Der Basler Bildhauer Carl Burckhardt (Lindau 1878 – Ligornetto 1923) gilt als Vater der modernen Schweizer Plastik.

Walter Knoll gilt als Möbelmarke der Moderne, die Klassiker und Ikonen der Avantgarde geschaffen hat: Möbelstücke, die stilbildend wirken und unser Lebensgefühl nachhaltig prägen.

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.

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.

Der Schweizer Künstler Urs Graf (um 1485-1527/28) verdingte sich als Söldner und führte ein ziemlich abenteuerliches Leben. In Gerichtsakten fiel des Öfteren sein Name – im Zusammenhang mit Schlägereien, Körperverletzung und Ehebruch. So entfaltet sich auch im außergewöhnlichen Konvolut seiner Zeichnungen ein Bild seiner Zeit: Soldaten, Dirnen und Narren tummeln sich in seinen Werken.

Each drawing in the Codification of intimacy is based on a chapter, a passage or a key word that Voigt has chosen to distill from Niklas Luhmann's Love as Passion (1982). Voigt began her drawings by first marking those passages in the text that triggered intuitive associations.

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.

Carl Andre – Sculpture as Place examines Carl Andre’s radical redefinition of sculpture as a spatial and experiential condition rather than an autonomous object.

Das Katalogbuch umfasst von vorbereitenden Skizzen bis zu minuziös ausgeführten Studien die unterschiedlichsten Typen von Zeichnungen. Ebenso reich ist das Spektrum der eingesetzten Zeichentechniken, von Silberstift über Kreide und Federzeichnung bis zum Aquarell.

Während seiner 40-jährigen Karriere porträtierte der schottische Fotograf unzählige Film-, Rock- und Politstars für Magazine, schuf Reportagestrecken und fotografierte mehr als 250 Titel für die Mode-Bibel Vogue.

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.

Featuring a wealth of sketches, precision drawings, and computer-generated artwork, as well as a range of styles, concepts, languages, and alphabets, Free Hand illustrates the idiosyncratic creative processes behind the design of typefaces, logos, and word-images.

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

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.

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.

Als ausgebildeter Zeichner arbeitete Adolphe Braun (1812–1877) zunächst für die elsässische Textilindustrie,

'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.

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.

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