Buchhandlung Walther König

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Struth: Nature & Politics - engl.

This catalogue accompanies a museum exhibition of the latest work of German artist, Thomas Struth. The touring show focuses on photographs Struth has made since his last major retrospective, which ...

S Magazine 8: Ellen von Unwerth

Parr: Real Food

"Real Food" celebrates all things food through the eyes of the renowned British photographer Martin Parr - a kaleidoscope of foods the world over, from hot dogs to sticky buns and langoustine to l ...

Performing for the Camera

The book examines three distinct strands of photographic practice: the documentation of performance works, by artists such as Yves Klein, Yayoi Kusama and Merce Cunningham; how performers and phot ...

Brassai Graffiti

Les photographies comme les textes de l'artiste dégagent l'invention magique des grands thèmes, qui, de mur en mur, résument toute la vie, la naissance, l'amour, la mort, et dont le "primitivis ...

Anthony Hernandez

Trager: New York in the 1970s

The luminous and compelling photographs in New York in the 1970s capture the essence of a city in a way best described as "place portraiture." Trager's images present the architecture of Manhattan ...

Fürst: Philosophie der zweiten Haut

Wer sich für die Geschichte der deutschen Modephotographie interessiert, der kommt um das Studio Fürst, das Peter H. Fürst und sein Partner Ralf Baumgarten von 1960 bis 2000 in Köln führten, ...

Evans: Labour Anonymous (Mängelex.) *

Walker Evans ist einer der wichtigsten Photographen des 20. Jahrhunderts und hat die zeitgenössische Kunst auch über die Grenzen seines Mediums hinaus bis heute maßgeblich beeinflußt. Bereits ...

Morath: On Style

A stunning and diverse collection of Morath's photographs, capturing the glamour and postwar style of the 1950s and 1960s.

The Chinese Photobook - new ed.

In the last decade there has been a major reappraisal of the role and status of the photobook within the history of photography. However, until now, only a handful of Chinese books have made it on ...

Simon: Rear Views

Born in New York in 1975, Taryn Simon is at the forefront of contemporary photography practice. Her artistic medium is based around three equal elements, photography, text and graphic design, whic ...

The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln

First published in 1911, "The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln" was privately printed by Frederick Hill Meserve (1865-1963), the preeminent historian of the photographs of Abraham Lincoln. It was a ...

Fernandes: Angola Cinema

"Angola Cinema" honors the fantastic, unique and unknown architecture of movie theaters in Angola, built in the decades before the end of Portuguese colonial rule in 1975. Initially designed as tr ...

Leutwyler: Ballet - Neuauflage Frühjahr 2015

After four years of collaboration with Peter Martins and the New York City Ballet, Henry Leutwyler was granted unprecedented backstage access to the Company during the winter of 2012. The resultin ...

Expedition Svalbard

In September 2011, a group of scientists, artists and writers embarked on an expedition to North-West Svalbard, the northern extremity of Norway. Travelling on a ship, the M/S Stockholm, each of t ...

Le Gray: Seestücke

Gustave Le Gray (1820-1884) ist einer der Heroen der frühen französischen Photographie. Nicht nur als Wegbereiter innovativer Verfahren, als begnadeter Lehrer einer ganzen Generation französisc ...

Orlopp: nur die Nähe - auch die Ferne

Seit nunmehr sechs Jahrzehnten entwickelt Detlef Orlopp ein äußerst eigenständiges photographisches Werk, das sich ganz der plastischen Vielfalt von Landschaften und Gesichtern widmet. Der Kata ...