Photography

Über vier Jahrzehnte prägte Barbara Klemm als Fotografin der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung mit ihren eindrucksvollen Schwarz-Weiß-Aufnahmen das kollektive Bild des politischen und kulturellen Deutschlands der Nachkriegszeit. Ihre Aufnahmen – von den ikonischen Momenten des Mauerfalls 1989 bis hin zu eindringlichen Porträts politischer Größen wie Willy Brandt – sind weit mehr als bloße Dokumente der Zeitgeschichte. Mit ihrem einzigartigen Blick verlieh sie historischen Ereignissen und Personen eine Aura, die bis heute nachwirkt. Das Buch versammelt ihre bedeutendsten Fotografien und zeigt, warum Barbara Klemm als eine der wichtigsten zeitgenössischen Fotografinnen Deutschlands gilt. Ein herausragendes visuelles Zeugnis unserer Geschichte, festgehalten in Bildern, die bleiben.

• Künstlerbuch der renommierten FAZ-Fotografin
• Bildikonen der deutschen Zeitgeschichte

For four decades, Vivienne Silver-Brody has collected photographs of Palestine/Eretz Israel taken from the nineteenth century until the turn of the 21st, creating a multi-faceted photographic narrative of the land. This book presents some three hundred of the most striking photographs in her collection and includes a comprehensive narration of the history of local photography and the unique story of her collection. This is both a tale of many people with shared historical backgrounds relating to the land and a showcase of the potential within photography to encompass the very fabric of life. The diversified perspectives, landscapes, portraits, lifestyles, dress, traditions, and customs manifest in this album, bring to life the history of photography of this land, which is one shared by the peoples that call it home. For the last section of the book, Silver-Brody invited sixty individuals—photographers, scholars, artists, curators, and collectors from different religious, cultural, and national backgrounds—to choose a single photograph from her collection and to write a short essay relating to it. These texts together offer a fascinating and wide-ranging narrative, thus adding significant historical relevance.

• A unique voice that reaches beyond politics and religion
• Presents a photographic history of the Land of Israel as a shared place rather than as disputed territory
• Photographs by Yaacov Ben Dov, Alfons Himmelreich, Hanna Safieh, Drora Spitz, Moi Ver among others

From a small Berlin backyard workshop to a global corporation – Siemens is one of the few industrial companies that can look back on such a long and successful tradition. For over 160 years, the name and brand of “Siemens” represents strength of innovation, top technological achievements, quality, reliability, and international presence. This picture book is not so much about paying tribute to the efforts and accomplishments of Werner von Siemens. Rather, it focuses on the era of the second generation of entrepreneurs and the pioneering days of heavy-current engineering: Its fantastic pictures put the spotlight on selected reference projects in the business sectors of energy, mobility, industry, and communication, showing how Siemens advanced the electrification of infrastructure and everyday life on a global scale. The illustrations convey a vivid and impressive picture of the pioneering feats achieved by this power engineering company between the 1880s and early 1930s in Germany, Europe, Latin America, and Asia.

(Bilingual Edition: English / German)

India is a country with an ancient and extremely multilayered culture. The diversity of cultures and religions is manifested in a topography of architecture and sculptures that is difficult to survey. The photographer Nicolaus Schmidt presents this diversity in highly focused photographs. The book reveals references and kinships between artifacts from various religions and epochs.

The photographs also reflect colonial domination and international cultural relationships, as well as the extreme social contrasts. What arise are standalone artworks that simultaneously highlight the architectural characteristics of buildings and artifacts from antiquity to the modern era. India Tecton is a novel, visually powerful approach to architecture and art in India.