"Chaoskrieger, Orks, Zwerge, Revolverhelden, Freudenmädchen, Zombies, Mutanten, Endzeit-Soldaten und Vampire - der Düsseldorfer Fotograf Boris Leist entführt uns in seinem Bildband LARP in die Welt des Liverollenspiels. Die Spieler in diesem Werk kreieren Charaktere, die im Idealfall die Stärke besitzen, die moderne Welt und das eigene Umfeld auszublenden. Losgelöst von bekannten Strukturen, Regeln und Konditionen tauchen sie in eine fre ..."
"The book combines beautiful large format landscape images with smaller still lifes of objects collected at the sites. The combination of photographs presented in this book operate as literal and metaphorical vanishing points."
Ragnar Axelsson Arctic Heroes by Ragnar Axelsson 300 Pages, Published 2020 by KehrerVerlag ISBN-13: 978-3-96900-007-6, ISBN: 3-96900-007-6
"Arctic Heroes takes a poignant look at the fate of the Greenland sled dog."
"With her latest photographic series Jessica Backhaus examines, universal questions of human existence. Based on her own life story she inquires after the sig- nificance of knowing the roots of one's own existence and to what extent it is possible to re-elaborate these—usually prescribed—roots. With her photographs she symbolically captures the essence of this search and of her life stages. Simultaneously, she pulls off the balancing act ..."
"Finding Bones introduces a newly rediscovered body of work by Grey Crawford. It's an anthology of photographs that embody the creative spirit that was prevalent throughout the Los Angeles art scene at the time. Southern California in the early 1970s was an island of its own creation: a mixture of surf, sea, and concrete highways winding around an ever-changing cultural climate, it challenged assumptions of the definition of art. Crawfor ..."
"DAS AUF AMAZON.DE ANGEGEBENE ERSCHEINUNGSDATUM BEZIEHT SICH NUR AUF USA. DER TITEL IST IN EUROPA AB NOVEMBER 2016 LIEFERBAR, AUCH DURCH AMAZON.DE /THE PUBLICATION DATE INDICATED HERE IS ONLY FOR USA. THIS TITLE IS AVAILABLE IN EUROPE FROM NOVEMBER 2016, ALSO ON AMAZON.DEFrom 1987 to 1991, Jeffrey Wolin made hundreds of portraits showing residents of Bloomington's, Indiana, housing projects, known as "Pigeon Hill." At the time there was ..."
"DAS AUF AMAZON.DE ANGEGEBENE ERSCHEINUNGSDATUM BEZIEHT SICH NUR AUF USA. DER TITEL IST IN EUROPA AB NOVEMBER 2016 LIEFERBAR, AUCH DURCH AMAZON.DE /THE PUBLICATION DATE INDICATED HERE IS ONLY FOR USA. THIS TITLE IS AVAILABLE IN EUROPE FROM NOVEMBER 2016, ALSO ON AMAZON.DEBoth funny and moving, the book addresses changing realities between generations in a visually captivating life of privilege. Images of Sage Sohier's mother in her youth ..."
"1996 genehmigte die argentinische Regierung den Anbau transgener Sojabohnen undden Einsatz von Glyphosat-Herbiziden auf genetisch modifizierten Nutzpflanzen, wobeisie sich ausschließlich auf Studien der Firma Monsanto verließ. Nach fast zwei Jahrzehnten, in denen ein Drittel der Landesbevölkerung direkt oder indirekt von Glyphosat-Spritzmitteln betroffen war, ist Argentinien zu einer Feldstudie für Giftkatastrophengeworden. Hunderte wis ..."
"This book compiles Frank Day's multivalent series of photographs of Bangkok's battered public phone booths. Seen as if magnets for the detritus of daily life in a metropolis, Day's intimate yet subtly epic images register traces of the demands that govern our urban existence: postings for job adverts, signs of commercial pleasure, and listings for entertainment spectacles, or social advancement opportunities. Many of the markings in the ..."
"GRAVITY IS STRONGER HERE is a creative nonfiction montage made from photographs by award-winning photographer Phyllis B. Dooney and docu-poems by critically acclaimed writer Jardine Libaire; it’s a book about looking for America in America. In 2011, Dooney visited Greenville, Mississippi, starting a five-year-long documentary project featuring Halea (who is openly gay) and her dynamic Southern American family.Greenville is a key tile in ..."
"Everyday Africa combats the cliches that depict Africa as a place of only poverty, disease, and war. Featuring the finest images from the acclaimed social media project, the book showcases photos of ordinary life that find beauty in stories rarely seen, shifting perception from the sensationalized extremes to a more textured, familiar reality.Photographs run alongside sections of Instagram commentary inspired by the images. Shocking, fu ..."
Telling Time Rencontres de Bamako Biennale Africaine de la Photographie (English and French Edition) by Antawan I. Byrd, Yves Chatap, Bisi Silva, KehrerVerlag Hardcover, 488 Pages, Published 2016 by KehrerVerlag ISBN-13: 978-3-86828-669-4, ISBN: 3-86828-669-1
"The publication features images and essays on almost seventy artists, and chronicles the event's twenty-year history through essays, interviews, and archival documentation including a complete reprint of the catalog that accompanied the Bamako Biennale's 1994 inaugural edition. It serves as an invaluable compendium of contemporary photography in Africa.DAS AUF AMAZON.DE ANGEGEBENE ERSCHEINUNGDATUM BEZIEHT SICH NUR AUF USA. DER TITEL IST ..."
"Irrational images flash through our minds all the time, in dreams and daydreams. Ahndraya Parlato's work imagines an oscillation between these "internal" and "external" images, revealing the possibilities of different realities. Combining ten years' worth of images, this book draws on Parlato's experience of being raised by a single mother who was mentally ill. Parlato was put in the position of having to decide whether her mother's obs ..."
"Like many of his contemporaries, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938) was fascinated by the possibilities of photography and exploited them in various ways. In his work there is a noticeable interdependency of photography and visual arts that allows as to speak of an almost "photographic pictorial conception."The catalog assembles a selection of about 140 photographic works and presents examples of all genres in which Kirchner worked: from ..."
Short Stories(1st Edition) Recreated Scenes from America During the 1960s and 1970s by Matt Henry, KehrerVerlag Hardcover, 112 Pages, Published 2016 by KehrerVerlag ISBN-13: 978-3-86828-670-0, ISBN: 3-86828-670-5
"Henry's artistic practices focus on the politics of America during the 1960s and 1970s. The works take the form of fictional narrative scenes staged across set-builds and dressed locations, where Henry employs his own prop and costume styling, storyboarding, and set design. The use of light and color in Henry's photographs is masterly, the perfection of his protagonists and still lives alluring, yet he maintains an ambiguity that challe ..."
""In my experience, the two most significant characteristics of war are horror and absurdity," says Christoph Bangert, the German photojournalist who has been documenting crises for international publications such as the New York. Following his examination of the way our society deals with graphic images in his critically acclaimed book "War Porn "(Kehrer 2014), in his new book he confronts the bitter absurdity of war. He opposes our cli ..."
"As criticism of the US education system grows among parents, so does the appeal of homeschooling. After moving to Woodstock, New York, Rachel Papo began to photograph a small number of families living in the region who follow this path. While much of the discussion about the subject revolves around parents and their beliefs, she chose to focus on the lives and routines of the children, in an attempt to capture their spirit and the meani ..."
"KayLynn Deveney's photographs explore "Cinderella-style" homes built throughout the American Southwest in the 1950s and '60s, when developers applied fairy tale-style aesthetics to ranch house exteriors. This book, the first time these houses are subject of a published photographic work, highlights personalized details outside the home resulting in photographs that reach beyond description to become metaphorical family portraits of thos ..."