Strömungen, 1944 (card)
Werner Bischof
Published by Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, date unknown, card (b/w ill.), 15 × 10.8 cm, French
Price: €10

The Swiss photographer Werner Bischof started his career in studio photography in Zürich and later documented Europe in the aftermath of World War II. He joined the famous photographers group Magnum Photos in 1949 and travelled the world.

Disliking the ‘superficiality and sensationalism of the magazine business, he devoted much of his working life to looking for order and tranquility in traditional culture, something that did not endear him to picture editors looking for hot topical material. Bischof died at the early age of 38 in a car accident in the Andes of Peru.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and may have some traces of previous ownership.

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Glasaugen (Card)
Herbert Bayer
Published by Gebr. König, Köln, date unknown, card (b/w ill.), 10.5 × 14.7 cm, German
Price: €7

Artistic polymath Herbert Bayer was one of the Bauhaus’s most influential students, teachers, and proponents, advocating the integration of all arts throughout his career.

Most of Bayer’s photographs come from the decade 1928–38, when he was based in Berlin working as a commercial artist. They represent his broad approach to art, including graphic views of architecture and carefully crafted montages.

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Dancing Horizon
Sigurdur Gudmundsson
Published by Crymogea, Reykjavík, 2014, 222 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 24 × 30 cm, English
Price: €70 (Out of stock)

Dancing Horizon is a comprehensive collection of the photographic work of Icelandic artist Sigurdur Gudmundsson, focusing on a critical period in his development. In the 1970s Gudmundsson made a famous series of conceptual photographs he called Situations, in which the artist is posed with various props–for example, balancing a wooden slat on his head to make visual contact with the horizon in the background, or digging himself into the grass.

Signed by the artist.

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1:1
Nat Faulkner
Published by Camden Art Centre, London & Brunette Coleman, London, 2026, 198 pp. (b/w ill.), 24.5 × 30.5 cm, English
Price: €35

Produced on the occasion of Nat Faulkner’s exhibition Strong water at Camden Art Centre, 16 January–22 March, 2026.

1:1 presents an extensive series of hand-produced contact prints by the artist, derived from a single large format image taken by Faulkner of a peppered moth (Biston betularia) – a widely studied example of ‘industrial melanism’. During the Industrial Revolution soot from factories darkened the bark of trees and through a process of natural selection the lighter form of this moth, once well-camouflaged, became more visible to predators and its numbers diminished. Meanwhile, a darker (melanic) variant became more common, due to being better camouflaged against the soot darkened trees. This phenomena, the artist has observed, holds resonances with the processes of photography itself – in the production of positive and negative images.

With texts from Gloria Hasnay and Sean Steadman. Designed by George Haughton.

#2026 #brunettecoleman #georgehaughton #gloriahasnay #natfaulkner #photography
Scully’s Run
Frederik Worm
Published by s/z, Copenhagen, 2025, 104 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 22 × 24 cm, English
Price: €32

Scully’s Run is a new photographic monograph by Frederik Worm, accompanied by texts from Dora Budor and Alexandra Symons-Sutcliffe. Through a series of subtle and sensous images, Worm constructs a visual language attuned to dislocation, attention and the fragility of spatial belonging. The publication considers the movement not only through space, but through the image itself as a conscious relational act. In a world where the conditions of ‘home’ feel increasingly unstable, Scully’s Run proposes a way of seeing that could be both resistant and tender. Designed by stanza.

#2025 #alexandrasymonssutcliffe #dorabudor #frederikworm #photography #sz #stanza
Arthur Rimbaud in New York (Coney Island) (card)
David Wojnarowicz
Published by Gebr. König, Köln, date unknown, card (b/w ill.), 14.7 × 10.5 cm, German
Price: €16 (Out of stock)

Arthur Rimbaud in New York, one of David Wojnarowicz’s incursions into photography, is the articulation of a testimony to urban, social and political change in New York.

Wojnarowicz, using the figure of the accursed poet as the only way for an artist to intervene in reality, chronicles his own life and his emotional relationship with New York City in the late 1970s. The artist portrays a number of friends with a life-size mask of the French poet Arthur Rimbaud, thereby taking on his identity and highlighting the parallels in their lives: the violence suffered in their youths, the feeling of being denied freedom, the desire to live far away from the bourgeois environment and the fact of their homosexuality.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and may have some traces of previous ownership.

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