'Ellen Thorbecke – From Peking to Paris' vertelt het verhaal van Ellen Thorbecke (1902-1973), die een unieke positie in de internationale fotografie innam. Het boek toont een zeldzaam beeld van het dagelijks leven in Beijing, Shanghai, Hongkong, Parijs en het Midden-Oosten in de jaren dertig en veertig. Plekken waar Thorbecke gedurende haar leven heeft gewoond en gewerkt en die de leidraad vormen van het boek.

In 1931 vertrok Ellen Thorbecke naar China. Voor deze reis schafte ze haar eerste...

For 12 years, photographer Jon Kolkin traveled to Buddhist centers across Asia, capturing the everyday life of monks and nuns on camera. Text in English and German.

This book tells the extraordinary story of what later became known as the “CIA’s Secret War” in the Asian country of Laos in the 1960s and 1970s. It was the largest clandestine CIA operation to this day. A guerrilla army of Hmong people fought against the North Vietnamese communist-supported Pathet Lao. While the war in next-door Vietnam was widely covered by the media, the Secret War was decidedly not. Reporters who came to investigate rumors about a war were turned away at gunpoint—...

150 photographs from the 1950s on the Cote d'Azur, showing stars and celebrities on the street, at gala evenings, and in private moments. text in English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian.

How can you find your way back into society after an intense period of drug use? How does it affect your relationships with friends and family? Why do so many succeed at it, while others remain stuck in their situation? And why do women experience more mental health problems than men during recovery?

This book is the result of a participatory photovoice project with eight women. It provides intimate insight into their personal recovery pathways: ‘(re-)building me’, ‘untangling what’s...

((Please scroll down for English version)) Das Châlet - im Sinne der luxuriös-romantischen abgelegenen Berghütte, in der »splendid isolation« einer sonnenverwöhnten Winterlandschaft ist eines der beliebteren Klischeebilder der Schweiz. Die eigentliche Bedeutung des Begriffes »Châlet« (von lat. cala, geschützter Ort) ist aber einfach nur Sennhütte oder Unterstand. Auf vielen Reisen durch seine Wahlheimat ist Patrick Lambertz immer wieder Häusern begegnet, die sich dem typischen Kli...

Like no other, the Thomas Walther Collection at the MoMA captures the imaginative spirit of early 20th-century photography, a time of dynamic circulation of ideas and daring aesthetic experimentation.

An intimate collection of family photographs by over 50 photographers.

A comprehensive look at a wide variety of tropical forests, photographed in 20 countries on four continents. Text in English and German.