The present examination by collector Markus Kramer focuses instead for the first time on the unique pictorial vocabulary Thomas Ruff has developed, which with its powerful and complex aesthetic demonstrates – while consistently reflecting on its medium – how the use of photography can be freed from its traditional patterns of application.

ISBN 978-3-86828-264-1
39,80 Euro
2011

Since 2008 photographer Andrej Krementschouk took several trips to Chernobyl, venturing into the restricted area around the reactor. While "Zone Chernobyl (I)" shows pictures he took of the rural landscape, this volume presents his photographs of the deserted urban zone.

ISBN 978-3-86828-210-8
28 Euro
2011

This publication shows the visual dynamics of Arab photography in all its fascinating beauty, revealing a rich new aesthetics. We see portraits and landscapes by 36 photographers creating works of great political and cultural relevance.

ISBN 978-3-86828-189-7
36 Euro
2011

Sports define our society, our identity, our passions, and, for better or worse, even our wardrobes. Whether cheering for their pro football team or playing ball in a local pickup game, nearly everyone has an attachment to some form of sport.

ISBN 978-3-86828-219-1
30 Euro
2011

Distilling six years of travel across the former Soviet Union, these images, reminiscent of Tarkovsky and the vision of W. G. Sebald, portray two intertwining dreamtimes: Moscow and the provinces.

ISBN 978-3-86828-237-5
36 Euro
2011

Alex Katz (*1927 in Brooklyn) is one of the foremost representatives of American painting in the international art world. In New York in the 1950s, his large-format, stencil-like portraits and landscapes set a striking counterpoint to Abstract Expressionism.

ISBN 978-3-86828-256-6
39 Euro
2011

A woman who cannot feed a man is worthless.
Saying from Ise-Shima

Everyone in Japan knows them as »Ama-San,« a title that conveys a great deal of affection and admiration – and yet, even in the big cities, hardly anyone is aware of what these courageous and independent women of the seas are actually capable of. At an average age of 60, they make their living by hunting abalone, a delicacy prized particularly in East Asia.

ISBN 978-3-86828-251-1
48 Euro
2011

The quiet, nearly monochromatic photographs in the new series Winterwald by Emanuel Raab display the rich forms of a natural space that only reveals itself in the winter months. Like a filigree drawing, the finely articulated lines of the underbrush, scrub and branches intertwine to form a detailed surface structure that settles down like a web atop the natural space, obscuring our view into the depth. Despite allobjectivity in observation, a romantic view of nature filters through in these subtly composed forest pictures.

ISBN 978-3-86828-241-2
36 Euro
2012

A silent observer, Andreas Meichsner documents in his photographs how that vacation we’ve been waiting for so long has a way of plunging us into an agonizing tug-of-war between the contradictory need for freedom on the one hand and security on the other. The reassuring words All Sorted (Alles in Ordnung) stand for a fevered »organizing« of the yearned-for and yet also somehow menacing liberation from workaday life – with the paradoxical result that even vacation time ends up being packed full of structured activities.

ISBN 978-3-86828-242-9
36 Euro
2011

This opulent catalog, which accompanies the major exhibition Death and Beauty. Animal Still Lifes from the Renaissance to Modernism at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, guides readers for the first time through the multifaceted history of game and animal still life painting from the 16th to 20th centuries.

ISBN 978-3-86828-257-3
48 Euro
2011

On the cover of »Back to Mama«, a pretty young woman dressed in 1950s style looks expectantly toward the future with a broad smile. How things turned out is revealed in the 129 pictures that follow, snapshots from the life of her son, photographer Sven Jacobsen.

ISBN 978-3-86828-263-4
48 Euro
2011

Jörg Gläscher’s laconic photographs of the German Army show that nothing is what it seems anymore. (...) His photographs don’t document the German Army; instead, he finds images created in the course of the journeys he has undertaken to, and with, the armed forces that open up room for thought

ISBN 978-3-86828-266-5
36 Euro
2011

Over a period of several years, Polish photographer Rafał Milach accompanied with his camera seven young people living in the Russian cities of Moscow, Yekaterinburg and Krasnoyarsk.

ISBN 978-3-86828-265-8
30 Euro
2011

Following the typical geographical travel route at the end of the 19th century, the catalog presents the Japanese island world as mirrored in historical travel photography.

ISBN 978-3-86828-269-6
36 Euro
2011

Swiss artist Nelly Rudin (born 1928) is one of the most important representatives of the second generation of concrete artists in Zurich.

ISBN 978-3-86828-273-3
30 Euro
2011

Eckart Hahn listens to audio books while he paints, favoring bizarre tales, horror stories and suspenseful detective novels. This literary influence flows into his intuitive selection of motifs, and colors the moods of his pictures, whose surreal poetic power exerts a captivating effect on the viewer

ISBN 978-3-86828-281-8
30 Euro
2011

In her photographs and films, Karen Irmer takes us to the boundaries of the perceptible. She reduces her pictorial means to a minimum – so much so that we are no longer able to trust our senses

ISBN 978-3-86828-299-3
28 Euro
2012