A-Z Article Index

In this post I share with you 4 of my all time Japanese photobook favorites that you can find on Bildersturm.

This volume presents photographs from Abbey Hepner’s decade-long examination of nuclear energy, the atomic bomb, and radioactive waste.

Abigail Heyman was an American photographer. Her book Growing Up Female became an important text for the feminist movement.

The publication presents a selection of some 150 works by 40 Chinese artists from the collection of the Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung.

This book is a collection of over 180 photos of the inadvertent art created by trashing NYC subway advertising.

Yaga is a photobook about the idea of emancipation of socially excluded women that the system finds inconvenient.

This volume is Al J Thompson’s love letter to his second home of Spring Valley, a once thriving Caribbean immigrant community under threat of gentrification.

This long-term project, by South African photographer Alice Mann, explores the unique sport of drum majorettes.

Flor de Roca proposes an exercise in the search for (the life around) emeralds, tracing a journey through the mystery that surrounds the stone.

After reminiscing with his parents about their newspaper Bingo Today, Miksys embarked on a journey across the U.S. to produce a set of portraits of the people who frequent bingo halls.

The photographs in the book are taken on either side of the Atlantic in places where the Internet is concentrated.

TRANSA, baladas do último sol explores a broad experimental approach in a multidisciplinary body of work that refers to photography, literature, comic book, painting and cinema.

Angelo Bonetti is a visual artist who works with photography, mainly a self-taught photographer who over the years has pursued and developed his own language.

The photozine contains portraits and testimonies of women who attended the vigils for the vote on the law legalizing abortion in Argentina in December 2020, from the first minute to the final vote.

Behind Glass is a series of portraits of primates made over the course of ten years in small zoos throughout Europe.

Anne Morgenstern (*1976 in Leipzig) studied photography in Munich and Zurich, where she lives and works.

Still up-to-date: Annette Messager’s photo series on the image of the body from 1972. It consists of 81 works of which she has made available 40 diptychs in their original formats as gelatin-silver prints.

Photographer Ara Oshagan and author Krikor Beledian grew up in Beirut’s Armenian communities formed by refugees and survivors of genocide.

How to Look Natural in Photos is a book about a totalitarian system which uses photography for its purposes.

Since the 1970s, Bertien van Manen has created intimate and poignant photographs of commonplace scenes.

Am I Not Light comprises a poem and photographs by Bob Farese, Jr. and is designed by Sybren Kuiper.

Mondo Decay is a publication that combine a book by the visual artist Brad Feuerhelm and a music cassette from the band Nun Gun.

In collaboration with A24 Films, Bret Curry presents a photographic journey into the production of A Ghost Story.

In the last five years Camillo Pasquarelli has been working extensively in the valley of Kashmir, India, documenting the political conflict between the population and the Indian administration.

Carlo Rusca (* 1989 in Turin) is a Swiss/Italian photographer and filmmaker. Since 2015, he’s also teaching audiovisual sciences at CSIA in Lugano.

Carol Jerrems (1949–1980) was born and grew up in suburban Melbourne and studied art and design under Paul Cox.

In 1976 Chas Gerretsen was hired by Francis Ford Coppola as the still photographer for his masterpiece Apocalypse Now.

The photographs that Chris Killip made in Northern England between 1973 and 1985 were first published by Secker & Warbur in 1988.

Chris Suspect is a street and documentary photographer who is specialized in capturing absurd and profound moments in the quotidian.

Christer Strömholm (1918–2002) was one of the most influential Scandinavian photographers and the recipient of the 1997 Hasselblad Award.

Cindy Sherman (American, b. 1954) is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential artists in contemporary art.

Kicking Sawdust is a series of photos taken from 1988-1992 while on the road with the circus, carnival and sideshows.

Hidden: Life with California’s Roma Families is the first photography book to feature Romani Americans.

This volume features a selection of 100 photographic works by American artist Cy Twombly that span six decades, from the 1950s until his death in 2011.

Novogen is a project focusing on the eponymous breed of chickens that was developed in order to use its eggs in the production of pharmaceutical products.

In January 1974, David Godlis, then a 22-year-old photo student, took a ten-day trip to Miami Beach, Florida.

Necessary Fictions explores the performance of American power and identity in the post-9/11 era.

Debra Achen explores the vibrant energy she experienced while visiting Stonehenge in her new book.

This trove of recently discovered photographs offers an unprecedented opportunity to take a closer look at Idi Amin’s dictatorship and its impact on Ugandan history.

This book is a reflection of Auschwitz as a historical location and the resulting questions it poses.

With Nini and Carry Hess, the focus is on two outstanding Jewish photographers from the Weimar Republic.

In Come Closer by Dinaya Waeyaert you get to see the love between two wo­men from up close.

This book follows a journey of exploration and documentation of the violence against women and her compromise towards justice.

(1): Martin and Inge Riebeek: The Essential (2020); (2) John Divola: Chroma (2020); (3) No Olho da Rua (In the Eye of the Street) (2020); (4) Vivian Keulards: To Hans (2020).

(1) Yurie Nagashima: Self-Portraits (2020); (2) Carlo Rusca: Turistica (2020); (3) Weegee: Weegee‘s Naked City (2020 Reprint); (4) Melanie Friend: The Plain (2020).

This is Fazal Sheikh and Teju Cole’s acclaimed text–image vision of a compassionate global community.

This volume was issued for an exhibition of female photographers of the Weimar Republic.

Gabriele Galimberti has travelled to every corner of the United States, from New York City to Honolulu, to meet proud gun-owners, and to see their firearms collections.

In Rituals, Berlin-based photographer Gøneja presents an entirely new portfolio of portraits and nudes, exploring deeply subjective and spiritually-charged thematics.

Since 2015, Gui Christ has carried out documentary and editorial works, mixing the creative style of advertising with the narrative of photojournalism in series with marginal realities.

Keep an Eye Shut summarizes thirty years of the activities of Japanese photographer, artist, musician, and model Hanayo Nakajima.

As a co-founder of the photographers’ agency OSTKREUZ, Hauswald is one of the most important figures in German photography.

Helga Härenstam (*1980) is a photographer based in Gothenburg, Sweden. Howling & Humans is published by Journal.

Herlinde Koelbl (born October 31, 1939) is a German photographer and documentary filmmaker. The German Living Room was her first big hit with the general public in 1980.

Electronic Landscapes is a celebration of Detroit’s techno, house and hip-hop music scene.

Issei Suda – My Japan is an introduction to his life’s work, from the 1960s until the publication of his final book in 2018.

Field Test is a further elaboration on Nickerson’s interest in how people inhabit, experience and impact on the world around them, and how their circumstances shape and define their lives.

A new retrospective book and exhibition by photographer James Barnor draw on previously unpublished work.

This is a photographic research on the scientific exploration from the beginnings of alchemy until the present day.

This book presents Baudrillard´s photos together with his collected texts on the theory of photography.

Les enfermés is a book that takes its readers on the other side of our society. Jail, psychiatric hospital, detention centre.

British artist Jet Swan’s first monograph collects together the last three years of the artist’s engagement with members of the public through impromptu studio spaces.

The Czech photographer Jindrich Štreit is an exceptional chronicler and narrator. This publication contains a large set of his famous pictures, but as well unpublished works.

This book is the first to present a comprehensive selection of the work of South African photographer Jo Ractliffe.

Riviera documents the eerie fragments of existence left behind in one city. John Brian King photographed Riviera from 2016 to 2018 in Palm Springs, California, and its surroundings.

Born in 1932 in New York, John Cohen (1932–2019) was a photographer, filmmaker and founding member of the New Lost City Ramblers.

John Divola (born 1949) is an American contemporary visual artist. His images challenge the boundaries between fiction and reality, as well as the limitations of art to describe life.

New work by renowned Californian artist John Divola, celebrated for his idiosyncratic combination of photography, installation, and visual arts.

The Guide includes work from previous books published by RRB Photobooks plus 5 previously unpublished images.

Galerna is a long-running photography project in which Jon Cazenave, born in San Sebastián (Spain) in 1978, questions his identity and his territorial belonging.

What is the state and who represents it? This is the main topic in Jörg Gläscher’s comprehensive visual investigation.

In the mid-nineties, the LAPD was in search of a public image make-over after the Rodney King uprisings. As part of these efforts, the LAPD gave Joseph Rodriguez unprecedented access to document the officers in the field.

In 1985, Karen Marshall began photographing a group of teenagers in New York City.

Katherine Longly (1980, BE) lives and works in Brussels and graduated in photography, communications and anthropology. She pays special attention to actively involve people she works with in the construction of her projects.

Photo Express: Tokyo is a facsimile of the legendary series of twelve booklets published by Keizo Kitajima in 1979.

Anderson-Staley’s tintype portrait work was awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and a Puffin Grant.

Restraint and Desire is the culmination of a lifelong creative partnership between husband and wife Ken Graves and Eva Lipman.

Kim Gordon (born April 28, 1953) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, visual artist, and actress.

Koji Kitagawa has been a member of the SPEW collective with Daisuke Yokota and Naohiro Utagawa.

As the title reminds us, we are always and forever subject to the twin certitudes of transience and change.

Leben und Tod is the latest collaboration between these two seminal photographers and is the culmination of their joint exhibition at artspace AM, Tokyo, in 2019.

(1) Tereza Zelenkova: The Essential Solitude (2) Laura Bielau – Arbeit (3) Clara Prioux – Do You Ever Feel Like Nobody Really Cares.

Following her academic research, Linda Zhengová now brings to the forefront a visual analysis in the form of a photobook.

Published on the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, this portraits recall what it was like to live in New York the following summer.

This publication accompanies the exhibition La saga des inventions, du masque à gaz à la machine à laver at Croisière Arles (1 July – 22 September 2019).

Baylón. Madrid en plata gathers a selection of black-and-white works by the well-known photographer of Madrid Luis Baylón.

This is the story of a heist carried out by a family of smalltime criminals and their circle of endearing crooks.

Mao Ishikawa was born in 1953 in Ôgimi Village, in the northern part of Okinawa.

Since 2015 British documentary photographer Mark Neville has been documenting life in Ukraine.

Ocean Front Property is the new project (photobook + cassette) by Canadian sound artist and photographer Mark Templeton.

Over the course of 92 pages and 50 photographs, Martin Bogren takes us on a metaphysical journey through Kolkata (formerly Calcutta).

In Quarta Persona is the first project realized by the duo Martin Errichiello & Filippo Menichetti.

This is a multi-layered story weaving together family images and photographs with texts written by the artist’s mother.

In 2017, Marvin Böhm’s mother was diagnosed with cancer. From then on, he began to capture his private life with a camera led by his intuition.

Small Things in Silence offers a perspective on twenty years in the career of one of Japan’s most important photographers.

This work felt like an exercise to train the eye, to seek some sort of meaning in the objects, atmospheres and one’s own thoughts.

The main idea of the project was about an eye-object capable of processing images anyway, as much as blind people process visual images in their dreams.

Things We Remember invites viewers into the mysterious, elegant, and compelling world that the New York City-based photographer creates.

Megan Doherty is a photographer currently based in Derry, Northern Ireland.

In the 1980s and early 1990s Melanie Friend worked extensively as a photojournalist, before focusing on the wider aspects of war through long-term photographic projects.

Michael Kerstgens is a professor of photography at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences.

In the summer of 1971, Michael Lesy found most of the snapshots in Snapshots 1971–77 in a dumpster behind a gigantic photo-processing plant in San Francisco.

Michele Sibiloni is an Italian photographer. Nsenene Republic is his ongoing project about grasshopper hunting in Uganda.

This publication presents the photographic work of the first period (1968-1992) by Brazilian artist Miguel Rio Branco.

Mihai Barabancea’s photography is raw, vivid and poetical at the same time. He won the Gomma Prix Award 2017.

In his debut book Mikko Kerttula observes the everyday events at a bus terminal of a small Swedish city of Sundsvall.

Mimi Plumb’s third book focuses on her many years living in San Francisco. The pictures in The Golden City were made between 1984 and 2020.

Everybody’s Atatürk is a visual journey through everyday life in contemporary Turkey.

Odd Time juxtaposes Vrbaški’s austere portraits of women against cryptic forest scenes from the Dalmatian coast.

Sunshine Hotel assembles 175 photos made between 1969 and 2018—more than half previously unpublished.

This book originated out of an exhibition that Moyra Davey organized at Galerie Buchholz in Berlin.

The Banda Journal highlights the legacy of centuries-long colonization and exploitation in the remote Indonesian Banda Islands.

This monograph puts together her editorial, commercial and personal work in one volume.

‘Crossed Looks’ is the first artist monograph featuring the work of Swiss-Guinean artist Namsa Leuba.

Drawn to Macedonia in 1971 by its vibrant folk culture, Neil Folberg spent five months photographing the land and its people.

It is a first part of a global series portraying people and animals that have been impacted by environmental degradation.

Giri Giri is a game of representations on the images conveyed by Japan through different societal archetypes.

In 1994 Goldin and Araki decided to collaborate on a project about adolescents in Tokyo.

Over 15 years Oliver Stegmann visited different circuses to take photos of what happens behind the curtains.

Since 2011, Olivia Lavergne has been working on the perception and metamorphosis of landscapes, both artificial and natural.

This is about falling from innocence into exile, a dark world of claustrophobic interiors, of low life bars and stained streets.

In this new editorial project, Gasparini involved two poets, Alejandro Sebastiani Verlezza and Francesco Tomada.

Pascual Martínez and Vincent Sáez are two Spanish photographers whose focus is on human relations and the study of society through photography as a means of anthropological exploration.

The leitmotif in Odvody’s photography is the human being, their physicality, their movement.

Petra Barth has focused her art on memory, relating to human, social and environmental issues in rural communities worldwide.

An accessible introduction to the history and themes of photographic portraiture.

The book was published in conjunction with the exhibition Photobooks. Art Page by Page, co-curated by Calin Kruse for the GRASSI Museum in Leipzig, Germany.

I Am Warning You is a book-quadtych dedicated to three different border walls: American-Mexican, Hungarian-Serbian-Croatian and the Berlin Wall.

In his recent book Hetjur norðurslóða (Arctic Heroes) Icelandic photographer Ragnar Axelsson takes a poignant look at the fate of the Greenland sled dog.

Following in the legacy of Robert Frank and William Klein, Gibson helped push contemporary photography beyond photography’s traditional bounds of factual documentation.

Ralph Gibson has carried on a lifelong love affair with France, passionately observing and recording the country through its most intimate details..

Mato Grosso by Raquel Bravo is a post-memory work that arises after the encounter with the photographic archive of her father.

Dignity No Matter What: The Light Within is a series of portraits of homeless people along with their stories.

Apiary uses a cinematic lens to uncover the dark underbelly of Lewes, a town in South East England.

10×10 Photobooks’ latest project presents 100 historically significant photobooks by women, as selected by female photography experts.

This illustrated book celebrates Ruth Orkin’s life and work with an extensive overview of this exceptional artist’s oeuvre.

Ryu Ika presents an energetic, almost comic book-like experience with her publication The Second Seeing.

Paradise City follows Sébastien Cuvelier’s search through both the contemporary and ancient landscapes of Iran to locate an elusive, dreamlike version of paradise.

This is the seventh book in a series of titles about Furuya’s wife. In it, he revisits the first and final holidays they spent together before Christine took her own life.

This project surveys the American straight white male’s endless pursuit to sustain power and the institutions that enforce their supremacy.

This book presents an overview of the photographic oeuvre of Japanese mathematician and artist Shigeru Onishi .

In 2016 Sofía Moro received a Leonardo grant from the BBVA foundation to finish her work about the death penalty in five different countries: USA, Japan, Belarus, Malawi and Iran.

Tomorrowsʼ Snow tells a story about cancer, depression and friendship with still lifes, anonymous portraits, medical scans, landscapes and stagings.

Stacy Arezou Mehrfar is a visual artist working across photography, video and bookmaking.

This new paperback edition brings together Lynch’s paintings, photography, drawings, sculpture and installation, and stills from his films.

This series provides a catalogue of the Sloanes, New Romantic and pensioners who once roamed London’s streets.

In his project Circulation: Date, Place, Events Nakahira challenged himself to photograph his surroundings and in the same day exhibit the results for a duration of approximately one week.

For four years Tamara Reynolds immersed herself in the lives of the people existing just above survival on one square block in the shadows of the Drake Motel in Nashville, Tennessee.

The work explores Thana’s journey leaving war-torn Yemen and experiencing the asylum in the Netherlands.

Tim Richmond composes an elegiac, sombre ode to the pressures on small-town England.

Timm Rautert (born in 1941 in Tuchola, then West Prussia) is considered one of Germany’s preeminent contemporary photographers.

Sophus Tromholt (1851–1896) was a teacher and northern lights researcher. Starman is the first book dedicated to his photographs.

“Citiscapes”, photographed by Wüst from 1979 to 1985, is considered as his most important body of work from that period.

This project, coinitiated by Hinz himself, offers a comprehensive overview of his work beyond his well-known series, and themes.

Ward Long is a photographer living in Oakland, California. Working in his home state and the American South, Ward blends a documentary style with personal storytelling.

This revised and expanded edition of Ewald’s now-rare book, first published in 1985, offers access to a different and broadened view of the rural south over the span of 35 years.

A personal yet universal family memoir where a photographer confronts his grandmother’s dementia and tries to make sense of their changing relationship.

In 1977 William Eggleston released Election Eve containing 100 original prints in two leather-bound volumes. This new edition recreates the full original sequence of photos in a single volume.

This is a selection of portraits, taken between 1988 to 2001, and chosen by Tillmans himself.

Dreams Moons is a story in the first person. It mixes photography and text to tell on a journey through a bizarre dream. It takes place within the corridors and rooms of the artist’s house.

Yutaka Takanashi’s Toshi-e (Towards the City) is a landmark two-volume set of books from one one of the founders of the avant-garde Japanese magazine Provoke.

The book Future Perfect is an impressive collection of portraits of prepubescent models photographed by Zosia Prominska.