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Eva-Maria Fahrner-Tutsek et al.

About Us
Young Photography in China

What does photography tell us about the lifestyles and mentality in China in the face of the rapid social change? Artists in search of their identity explore the medium of photography experimentally and provide insight into the individual complex ...

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Ed. Walter Moser

Faces - The Power of the Human Visage
Helmar Lerski and Portrait Photography between the Wars

Starting with Helmar Lerski’s outstanding photo series "Metamorphosis through Light" from 1935/36, the magnificent volume "Faces – The Power of the Human Visage" presents portraits from the era of the Weimar Republic. ...

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Ed. Ingo Clauß

Elina Brotherus
Why not?

Diary-like series, landscape photos and situational mood pictures – Elina Brotherus (*1972 in Helsinki) is constantly searching for new possibilities in photography. This lavishly illustrated volume with related essays pursues the latest ...

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Ed. Klaus Kinold

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Barcelona Pavillon / Haus Tugendhat

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is one of the outstanding representatives of the New Building. He achieved legendary fame as the director of the Bauhaus in Berlin and as a teacher at the IIT in Chicago. The pavilion built at the World Exhibition in ...

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Ed. Christoph Wagner

Cinemas
From Babylon Berlin to La Rampa Havana

Lost places of cinema—the photographer Margarete Freudenstadt has dedicated herself to cinema and strikingly captured contemporary history with her camera. Cinemas confronts her melancholic pictures of movie theaters in the former East ...

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Wolfgang Jean Stock

Hermann Hertzberger
Strukturalismus / Structuralism

The architect Herman Hertzberger (*1932) is the most important representative of Dutch Structuralism. This movement, which emerged in 1960, is highly regarded in modern architecture and takes as its starting point an archetypal behaviour of humankind. ...

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Ed. Bridget R. Cooks et al.

The Black Index

The artists featured in "The Black Index" – Dennis Delgado, Alicia Henry, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Titus Kaphar, Whitfield Lovell and Lava Thomas – build upon the tradition of Black self-representation as an antidote to ...

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Ed. Gerda Ridler

Inge Dick

The artist Inge Dick (b. 1941) is one of the famous representatives of contemporary Austrian art. For the past 50 years she has focused on the colour spectrum of natural light. She creates conceptual series of painting, Polaroid photography and ...

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Ed. Draiflessen Collection

Made Realities
Photographs by Thomas Demand, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Andreas Gursky and Jeff Wall

Recognising strangeness in familiar objects, the present in the past, the construed in what is authentic – the four masterly photographers show excerpts from our world in which the boundary between reality and imagination becomes blurred. ...

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Ed. Thomas Zuhr

All the Beauty at Hand
A Brief History of Hirmer Publishers

Founded in 1948, Hirmer Publishers soon established a name for art books produced to the highest standards. Over the past decade they have become equally well-known in English-speaking countries, with a reputation as one of the most prestigious ...

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Eva-Maria Fahrner-Tutsek et al.

About Us

Young Photography in China

What does photography tell us about the lifestyles and mentality in China in the face of the rapid social change? Artists in search of their identity explore the medium of photography experimentally and provide insight into the individual complex worlds of emotions and experiences of their generation.

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Ed. Walter Moser

Faces - The Power of the Human Visage

Helmar Lerski and Portrait Photography between the Wars

Starting with Helmar Lerski’s outstanding photo series "Metamorphosis through Light" from 1935/36, the magnificent volume "Faces – The Power of the Human Visage" presents portraits from the era of the Weimar Republic. The photographs taken by the photographers of the 1920s and 1930s achieved a radical renewal of portrait photography.

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Ed. Ingo Clauß

Elina Brotherus

Why not?

Diary-like series, landscape photos and situational mood pictures – Elina Brotherus (*1972 in Helsinki) is constantly searching for new possibilities in photography. This lavishly illustrated volume with related essays pursues the latest developments. Here the Finnish photo artist combines a keen intellect with humorous lightness and technical precision with joyous spontaneity.

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Ed. Klaus Kinold

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Barcelona Pavillon / Haus Tugendhat

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is one of the outstanding representatives of the New Building. He achieved legendary fame as the director of the Bauhaus in Berlin and as a teacher at the IIT in Chicago. The pavilion built at the World Exhibition in Barcelona in 1929 and the Haus Tugendhat in Brno, completed one year later, became incunabula of Modernism.

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Ed. Hilti Art Foundation

Hilti Art Foundation. The Collection

Vol. 2: Art from 1950 to the Present Day

The private art collection of the Hilti Art Foundation includes over 200 top-quality paintings, sculptures and photographs from Classical Modernism to the present day. Volume 2 of the two-part catalogue of the collection presents 120 selected works from the middle of the twentieth century to the present day, from Josef Albers to Thomas Struth.

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Ed. Tameka Ellington et al.

Textures

The History and Art of Black Hair

The book synthesizes research in history, fashion, art and visual culture to reassess the hair story of peoples of African descent. Long a fraught topic for African Americans and others in the diaspora, Black hair is here addressed by artists, barbers and activists in both its historical perceptions and its ramifications for self and society today.

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Glenn Esterly et al.

Bukowski. The Shooting

By Abe Frajndlich

Charles Bukowski, the "dirty old man" of American literature whose poems and prose are closely interwoven with his life – how does one go about portraying a person like that? In 1985, the young photographer Abe Frajndlich took on this challenge. We can say this much: it was not a job that could be accomplished in one shot. The Shooting presents a photographer’s attempt to zero in on a legend.

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Ed. Angela Lammert et al.

John Heartfield

Photography plus Dynamite

The political collages of John Heartfield (1891–1968) have earned him a reputation as one of the most innovative graphic artists of the Weimar Republic. His photomontages and book covers based on collages which had their origins in Berlin’s Dada scene were directed against Fascism and made him internationally famous. Their explosive power has lost none of its impact.

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Hans-Michael Koetzle

László Moholy-Nagy

The Great Masters of Art

László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946), painter, photographer, Bauhaus teacher and founder of the “New Bauhaus” and the “School of Design” in Chicago, is one of the most important artist personalities of the modern age. As one of the first artists to work in multiple media, who practised painting, sculpture, photography, film and design as equally valid art genres, he set standards which are still relevant today.

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Ed. Ina Fuchs et al.

Juul Kraijer

Zweiheit / Twoness

The publication provides an overview of the fascinating work of the contemporary Dutch artist Juul Kraijer. Her monumental drawings, photographs, sculptures and video works sound out and dissolve the boundaries of the human body and show hybrid creatures between animal and human.

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Ed. Klaus Kinold

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Wolfgang Jean Stock

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Ed. Gerda Ridler

Ed. Draiflessen Collection

Ed. Thomas Zuhr

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Ed. Walter Moser

Ed. Ingo Clauß

Ed. Klaus Kinold

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Hans-Michael Koetzle

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