Africa

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 25 x 30,5 x 2,5 cm., 216 pp.,color ills., text language: English

'Dark Atlas' by Perttu SAKSA, combines documentary images with still lifes and abstract photographs that locate the subject of energy as a structural element of our society. Oil and fuel become as tangible as the problems caused by dependence on them.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 20 x 26 x 1,5 cm., 105 pp., richly illustrated, text language: English

This out-of-print photo volume 'This empty world' by Nick BRANDT contains dramatically staged photographs that bring together and reveal animals and people in East Africa as victims of environmental destruction in an emotionally powerful, cinematic way.

Bold and striking are the photography, the Dutch photo artist Viviane SASSEN in the photo volume 'Parasomnia'. Her subject in this monograph a sleep disorder that causes strange feelings and dreams. Both editions are out of print.

'Life & Afterlife in Benin' opens a new chapter in the history of photography in Africa. Portraits of the photographers in Benin are marked by dark dramas and deep mysticisms; they show a people caught between a pre-colonial past & a post-colonial future.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 30 x 21 x 2 cm., 132 pp., 89 b/w ills., English

HC (cloth cover without dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 30 cm., approx. 160 pp., approx. 100 color ills., English

The photo volume 'Photographs, Bamako, Mali 1948-1963', by Seydou KEITA draws from an expanded archive and offers over 400 mostly unpublished portraits from the photographer's heyday. His photos document Mali's people until shortly after its independence.

'Some Afrikaners photographed' David GOLDBLATT explores his ambivalence towards the African elite, which at that time was trying to establish itself on the international stage. The release in 1975 - he had begun with it in 1963 - provoked strong reactions