Buchhandlung Walther König

Heinecken: Magazines

Robert Heinecken seldom used a camera. A self-described "para-photographer," he repurposed found imagery to explore the underpinnings of daily life. He cut into periodicals-snipping heads from lit ...

De Meyer: Le Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

This is an exacting facsimile-and first re-print overall-of Baron Adolph de Meyer's especially rare book "Le Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune", first published in 1914 in a handcrafted edition ...

Atkins: Photographs of British Algae

Shortly after William Henry Fox Talbot announced his invention of photography in 1839, the dedicated amateur botanist Anna Atkins, daughter of a prominent British scientist, began to experiment wi ...

Czech and Slovak Photo Publications, 1918-1989

This survey of Czech and Slovak photo publications commemorates the hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Republic of Czechoslovakia in 2018. It demonstrates the persistent tradition of sup ...

Banier: Tranquille

This book presents François-Marie Banier's portraits of Parisian construction workers sleeping or at rest in their places of work.

Fruitman: Half-Frame Diary

Half-Frame Diary: End of the Century presents a selection of photos made between 1998 and 2000 from artist Sheva Fruitman's decades-long photo-diary project. These images idiosyncratically mirror ...

Prickett: End of the Caliphate

This book is the result of over a year's work in 2016 and 2017 photographing the military campaign to reclaim Iraq's second largest city, Mosul, from ISIS. Working exclusively for the New York Tim ...

Fosso: SIXSIXSIX

SIXSIXSIX consists of 666 large-format Polaroid self-portraits (each 21.5 x 27 cm), produced in an intensive process by Samuel Fosso with a small team in his Paris studio in 2015 and 2016. Shot ag ...

A Santu Mofokeng Reader

This illuminating collection of texts - with contributions by Rory Bester, Jean-François Chevrier, Joshua Chuang, Patricia Hayes, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, and others - provides an informed basis for e ...

Vitali: Short Stories

After nearly 30 years working in large format photography, Massimo Vitali brings together his 12 "best" photographs in a beautiful volume. The selection of just 12 works was made following many le ...

Freund: Playground Once

In 2003, as David Freund was driving to Missouri to see a 102-year-old friend, she died. Reflecting on their meeting when he was a child, he stopped in Illinois to photograph an old playground. Be ...

Burtynsky: Anthropocene

Anthropocene is the newest book by Edward Burtynsky to document human destruction of the earth on a geological scale. Containing specially commissioned poems by Margaret Atwood published here for ...

Sutkus: Kosmos

This book is a rich overview of Antanas Sutkus' photos of the people of his native Lithuania during its occupation by the Soviet Union.

Holen / Fujiwara: Horses

Das Künstlerbuch wurde von Yngve Holen und mit dem japanischen Photograph Satoshi Fujiwara konzipiert. Holen und Fujiwara, der für seine extremen Close-Ups und eine hohe Sensibilität für Struk ...

Foto-Auge Fritz Block

Als Architekt gehörte Fritz Block (1889-1955) zu den engagierten Vertretern des Neuen Bauens in Deutschland. Ab 1929 brachte er den Impuls der Moderne auch als Photograph zum Ausdruck und trat mi ...

Wyle: Housing Plans for the Future

"Housing Plans for the Future" reveals the complex and ambiguous use of architecture as a means of containment and control within social housing in Belfast. The defensive structures built between ...

Wombat No.33: William Klein

Wombat No.32: Alfred Stieglitz

Sutkus: In Memoriam

Stein: Point of View

A new collection of unseen photographs of New York City's 1970s punk heyday, by one of the icons of the city's golden age of new wave, Blondie's Chris Stein.

Rankin: Unfashionable

A spectacular retrospective of the profoundly influential photographer Rankin's extraordinary thirty-year career on the cutting edge of fashion and pop culture.

Elgort: Jazz

Fashion photographer Arthur Elgort has loved jazz since he was nine years old, when a childhood friend introduced him to the music; he soon found himself frequenting jazz clubs all over his native ...

Paris: Ronis