A-Z Article Index

(1) Laura Larson: City of Incurable Women (2) Teo Becher: Charbon Blanc (3) Antigone Kourakou: Transfiguration

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

(1) Dani Pujalte: Prai$e the Lord (Witty Books, 2022) (2) Cate Dingley: Ezy Ryders (The Artist Edition, 2022) (3) Mitch Epstein: Silver + Chrome (Steidl, 2022)

(1) Emily Graham: The Blindest Man (2) Viktoria Binschtok: Connection (3) Philipp Mueller: 120 bpm.

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.

From Berlin to Saint Petersburg, via Odessa or Italy, the place of this book is ultimately the night.

Over a period of two years, Tomlinson documented the traditional costumes and masks worn during festivals and celebrations on the islands of the Venetian lagoon, Sicily and Sardinia.

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

Andrea Diefenbach’s images from the rural regions of the Republic of Moldova are a journey through time to a place that has been in an identity crisis since its independence 30 years ago.

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.

Photographer Annemarieke van Drimmelen (b. 1978, Dutch) and painter Jasper Krabbé (b. 1970, Dutch) have dedicated their new book to their two year old daughter, June.

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.

Ben Brody’s latest photobook 300m is a panoramic journey through the height of the American war in Afghanistan, framed in the context of the fall of Kabul and the ties that remain with friends and colleagues who currently live under Taliban rule.

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.

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.

​ In his new series, Clément Chapillon explores the notion of geographical and mental isolation through an island space in the Aegean Sea.

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

Klara and the Bomb is a photographical and historical work that charts connecting threads between the invention of modern computers, the history of nuclear weapons and, in particular, the narratives of the women involved.

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.

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.

The period around 1980 was a phase of profound upheaval. A global arms race, rampant environmental destruction and rising unemployment fueled a general mood of doom, but also provided a boost to creativity.

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.

A photo-text book, The Ecology of Dreams is a compendium of Los Angeles’ psychological landscape.

(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.

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

This retrospective of the life’s work of the great photo enthusiast and publisher Hansgert Lambers shows images from seven decades that the artist took in Barcelona, Berlin, London, Ostrava, Paris and Prague.

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

Harri Pälviranta is a Finnish photographic artist and researcher. At the core of his artistic curiosity are issues relating to violence and masculinity.

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.

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.

Far – Near is a visual journey to the far geographical corners of Europe and to its very center. The four corners are Iceland to the north west, the northern Ural mountains to the north east, the Caucasus to the south east and Portugal to the south west.

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.

This is the first significant publication devoted to the work of Jin-me Yoon, one of Canada’s most preeminent artists.

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.

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.

This Is Bliss is a transmedia narrative project investigating the vanishing roadside geography and culture of a rural Idaho town named Bliss.

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.

Freedom Tastes of Reality is a celebration of our bodies in the era of the disembodiment of all human relations and an exploration of individual freedom.

German photographer Ilse Bing (1899-1998) has secured her place as one of the major photographers of the 20th century. Her pioneering images during the inter-war era reveal a modern vision influenced by the impact of both the Bauhaus and Surrealism.

For her third monograph, Midwest Materials, Julie Blackmon has created a new body of work that sparkles with the wit, dark humor, and irony for which the artist has gained such renown.

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.

The book presents three work groups by Katja Eydel all based on online research on commercial or promotional photography.

Kavi Pujara began to photograph the neighbourhood around Leicester’s Golden Mile as a way to reconnect with the city, its residents and his own past after 30 years of living in London.

Melody of light is a result of the artist’s six-week stay in Wroclaw – her moving freely among a variety of places and people, themes and contexts.

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.

Larry Towell photographed the Old Colony Mennonites in rural Ontario and Mexico between 1990 and 1999. The resulting black and white photographs formed Towell’s landmark book, The Mennonites, first published in 2000.

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.

Depravity’s Rainbow dealts with the contradictory history of space exploration, and the way that militaristic aims have often been dressed in a cloak of peaceful civilian science.

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

Glitter Blues describes the world of Sicilian transvestites living and working in Catania’s neighbourhood San Berillo, that has always been the red-light district.

Quinn by photographer, artist and writer Lottie Davies is a prescient and timely meditation on grief, loss, loneliness, the search for meaning, and the possibility of redemption through time and landscape.

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.

Carpe Diem gathers together two of Luo’s seminal series – Girls and Youth – alongside miscellaneous photographs shot throughout the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s.

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.

The first sightings of newly discovered work from Saul Leiter’s abundant archive of colour slides.

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.

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.

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.

In this unconventional, lyrical biography, Lesy traces Evans’s intimate, idiosyncratic relationships with men and women—the circle of friends who made Walker Evans who he was.

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.

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.

As her father gradually loses his sight due to glaucoma, artist Moe Suzuki begins to document the daily life they share together.

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.

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

Nhu Xuan Hua delved into the power of memories in a piece of work titled “Tropism, Consequences of a Displaced Memory.”

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.

Five continents, three decades: with Walking Distance, Olaf Unverzart presents his interpretation of a travel diary.

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

Last Day in Lagos is a focused study on a singular African American photographer, through an archival encounter with her documentation of the landmark FESTAC’77 festival.

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.

Ernst Haas (1921-1986) is acclaimed as one of the most celebrated and influential photographers of the 20th century and considered one of the pioneers of color photography.

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.

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.

Richard Misrach is one of the most influential photographers of his generation. In the 1970s, he helped pioneer the renaissance of color photography and large-scale presentation that are in widespread practice today.

Irish artist Richard Mosse’s most ambitious work to date, Broken Spectre, is a powerful response to the devastating and ongoing impact of deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest. It employs a dazzling array of photographic techniques.

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

Graubard’s intimate and striking colour approach to photography found a voice of its own when she packed up and embedded herself within Eastern Europe during the early nineties.

Named after the Hebrew term referring to the Holy Land, Ha Aretz is a reinterpretation of the biblical stories amidst a globalized world of alien­ation and conflict.

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.

The Sniper Paused So He Could Wipe His Brow is something like a journey. Fifteen years, twenty countries, ninety-five images, three parts.

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 .

Wuhan Radiography is a surprising series of black and white analog images taken by Belgian photographer Simon Vansteenwinckel.

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.

Since 2010 Thomas Boivin has been making contemplative black and white photographs of his Parisian neighbourhood and the people who live there.

Over twelve years, Thomas Rousset has probed every corner of his family village to create a surrealistic yet tender docu­fiction of its inhabitants.

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.

Unpublished images by Ursula Schulz-Dornburg capturing the improvised structures of a radical playground built by children in 1960s Amsterdam.

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.

Between the year 849 and the present, Myanmar has had an astounding 22 capitals, while the seat of government has changed 39 times. Vast Land by Wolfgang Bellwinkel is a photographic study of the country‘s last three capitals: Mandalay (1857–1885), Yangon (1885–2005) and Naypyitaw (since 2005).

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

The publishing project brings together the author’s photographs, paintings and personal archive to bring out the essential elements of her wide-ranging and heterogeneous research.

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.