Text engl. - "Near North is a thought provoking collection of Black and White photographs of Alaska and the Yukon. This edition is printed in rich duotones that showcase a unique force in contemporary photography. The introduction by Veronique Vienne illuminates the meaning of Lloyd Ziff's luminous vision. - When Lloyd Ziff went to Alaska and the Yukon in 2002, he was not prepared for the vastness of the landscape. As a prominent Art Director he had mastered the art of showcasing big pictures on comparatively small pages, and was now confronted with endless vistas that eluded his sense of scale. Yet, strangely enough, these immense panoramas, because of their ambiguous depth of field, looked almost flat to him. Seldom had a scenery been so picturesque indeed so graphically evocative. He approached the task of recording what he saw as if perspective had not been invented yet. He decided to simply frame a view and turn it into a two-dimensional icon. - Ziff s choice to shoot in black and white rather than in color is further evidence that conventional naturalism was not his goal. On the contrary. His Near North landscapes, in shades of silver, charcoal, ivory and gray, have a deliberate abstract quality that encourages viewers to pause, step back, and distance themselves from the view. As a result, his photographs replicate the sense of remoteness one experiences in Alaska and the Yukon when trying to focus on the ever-receding horizon line. - About the Author: As the former Art Director of such prestigious magazines as Vanity Fair, House & Garden and Travel & Leisure, Lloyd Ziff had seen it all. He had seen the world not only through his own eyes but also through the eyes of some of the most talented photographers of the moment. He knew how to look at their pictures, edit them down to just a handful of prints, and lay them out sparingly in such a way as to create arresting visual stories that captured the essence of a place its mood, its people, its climate." (www.abebooks.com/signed-first-edition/Near-North-Photographs-Alaska-Yukon-Ziff/12251680795/bd: seen 02.2018).

Text engl.- Sarajevo Self-Portrait presents the work and words of nine photographers from a country in the aftermath of war. Created with what little film they had, in ruined darkrooms without electricity or running water, the photographs in this book are not only hard proof of the destruction and the suffering of this once-beautiful country but a salute to its indomitable spirit. For a country so brutally torn apart by racial conflict and hate, and for the rest of the world which largely ignored Bosnia's cries for help, Sarajevo Self-Portrait offers an authentic view of Bosnia in a completely new way - through the eyes of those actually living inside it. (www.amazon.com/b/ref=kc_deals-GB-ILM?node=6165845011&pf_rd_p=67497dae-5776-4ab8-a30c-38b2391405cc&pf_rd_s=detail-ilm&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=1884167039&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=WK5AVTHTQ3757N6F6EEC&pf_rd_r=WK5AVTHTQ3757N6F6EEC&pf_rd_p=67497dae-5776-4ab8-a30c-38b2391405cc; seen 02.2018).

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Text engl. - Photographs by Elisabeth Sunday. Essay by Deborah Willis. "For 26 years, Elisabeth Sunday has found her muse in Africa: a place of origins, devastating beauty, great troubles and unyielding expressions of life. She has traveled alone and lived among various original peoples who amidst a changing world, have clung tenaciously to traditional ways of life. From the hunter-gatherers dwelling in the primeval forests of the Congo Basin, to the nomadic tribes inhabiting the vast stretches of the Sahara Desert, Sunday's photographs reveal an interplay of invisible forces that connect her subjects with the world of nature. Utilizing a flexible mirror of her own design, Sunday photographs reflections that blend and dissolve the boundaries between her figures and their environment. Sunday's images express an intimacy with a corresponding strength derived from that relationship. She writes: 'Mirror photography is much more than photographing a reflection, it produces a visual alchemy that combines the physical world with that of the great mystery . and captures some element that remains hidden in straight photography.' Elisabeth Sunday's work has been widely exhibited and collected throughout the United States and abroad. Grace, the artist's first monograph, opens with an eloquent and enlightening essay by Deborah Willis. The book is printed in an oversized format on uncoated art paper and bound in Japanese cloth." (Publisher's text).

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Text engl. - "Christer Strömholm (1918––2002) was one of the great photographers of the 20th century. This book presents his most powerful and acclaimed body of work: Les Amies de Place Blanche, a documentation of transsexual "ladies of the night" in Paris in the 1960s. Arriving in Paris in the late 1950s, Strömholm settled in Place Blanche in the heart of the city's red-light district. There, he befriended and photographed young transsexuals struggling to live as women and to raise money for sex-change operations. Strömholm's surprisingly intimate portraits and lush Brassaï-like night scenes form a magnificent, dark, and at times quite moving photo album, a vibrant tribute to these girls, the "girlfriends of Place Blanche." The photographs were first published in Sweden in 1983."

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