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The Capital Berlin 1984–1989
günter Steffen
2021 || Hardcover || Yevgeny Zamyatin e.a. || Hartmann Books
((Please scroll down for English version)) In Anlehnung an den Ausspruch des französischen Filmregisseurs Robert Bresson »Mach sichtbar, was vielleicht ohne dich nie wahrgenommen worden wäre«, fotografierte der Berliner Fotograf Günter Steffen zwischen 1984 und 1989 einen beeindruckenden Zyklus über Ostberlins Mitte in der er damals lebte und arbeitete. Meistens in den frühen Morgenstunden streifte er durch scheinbar unberührte und leere Straßen, Plätze, Hinterhöfe, Ruinen und an d...
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Sacred Spaces
The Holy Sites of Buddhism
2021 || Hardcover || Christoph Mohr e.a. || Persell Trading
A book of travel photography and a visual introduction to the life of the historical Buddha, featuring more than 240 photographs of Buddhist culture across Asia.
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Ellen Thorbecke - From Peking to Paris
2021 || Hardcover || Ruben Lundgren e.a. || Lecturis
'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...
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This is not about pigeons
Hades and the rise of the platforms
Paperback || Jos Jansen || The Eriskay Connection
Hades was a powerful god in classical Greek mythology. His ‘Helmet of Darkness’ enabled him and the other gods to be invisible during their sometimes-ambiguous quests. Therefore, the helmet became proverbial for those who conceal their true nature... Digital platforms such as Uber, Amazon, Tinder and Airbnb, with their invisible Hades-esque algorithms, have drastically changed social structures and human behaviour — and not always for the better. They have given a completely new mea...
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Flisvos
Paperback || Bernadette Mergaerts || The Eriskay Connection
Flisvos is a Greek word meaning “the soft sound of a small wave gently hitting the shore”. When visiting the Greek island of Corfu in the winter of 2015, Mergaerts (BE) noticed that, in spite of the cold, many people were swimming at various places along the shoreline. She was impressed that the bathers — all adults, some of them retired — seemed to find peace in the Ionian sea. During the following years, Mergaerts learned more and more about the lives of the winter swimmers....
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Inner Harmony
Living in Balance
Hardcover || Jon Kolkin || Persell Trading
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.
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Photography Fifth Edition
a Cultural History
2022 || Paperback || Mary Warner Marien || Laurence King Publishing
The fifth edition of this indispensable history of photography spans the history of the medium, from its early development to current practice, and providing a focused understanding of the cultural contexts in which photographers have lived and worked throughout, this remains an all-encompassing survey. Mary Warner Marien discusses photography from around the world and through the lenses of art, science, travel, war, fashion, the mass media and individual photographers. Professional, amateur ...
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John Willheim. War of Whispers - Inside the CIA’s Secret War
2022 || Hardcover || John Willheim || Hartmann Books
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—...
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Michael Kerstgens. 1986
zurück in die Gegenwart/Back to the Present
Hardcover || Michael Kerstgens || Hartmann Books
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Riviera Cocktail
Hardcover || Edward Quinn || Persell Trading
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.