Jeffrey Ladd

Gerry Badger

Yutaka Takanashi

Gozo Yoshimasu

Toshi-e

Koen Wessing

Pauline Terreehorst

Chili, September 1973

William Klein

Max Kozloff

Trance, Witness, Revels

Life is Good & Good for You in New York

In 2011 the American photographer Jeffrey Ladd moved to Cologne, Germany, and began photographing his surroundings while learning the basics of the German language. In the process, he collected lists of interesting German vocabulary words (professions, places, things, common terms, and the outdated), which he juxtaposes with his black-and-white photographs; two different types of language?one visual, one verbal?describing a sense of his new home. Borrowing the title from Mark Twain, 'The Awful German Language' embraces a state where the combination of word and photograph can resonate or remain dissonant and confused depending on the individual reader. An index of definitions in English at the back of the book is provided as a learning tool, but one that requires some work on the part of the learner to decipher its code.00Jeffrey Ladd (b. 1968 in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania) is an american photographer. His work has been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, Oklahoma City Musuem of Art, International Center of Photography, a.o.

The Awful Germans Language

Edwin Denby

Kerry William Purcell

Alexey Brodovitch

The limited edition book features a reproduction tipped into the cloth cover of the book.

104 Photographs by Alexey Brodovitch

Ballet

Paul Graham

David Chandler

Paul Graham's Beyond Caring published in 1986 is now considered one of the key works from Britain's wave of "New Color" photography that was gaining momentum in the 1980s. While commissioned to present his view of "Britain in 1984," Graham turned his attention towards the waiting rooms, queues and poor conditions of overburdened Social Security and Unemployment offices across the United Kingdom. Photographing surreptitiously, his camera is both witness and protagonist within a bureaucratic system that speaks to the humiliation and indignity aimed towards the most vulnerable end of society. Books on Books #9 presents every page spread of Graham's controversial book along with a contemporary essay by writer and curator David Chandler.--Publisher.

Beyond Caring

Jeffrey Ladd

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