a moment and to know at exactly the right moment when to click her camera.” In her highly stringent visual compositions, Rittershaus depicts in a personalized and decisive way many influential directors and operas such as: DAS RHEINGOLD, Richard Wagner, Los Angeles Opera (2009), director: Achim Freyer COSI FAN TUTTE, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Salzburger Festspiele (2020), director: Christof Loy TANNHÄUSER, Richard Wagner, De Nationale Opera, Amsterdam (2019), director: Christof Loy CARMEN, Georges Bizet, Oper Frankfurt (2016), director: Barrie Kosky SALOME, Richard Strauss, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow (2021), director: Claus Guth ELEKTRA, Richard Strauss, Staatsoper Hamburg (2022), director: Dmitri Tcherniakov IPHIGÉNIE EN TAURIDE, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Opernhaus Zurich (2020), director: Andreas Homoki CENDRILLON, Jules Massenet, Opéra National de Paris Bastille (2022), director: Mariame Clément Text in English and German.Table of ContentsIris Maria vom Hof WHAT IS OPERA’S STATUS TODAY? 6 Barrie Kosky THE THEATRE‘S BUTTERFLY HUNTER 8 PHOTOGRAPHS BY | FOROGRAFIEN VON MONIKA RITTERSHAUS 13 Dirk Allgaier ON HAPPINESS AND OUR HEARTS‘ DESIRE IN THE CAVE 212 SHORT BIOGRAPHIES 214 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 217 GLOSSARY 218
£33.60
Schiler & Mucke Gbr Verlag Unterwegs Am Golf / Along the Gulf: Von Basra
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£33.00
AVEdition The Urban in the Periphery: European
Book Synopsisarchitekturbild, the European Architectural Photography Prize, has been awarded on a two-yearly basis since 1995. The theme for 2021 is "The Urban in the Periphery". Migration between conurbations and rural areas, their respective attractiveness and independence, but also dependence and interdependence with one another: What would be more predestined to trace the subtle or even obvious effects of the urban-rural movement than architectural photography? Text in English and German.
£27.00
Edition Lammerhuber Architecture of an Existential Threat
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£40.50
Edition Lammerhuber Paris/NYC
Book SynopsisFull of surprises, fresh and pleasantly familiar at the same time. David Bacher's photography is a kind of treasure hunt, where viewers can discover and interpret Paris and New York in amusing, yet reflective, ways. The images often mirror each other and just as often it is not immediately clear in which city a photograph was taken. His aesthetics, inheriting the tradition of many great street photographers, who have worked in Paris and New York City, lie somewhere between Louis Stettner's calm spirituality and William Klein's post-modernist provocation. Fifteen years ago, this American living in Paris and in Nantes decided to take mirror images of New York and Paris. In doing so, he realised that for him 'Paris and New York are like two theatre sets with thousands of actors without predefined roles'. His fluid gaze reflects the chaos of appearances without staging it. Bacher likes to create optical illusions. He jostles perspectives, giving reflections and shadows a presence as real as that of the bodies and faces which inhabit the theatre of his work, the streets. Text in English, German and French.
£40.50
Parkett Verlag,Switzerland Parkett: Vol 54
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£22.50
Parkett Verlag,Switzerland Parkett
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£22.50
Edition Reuss Famous Eyes
Book SynopsisThis book offers an unprecedented documentation of our era''s most famous people, including artists, photographers, designers, creators of culture, musicians, actors and architects. Each of these people was present with his or her full energy and enthusiasm when Daniel and Geo Fuchs used a box-like Polaroid camera, which had originally been developed for eye doctors, to produce these creative highlights. The beginning of each session was devoted to the project of taking an extreme close-up of the celebrity''s eye. The next step was to stage a second image, which usually integrated the first portrait of the person''s eye. The resultant photographic artworks are every bit as diverse as are the personalities of the photographed individuals. These portraits accurately reflect the many facets of life: from gorgeous and aesthetic, through crazy and shrill, to desolate and thought-provoking. A representative collection of these fascinating photos is available now in this large-format photo book. Book and slipcase. Text in English, German and French.
£47.59
Edition Reuss Feminine Anarchy 1: Girls Pissing in Public
Book SynopsisText in English, French & German. For it is only she who will satisfy me with an issuing forth of bodily fluids. And as her pee begins to spew from her engorged cunt, her laugher breaks the palpable tension. To her this is also fun. -- Jackie McMillan
£41.99
Edition Axel Menges California: Impressions from the American West
Book SynopsisText in English and German. Perhaps the fascination of American landscapes, particularly the deserts is their featurelessness. In Germany, Brandenburg for example, the much plainer landscape lives on in its history. This where the Great Elector won his victory and Napoleon lost a battle. Actual nature unaffected by human beings is hidden under the woodland and heath. The American desert landscape is dominated by grandiose nature with out human intervention. Here the history of the earth is to the fore exercising a particular fascination and anyone who reads it enjoys a double gift. The author travelled around the country photographing the mountains and valleys, the coastline and nature reserves. He also encountered people and writes about American friendliness.Table of ContentsIf You're Going to Hanaupah...; Pictorial Section -- San Francisco and Other Bay Area Cities; Coastal Areas; California Landscapes; Baly Area Flights; Kings Canyon and Mono Lake; Death Valley; Grand Canyon; Monument Valley; Mesa Verde; Bryce Canyon; Craters of the Moon; Yellowstone; Markle Pass; Coeur D'Alene; Mt. Rainier, Mount St. Helens; Yosemite.
£23.80
Moderne Kunst, Verlag Fur Images of the World
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£32.00
Kehrer Verlag Lisa M. Robinson: Snowbound
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£37.04
Spector Books Double Bound Economies: On Reading a Photographic
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£32.40
Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Sergej Vutuc: Something in Between
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£28.50
Argobooks The Waiting: Al Inithar
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£9.46
Edition Reuss Katzen in Japan: Eine Reise durchs Land der
Book SynopsisText German. An enthralling illustrated book by French photographer Alexandre Bonnefoy who has captured the velvet paws in their urban habitat with his sensational snap-shots. Everything is real. You will note instantly his keen sense of being in the right place, at the right time. Whether in the midst of Tokyo''s urban jungle, in the ease and comfort of a Cat Café, or slumbering on a wooden pile in the countryside, or awaiting freshly caught fish in the port -- from Okinawa to Hakkaido, you will find cats everywhere in Japan. In addition to the numerous photographs this illustrated volume contains many enchanting portrayals of cats, lovingly designed by Delphine Vaufrey.
£33.74
Edition Reuss Island of Cats -- Hydra
Book SynopsisText in English, German & Greek. Hydra Island cats! Embark on a photographical journey to the Greek island of Hydra in the Mediterranean Sea with this photo book -- this island is a hot tip for all cat-lovers. Hydra is a magic and sleepy spot with wild groups of cats and wheedling velvet paws. Cats are simply everywhere here -- in colours of all shades, at the harbour, in the town and in natural surroundings. They belong to the local residents'' everyday life, and tourists love them. It was love at first sight when photographer and cat-lover Gabriela Staebler first set foot on Hydra and succumbed to the beguiling charm of the island''s cats. While roving through the island, she took impressive snapshots of the cats and created idyllic portraits. Her best photographs are compiled in this wonderful photo book. Additionally, cat-lovers are given further interesting information like, for example, the touching stories of HydraArk, an organisation for the protection of cats and other animals. Its non-profit-making commitment to the welfare of street cats on Hydra and the loving help of volunteers are rays of hope for all cat-lovers. You cannot but love the wheedling little tigers of Hydra: if you give your love to a cat, it will be requited thousandfold. Hydra is a place of tranquillity and inspiration. The island has attracted lots of artists and celebrities -- among them Sophia Loren and Leonard Cohen. Motorized vehicles are not allowed on Hydra, and no discotheques either. What you may enjoy instead are breathtaking views to the sea, tranquillity, pristine nature and free-roaming cats. Life here goes on at a more leisurely pace. Hydra''s world is more colourful and cheerful than any other. During the summer months, people from all over the world sit outside the taverns. Hydra is also a wild natural beauty and a paradise at any season of the year. The cats on the island are looking forward to your visit and they welcome you by uttering a loud meeeow!
£33.74
Seltmann Publishers GmbH Black & White
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£32.30
Seltmann & Sohne Holy Shit
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£29.25
