Color photography

The photographic volume 'Palermo Panorama' by Mauro D'AGATI consists of thirteen chapters, organically evolving into a complex image of the city. Always full of empathy, he portrays the resilient characters and the decaying beauty of his hometown Palermo.

This volume that finishes Alejandro CARTAGENA's 'Santa Barbara' photo book project is still drawing an uncertain future. From the beginning, his pictures channeled the fear of fire and the flames that charred scars leave behind. And what's next?

In the out-of-print 'Die Elbe', Jörn VANHÖFEN delves into the ephemeral and atmospheric, he discovers Elbe ports and cities and, of course, the faces of the Germans & Czechs living here. Stories of life on the Elbe and biographical memories round it off.

Out-of-print catalog volume 'Waitin' Around to Die' by Christoph DETTMEIER shows endless expanses of prairie in the Ruhr area, Detroit and Berlin. Industrial wastelands and deserted places appear surreal, completely timeless and astonishingly picturesque.

In his out-of-print photo book 'Long Play', Arne REIMER looks back at the analog age: there are photographs of stacked vinyl records, views of record stores as well as record boxes. The whole is supplemented by archive material that shows the development.

'Female View' traces the transformation of the fashion photo image from the 1940s to today through exemplary positions: from the fashion magazine to the exhibition and the coffee table book to video staging and digital self-representation in social media.

'Before They Pass Away' by Jimmy NELSON presents indigenous tribal cultures from around the world. Using a large format camera, he photographs everyday rituals of the peoples as well as sensitive portraits and shows how they live in harmony with nature.

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24,5 x 28,5 x 2 cm., 96 pp., color ills., English

This catalog volume, 'Photographs 1984-2009' is the first monograph on Boris BECKER, who studied with Bernd & Hilla BECHER. All important series of works are shown. In it he concentrates in a special way on formal structures as well as color accents.

'TTP' by Hayahisa TOMIYASU consists of a series of photos taken from the 8th floor window of his student dormitory in Leipzig. Each picture is composed similarly, but turning the page, we see how the function of the ping-pong table is constantly changing.