This artist’s book brings together two technological extremes: one of the earliest photographic processes, the daguerreotype, and one of the most advanced contemporary imaging techniques, scanning electron microscopy.

Der Band versammelt filmkritische Texte von Frieda Grafe zu drei bedeutenden Regisseuren des frühen deutschen Kinos:

Narcolepsy presents a sequence of photographs by Australian photographer Max Pam that reflect his long-standing engagement with travel, memory, and the subjective experience of place.

Michael Mauracher has produced a wonderful book, conceived together with Janine Thaler, who is also responsible for the design.

This anthology examines the psychological dimensions of space and the emotional responses it provokes, including agoraphobia, vertigo, and claustrophobia.

Best known for his Civil War photographs, Alexander Gardner (18211882) also created two extraordinary bodies of work depicting the transformation of

Still is a photographic publication by Thomas Struth that reflects his sustained interest in observation, perception and the quiet structures of everyday environments.

Swedish artist duo Nathalie Djurberg (born 1978) and Hans Berg (born 1978) create installations with objects, music and moving images – dream worlds in which one could lose oneself.

"A series of drawings show the triangular bone that is situated at the lowest point of our spine.

Issue #5 of Random Photo Journal focuses on neighbourhoods and living conditions in African contexts.

Walter Niedermayr: Raumfolgen 1991-2001 dokumentiert die fotografische Werkgruppe Raumfolgen, an der der italienische Fotograf

Geta Brătescu was born in Ploiești, Romania, in 1926. Despite state repression during the communist-Stalinist dictatorship under Nicolae Ceaușescu (1965–1989),

With a 48-page insert Over the past 40 years, much has been said about the RAF and the German Autumn of 1977 from journalistic, historical, literary,

Of Love & Care is a photography book by Sabine Schirdewahn that investigates the presence of memory, intimacy, and absence through domestic

This title offers a superbly illustrated overview of the evolution of two very different strains of modern Japanese photography.

The book DER PARASIT/THE PARASITE showcases works by artist Sophie Tiller that were created during her long-term project of the same name.

An intimate study of the friendship and creative dialogue between two artists, offering an in-depth understanding of their work and the upheavals of 1960s New York

In Perdre la tête operiert François-Marie Banier mit der Fotografie als einem Medium der Entgrenzung.

Auch dreißig Jahre nach der deutschen Wiedervereinigung sind die Erfahrungen von Frauen- und Lesbengruppen in der DDR vielfach unbekannt. Sie stellen eine historische Leerstelle dar,

Das Werk der Österreichisch-britischen Exilfotografin Edith Tudor-Hart (1908–1973) wird im Bildband »Ein klarer Blick in turbulenten Zeiten«

Hidden pockets of wilderness still exist within the urban environs of New York City, and in Legacy Joel Meyerowitz invites us to discover them.

In Tragant Hahnenfuß Schraubenpalme Queller Knopfkraut Mantelsamer versammelt Martin Schwenk Zeichnungen, Skulpturenfragmente und botanische Studien, in denen reale Pflanzenformen mit imaginären Organismen verschmelzen.

The first issue of BFK’s photo zine Colorplay captures the essence of Berlin through its colors.

Seit fast zwanzig Jahren dokumentiert der britische Fotograf Simon Phipps den Wiederaufbau Großbritanniens nach

Drawn back to the landscapes of his youth, Michael Nagl photographs the seemingly untouched outskirts of Vienna—low brush, birch groves, open fields.

This volume presents a focused examination of two short film works: Sink, a segment from Michael Snow’s expansive investigation into sound-image relations,

Cornelia Schleime ist eine der markantesten Stimmen der deutschen Kunstszene – und eine Chronistin des Widerstands in der Spätphase der DDR.

Marcel Odenbach's work is a rich and multifaceted exploration of contemporary art, spanning over four decades of artistic practice.

The image of the Caribbean is as much a creation of the West as it is the result of its population's incredibly complex identity.

What is the work of the African creative intellectual? Whether branded as ‘native’ by Fanon or ‘negro’ by Cruse, the vocation and commitment of Africa’s creative intellectuals and their mode of ‘self-writing’ has been under examination for much of the post-colonial era. Bekolo’s new text is a valuable addition to this important library.

HaFI 018 reprints a document containing the script of Skip Norman’s film On Africa (1970). Norman, born in Baltimore in 1933, had left the U.S. in the early 1960s to study German, theater, and medicine in Göttingen. In 1966 he moved to Berlin to join the newly founded German Film and Television Academy (DFFB). By 1969, he had made the films Riffi (1966), Blues People (1968), Cultural Nationalism (1969) and the graduation film Strange Fruit (1969).

Der Bildband ist eine ausführliche fotokünstlerische Beschreibung des privaten Lebens- und Arbeitsraumes von Inge Morath in ihrem Wohnort in Roxbury, Connecticut, USA. Die SW-Fotoreportage folgt der Tradition der Dokumentation der Ateliers bedeutender Künstler:innen als wichtige Quelle ihrer künstlerischen Arbeit.

Surreal arrangements of artifacts from skulls and teapots to fried eggs and dirty socks by Théo Mercier. Théo Mercier (born 1984) employs found objects in his photography and sculpture to subvert viewers’ expectations. His inaugural monograph reveals the impressive scope of his oeuvre.

First published in 1961, Lorenza Mazzetti’s “The Sky is Falling” (“Il cielo cade”) is an impressionistic, idiosyncratic, and uniquely funny look at the writer’s childhood after she and her sister are sent to live with their Jewish relatives following the death of their parents. Bright and bucolic, vivid and mournful, and brimming with saints, martyrdom, ideals, wrong-doing and self-imposed torments,

Including essays about Barbara Hammer, Agnès Varda, Camille Billops, Jane Arden, Penny Slinger, Ana Mendieta, Hito Steyerl, Mati Diop, Catherine Breillat, Carol Morley, Ulrike Ottinger, Charlotte Prodger, Charlotte Pryce, Rosalind Nashashibi & Lucy Skaer, Gloria Camiruaga, Margarethe von Trotta, Astra Taylor, Lina Wertmüller. Interviews with Akosua Adoma Owusu, Astra Taylor, Ericka Beckman, Carolee Schneemann, Barbara Hammer

Over the last fifteen years, Istanbul has emerged as one of the principal megacities at the outset of the twenty-first century. The picturesque has given way to an unexpected boom of new, profit-driven urban development including high-rise, sterile gated communities and satellite cities to house a vastly expanding population — all at the expense of long-time residents and under the mantle of a self-confident and arbitrary government.

Werner Dütsch (1939-2018), together with other commissioning editors of the film department of Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) Cologne, devoted his work to the past and present of the cinema like few others.

‘A grove of giant redwoods or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great or beautiful cathedral.’
Theodore Roosevelt

The Mechanism is a melancholic series of black-and-white photographs that form a sci-fi story about contemporary life. Bringing together images made in multiple cities, the work deals with themes of technology, surveillance and urban society.

Flussläufe, Wellen, Meeresküsten – seit seinen Anfängen ist das Wasser ein immer wiederkehrendes Motiv in Elger Essers photographischen Landschaften und Veduten.

"Hallo, ich heiße Jimmy", sagte eine Krähe zum kleinen Jim Dine in seiner Einleitung, "aber dies erschreckte mich, und zugleich ... verstand ich."

This book is an overview of the landscape photography of Thibaut Cuisset, who over the last 30 years has explored issues and emotions specific to the landscape, environment and the notion of territory. Cuisset has traveled widely and photographed the landscapes of many countries, yet he inevitably returns to the terrain of his native France and its infinite variety.

Otto Wagner (1841–1918), einer der Pioniere der modernen Architektur, beschritt auch in seiner leidenschaftlichen Argumentation für einen radikalen Wandel im Bauen völlig neue Wege.

Mit „A worm crossed the street“ führt uns Nadja Bournonville in die Archive des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien, in denen Tiere in Dermoplastiken, Skelette und Nasspräparate transformiert, verbogen und ausgeblichen die Regale füllen. In Ethanol eingelegt, einst mit Arsen behandelt und in ständiger Überprüfung auf Insektenbefall. Die archivierten Tiere sind nicht nur ein Schatten ihrer selbst, sondern eben auch oft ihrer ganzen Art.

Dokumentationsfilm von Wolfgang Braden, 2007, 60 min.

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Sommer 1981. Ich bin 14 Jahre alt. Mahmud Al-Taki trägt meinen Namen in das Heft ein und bringt mich in die Ausrüstungskammer:

Die Letzte

Das Fotobuch "Reise durch die USA" zeigt Bilder des Hobbyfotografen und damaligen Theologiestudenten Paul Gerhard Diez,

This artist's book houses seven CDs that were the audio accompaniment to German conceptual artist Lothar Baumgarten's 2009 exhibition at the Kunsthaus Bregenz in Austria.

NESTER zeigt Fotos von Häusern, die sich zurückziehen. Häuser im Grünen, wie man so sagt.

„transplants“ beschäftigt sich mit dem (quartiersweise) auftretenden Phänomen, dass Zimmer- oder Balkonpflanzen im öffentlichen Raum entsorgt oder „renaturiert“ werden.

Nach einer Reihe mysteriöser Funde von Leichen mit Einstichen am Nacken erwacht auf der Intensivstation eines Luzerner Spitals ein Mann aus dem Koma und behauptet, Wilhelm Tell zu sein: Ein Fall für das SBI-Agentenduo Hedinger/Gossolt.

‘The documentary photo project ‘We would come to doubt everything…’ deals with Juan (Jan), a Brabant dentist who thirty years ago left everything behind to start a new life in the remote mountain village of San Sebastian de Garabandal in Spain. Juan de la Torre leads the life of a hermit and has devoted himself to the ‘study of life’, immersing himself in books on religion, alternative philosophies, the falsification of history and conspiracy theories.

In dem Heft Dosen und Echtholzblenden umkreist Wilhelm Klotzek die Baugruben der Wendeheimat, die exponierten Übergangsorte und blinden Flecke seines unbewußten Berlins.

In the editorial is observed that today's art world is confronted with the tyranny of communication, although in the mean time, illegible and inaccessible images in art are accepted as a matter-of-course.

15 images from a serie of photographs realized in Mexico during the Marcos' campaign in 2006, with two essays: a reflexion on contemporary photography

Mit einem Textbeitrag von Alexander Rischer

Zin Taylor has become known internationally for his elaborate installations encompassing elements of performance and sculpture along with drawing, printing, and video.

“While you are wondering if you know me , I am strolling through the city with a newspaper. Are you following? I am crossing the square, and turning the corner. I haven’t yet read the paper. I’ll propably use it this evening as a place-mat or else. I’ll swat mosquitoes with it. The newspaper gives me a refernce point. It’s a prop that gives me a role in a city fulll of passers-by. “ (Maria Barnas)