Much is popularised of the Mafia in film, literature, music and urban legend. Some stories are inspired by and respectful of the facts, but many are presented through a creative lens distorting how organized crime began. References are often made to criminal activity in the infamous Prohibition Era, but few stories cover the preceding years, until now. This new book

A major figure of the French arts scene, Xavier Veilhan (born in 1963) lives and works in Paris. His work is the result of a plural practice, shared between sculpture, painting, environment, live performance, video, and photography.

Alejandro Cartagena’s photographs of recently built Mexican suburbs, ask us to look at this phenomenon of the suburban environs and how it has fueled variously the need for solutions to overcrowded cities, or the desire to form and incorporate community living where replication and anonymity are the rule rather than the exception.

The photo of a woman’s leg stepping onto an open book when climbing out of bed served as inspiration.
I asked some of my friends to take a picture for me according to these guidelines. They should photograph themselves stepping on a book with their bare feet. It was agreed that the authors of the photos remain anonymous

A digest of magazines around the world edited by Maurizio Cattelan and Paola Manfrin, Permanent Food is a cannibal magazine. Bound together in each issue of this periodical of pilfering from Maurizio Cattelan and Paola Manfrin is a thoroughly bewildering, amusing, grotesque, and blasé selection of images culled from anywhere, everywhere, and nowhere.

Günther Selichar’s preferred thematic field of work, and his oeuvre has revolved around it since the early 1980s, is the media and mass media. this publication not only documents in its entirety what is probably his most extensive body of work who’s afraid of blue, red and green? (1990–2017),

In the mid-seventies, the Viking Landers were the first to land on planet Mars. Though the alien landscape was magnificent, there were no canals or skeletons or wind-blown ruined dwellings. Today, not a single trace remains of Viking Landers 3 and 4. But myth (and conspiracy theories) have it that an alien survey was commissioned of planet Earth.

"Her∂ubrei∂ at Home" is a collection of photographs of the landscape of home in Iceland. Her∂ubrei∂, Iceland’s much-loved mountain, and Stéfan V.

Auf der Suche nach dem Verlorenen. Der international bekannte Modefotograf Alexander Gnädinger widmete sich in den letzten 2 Jahren einem freien Projekt, um ein Gegengewicht zu seiner kommerziellen Arbeit zu schaffen. Extrem stilisierte, ästhetisch verdichtete Bilder, wie sie z.B. seit Jahren für seinen Kunden Adidas entstehen, sind sein Markenzeichen.

Coming up for Air is the result of a long-term photographic body of work made in Japan between 2008 & 2009 over the course of three visits to the country. Though the images were made in Japan they are not essentially about Japan and are more of a reaction to my life in London at the time.

A Small Retrospective From Three Decades

Charles Fréger has photographed a series of portraits of Breton women wearing costumes and headdresses of endless variety: from high starched towers to elaborately pinned, tucked and embroidered confections of handmade lace, as delicate as they are distinctive.

American artist Roe Ethridge's latest book takes its title from the French "C'est pas du luxe", an ironic phrase which alludes to the superfluous nature of luxury whilst proclaiming how essential it is to existence.

Der Flughafen Roissy Charles de Gaulle war für JH Engström (Jahrgang 1969) schon immer ein besonderer Ort. Im Alter von zehn Jahren zog er mit seinen Eltern nach Paris. Charles de Gaulle war sein erster Kontakt mit der Welt außerhalb seines Heimatlandes Schweden. Engström verbindet ein intensives Verhältnis, nicht nur mit Paris, sondern auch mit Charles de Gaulle und Flughäfen im Allgemeinen.

"Something So Clear" is Kapil Das’ patient look behind the visual clichés and stereotypes that have come to define India. Consisting of a tight edit from thousands of photos taken over a decade, the book shows the spectrum of India through land- and streetscapes, portraits and everyday happenings, some as deceptively simple as a man carrying a mattress or a beetle resting on a leaf.

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

First book dedicated to Casilli's decade-defining entertainment portraits.

Heavy metal is a cultural phenomenon that unites its fans across borders, generations, genders, religions, and social classes. Metalheads is a journey into the heavy metal underground around the world that documents the lives and passion of these fans.

Joachim Brohm (Jahrgang 1955) unternimmt ein foto-urbanistisches Projekt mit Langzeitbeoachtung. Von 1992 bis 2002 fotografiert er auf ein und demselben Areal, das - am Rande einer deutschen Großstadt gelegen

Alexey Brodovitch's Ballet published in 1945 is one of the most legendary of photobook masterpieces. While already established as a leading influential art director and graphic designer, Brodovitch turned his photographic talents towards rehearsals and performances of ballet companies visiting New York stages.

'An Archeology of Fear and Desire' is an attempt to recontextualise Israel as place and metaphor, exploring longing, belonging and exclusion. Frédéric Brenner follows up his opus Diaspora with a visual essay about Israel, a land of devouring myths in which constructs – social and religious – perpetuate a tyranny of roles, which render us strangers to what is most intimate in ourselves.

Als ausgebildeter Zeichner arbeitete Adolphe Braun (1812–1877) zunächst für die elsässische Textilindustrie, bevor er sich 1854 der Fotografie zuwandte. Schon ein Jahr später gelang ihm auf der Pariser Weltausstellung der Durchbruch mit einer mehr als 300 Fotografien umfassenden Serie von Blumenstillleben. Die weit verbreiteten Aufnahmen dienten Textilgestaltern als Vorlagen und waren auch bei Dekorationsmalern und Zeichnern beliebt.

Guy Bourdin was a groundbreaking image-maker and undoubtedly one of the most influential fashion photographers of the twentieth century. Intriguing and revolutionary, his work has achieved a cult-like following; the striking use of color, suggestive narratives, and surrealist aesthetics establishing a visual language all his own.

Becoming Disfarmer uses a compelling sequence of over 100 images to tell the story of Mike Disfarmer's vernacular portraiture and its transformation into art. This monograph features his vintage prints along with a selection of enlargements made from his negatives in the 1970s, through which his work first became known.

American artist Vija Celmins (b. 1938) is widely admired and respected for her sublime images of night skies and ocean waves. "Vija Celmins:

Zoe Leonard’s You see I am here after all brings together thousands of postcard images of the “great cataract,” Niagra Falls, from the early 1900s through the 1950s. This grand accumulation of viewpoints brings up issues as diverse as human interventions with nature and the function of landscape in inventing American historical narratives, as well as the technological evolution of image reproduction and dissemination.

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.

Trained as an agronomic engineer, Carsten Höller (born 1961) is known for his frequent use of mushrooms as a motif and theme in his installations and projects.

An immersive glimpse into the private, domestic world of one of the twentieth century’s most revolutionary artists. Nestled in a leafy, residential section of Los Angeles is the house where Tom of Finland (Touko Laaksonen, 1920–1991) lived and worked during the last decade of his life.

Can an autobiographical tale tell the personal stories of many? This is what Rubén H. Bermúdez achieves through the pages of the photo book 'And you, why are you black?" where, starting from an investigation into the origins of black slavery in Spain, the author constructs an autobiographical tale that acts as a political essay, rescuing his memory captured in the images, conversations and symbols that marked his life and thus narrates the everyday and the extraordinary of a society seen from a black perspective.

Significantly expanding the scope and functions of the HaFI pamphlet series, Ben Alper and Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa present visual unknowns and forgotten gestures from the defunct archives of American mid-century news photography. Carefully curated and collated, their iconographic essay, a Bilderatlas of sorts, explores in depth the notion of “hide,” and of what forces normative relations to the visible serve to veil. How can, how should these images be looked at? And how do they unsettle the contemporary gaze?

Bodies are agents and products of history. Bodies are history made flesh, but they are also primary tools for understanding the past, present and future. History is a choreographed sequence of gestures that makes bodies intelligible to each other. Every gesture is a link in a chain binding us to gender, race and social class. Gestures solidify into identities. They enact identities that become natural through the systematic repetition of identical

UN is a photographic diary by Giovanna Silva guiding us through the United Nations Office headquarters in Geneva. A chat-like narration unveils spaces, thoughts, eye catching details and is overlapped by images of halls, old phone booths filled with plastic wrap, textured walls, floors and ceilings, rows of tables and chairs, either straight or curving, like rollercoasters.

Alexey Brodovitch's Ballet published in 1945 is one of the most legendary of photobook masterpieces. While already established as a leading influential art director and graphic designer, Brodovitch turned his photographic talents towards rehearsals and performances of ballet companies visiting New York stages.

Revised edition of groundbreaking book originally published in the seventies as part of the influential Suburbia series by Bill Owens. Photographs of people working, with humorous, heartbreaking and insightful quotes about the experience of working.

The fourth and final volume in Bill Owens' landmark Suburbia series [SUBURBIA (1973; revised edition 1999, Fotofolio), OUR KIND OF PEOPLE (1975), WORKING - I DO IT FOR THE MONEY (1977), and LEISURE (2004)].

Nur wenige wisswn, dass der Kultregisseur seine Karriere mit der bildenden Kunst begann und ihr bis heute treu geblieben ist. Lynchs Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Lithografien und Fotografien und in jüngster Zeit auch musikalische Kompositionen sind elementarer Bestandteil seines kreativen Schaffens.

Eine echte Horizonterweiterung: Der britisch-amerikanische Fotograf Sze Tsung Leong (*1970 in Mexiko-Stadt) kombiniert in seiner Serie Horizons Weitwinkelaufnahmen von Landschaften aus aller Welt, die erstaunliche formale Ähnlichkeiten oder vergleichbare Rhythmen aufweisen und deren Horizontlinie er jeweils auf dasselbe Niveau legt.

Inez van Lamsweerde (*1963) gehört zu den bekanntesten Vertreterinnen des Crossover. Ihr Spielfeld liegt dort, wo sich Mode und Kunst treffen.

Weiß bemalte, nackte Körper, die Gesichter vom Betrachter abgewendet, so fotografiert Nadav Kander (*1961 in Israel) die Modelle seiner jüngsten Serie. Die Accessoires sind spärlich, die Ästhetik ist reduziert, gleichwohl erscheint das Arrangement der meist üppigen Körper barock.

Goldblatt recherchiert und dokumentiert darin mit seiner Kamera die sozialen, kulturellen und politischen Dimensionen des Bergbaus in seiner südafrikanischen Heimat Randfontein.

Lee Friedlander is one of the most renowned photographers of his generation. Through Friedlander’s lens, people in their everyday environments are transformed into arresting portraits, and the banal features of roadsides, storefronts, and city streets become vivid scenery. In Dressing Up, Friedlander ventures into new territory, turning his eye to the rarefied world of fashion and revealing precisely what is commonplace about it: behind the glamorous spectacle of the runway are many people hard at work.

Als jüngster der Becher-Studenten – geboren 1967 – hat sich Elger Esser in seinem fotografischen Konzept am grundlegendsten von dem seiner berühmten Lehrer entfernt.

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

Dieser Band zeigt eine Auswahl von Fotografien von Dine selbst, von seinen Freunden, Verwandten und von Pinocchio, dem Motiv, das in seinen Werken immer wieder auftaucht.

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

This book, the first to pair the two, examines the work they produced during visits to Britain and Ireland in the 1960s and 1970s.

Martin d’Orgeval’s photographs show the animals and insects that survived the disaster in situ, against a background of charred woodwork in the shop that had been their habitat since their ‘natural’ death.

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.

New York-based photographer Mariana Cook is known for her character studies of persons both in and out of the public eye. Among her previous bestselling photobooks are Mathematicians, Faces of Science, Mothers and Sons and Fathers and Daughters.

“It might be said that the subject of Callahan’s photographs is photography, and that his world exists essentially as a formal problem.” John Szarkowski

Theresienstadt oder Terezín, die befestigte Stadt nördlich Prag, errang 1942 traurige Berühmtheit, als sie von den Nazis als „jüdische Mustersiedlung“ ausgesucht wurde.

Becoming Disfarmer uses a compelling sequence of over 100 images to tell the story of Mike Disfarmer's vernacular portraiture and its transformation into art. This monograph features his vintage prints along with a selection of enlargements made from his negatives in the 1970s, through which his work first became known.

Der 1938 in London geborene Star-Fotograf David Bailey begann seine Karriere als Chronist des „Swinging London“ der 1960er-Jahre und gilt bis heute als Meister der Porträtaufnahme.

Mit seinen Bildern von den „Swinging Sixties“ – ihren Stars, ihrer Mode, den schönen Körpern und bedeutenden Köpfen – wurde David Bailey zu einem der wichtigsten Chronisten der Epoche.

Als "Nothing Personal", das gemeinsame Buchprojekt der Schulfreunde Richard Avedon und James Baldwin 1964 erschien, stellte es die Fähigkeit und Bereitschaft des Publikums, Mehrdeutigkeiten und Widersprüche auszuhalten, auf eine zu harte Probe.

The site of the leather bar Eagle LA, in Los Angeles, has been home to three highly popular leather bars over the decades: the Shed, the Outcast, and the Gauntlett II. The Eagle LA, opened in 2005, follows a long-standing tradition of leather fetish and uniform, set forth by leather Eagle bars around the country.

Kosten, Nutzen und Schuldenkrise – das sind die bestimmenden Größen, wenn heute von Europa die Rede ist. Mit seinen fünf Streiflichtern über den Kontinent erinnert Alvermann an den Reichtum und die Vielfalt europäischer Kultur und Geschichte.