Thomas Zander

There are few parts of the world that Christian Maillard (*1944) has not yet seen. His journeys throughout Europe, the United States, South America, the Far East, and Africa have influenced his photographic gaze: for him, travelling and taking photographs have been inseparably connected since childhood. Unadorned and straightforward, his analog black-and-white photographs present reality as he encounters it. Whether people, landscapes, or street scenes, his gaze is always direct, personal, engaging, and makes reference to photographer greats such as Henri Cartier-Bresson or André Kertész.The first monograph by the French photographer includes pictures taken all over the world between 1996 and 2016. An introduction by the FAZ journalist and photo specialist Freddy Langer provides a more specific classification of Maillard's oeuvre.

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Christian Maillard

parks and trees

Eugène Atget & Lee Friedlander

Marvin Hoshino

The most comprehensive publication of Helen Levitt's photographs from the New York subway, many of which are published here for the first time. Helen Levitt's pictures haunt like an intimate ghost - ever present, never forceful, curious, and receptive. In 1938 Levitt accompanied Walker Evans on a number of trips when he photographed passengers on the New York subway and soon she was taking her own shots. More empathetic and informal with a camera, Levittʼs finest photographs came from being present to the world, allowing herself to be seen as a fellow citizen, not as a photographer setting herself apart. The disarming ease of Levittʼs pictures builds up, page after page, into an undeniably singular attitude to the medium and the world. It was around 1978 that Levitt made her return to the subway, a full four decades after that first foray. She seems to have picked up exactly where she had left off in 1938, but in general her photography was less restricted, more in keeping with her looser street photographs. By the 1970s, public behaviour on the subway was much less formal, there was ʻelbow roomʼ. This is the most comprehensive publication of Helen Levittʼs photographs from the New York subway, many of which are published here for the first time.

Subway Photographs of Helen Levitt

Roland Kroemer

Franz Kafka, Erzählungen und Parabeln

Henry Wessel

Containing 133 photographs, this book offers an insight into Wessels work, from his early photographs in the 1960s to his most recent series in Las Vegas, 2000 2004. In Wessels images the idiosyncrasies and anomalies of Southern California and the American West are chronicled with a wry objectivity. Insightful and often ironic, these photographs demonstrate that photography can surpass its documentary role to embrace speculation and suggest narrative. Ultimately the work challenges not only our expectations of the photographic medium, but our ways ofseeing and our preconceptions about the familiar. Wessels remarkable work: witty, evocative and inventive, is distinctive and at the same time a component part of the great development of photography which flourished in the 1970s. The pictures continue to grow and evolve and the work is now regarded as an individual and important contribution to twentieth-century American photography. From the introductory essay by Sandra Phillips, Curator of Photography at The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

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