With Nini and Carry Hess, the focus is on two outstanding Jewish photographers from the Weimar Republic. This volume presents the biography and work of the Frankfurt sisters with focus on portrait and theater photography.
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Jean-Christophe Hanché: Les enfermés
Les enfermés is a book that takes its readers on the other side of our society. Jail, psychiatric hospital, detention centre. Based on Jean Christophe Hanché’s photographic observations, photographer and controller for the deprived freedom places, this book is instructive, sincere and shocking by the revelation of the real life conditions, often unworthy, inside these almost invisible places.
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Neil Folberg: A Mirror in Macedonia
Drawn to Macedonia in 1971 by its vibrant folk culture, Neil Folberg received a fellowship from the University of California at Berkeley to spend five months photographing the land and people of this rugged, mountainous land, then part of Yugoslavia.
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Michael Lesy: Snapshots 1971–77
In the summer of 1971, Michael Lesy and a friend found most of the snapshots in Snapshots 1971–77 in a dumpster behind a gigantic photo-processing plant in San Francisco. By the end of the summer, he’d formed his own collection of images of American life.
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Jo Ractliffe: Photographs 1980 – now
This book is the first to present a comprehensive selection of the work of South African photographer Jo Ractliffe. Looking back over the past 35 years, it brings together images from major photo-essays, as well as early works that have not been seen before.
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Ruth Orkin: A Photo Spirit
Published on the occasion of the photographer’s 100th birthday, this illustrated book celebrates the Orkin’s life and work with an extensive and fascinating overview of this exceptional artist’s oeuvre.
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Paddy Summerfield: Home Movie
Paddy Summerfield’s Home Movie tells the oldest story, the saddest story, a story that includes the story-teller. It is the Fall of Man, falling from innocence into exile, a dark world of claustrophobic interiors, of low life bars and stained streets, of casual fornication in shabby bed and breakfast rooms.
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Stacy Arezou Mehrfar: The Moon Belongs to Everyone
Stacy Arezou Mehrfar is a visual artist working across photography, video and bookmaking. Her second photobook, The Moon Belongs to Everyone, published by GOST Books, was released in Spring 2021.
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