This publication on Joan Mitchell (19251992) allows us to rediscover an artist whose life's work-with its anarchistic conception, urge for freedom, and energy-filled gestures and colors-is every bit as compelling as that of her male peers. Between 1950 and 1955, Mitchell, as a recognized member o...

This richly illustrated book features current works of internationally reputed street artists, including Banksy (United Kingdom), Boxi (United Kingdom), Brad Downey (United States), Mark Jenkins (United States), Daniel Man (United Kingdom/China/Germany), Mirko Reisser (Germany), Tilt (France), Os...

"Turning points, in-between states, a beautiful kind of limbo that tugs at the heart and suggests stories of loss and remembrance. That is what photographs are, after all, memorials that stop time and hold it for a moment, for our contemplation. If Backhaus's photographs are partly memorials to l...

Andrej Krementschouk portrays his Russian homeland, where he is not at home anymore. In haunting images, he asks the ever-pertinent question of what is remembered and what is lost, seeking evidence of emotional rootedness and cultural identity:

I have to share something about this mod...

With Summer Heart, German photographer Thekla Ehling (born in 1968) keeps pace with the growing up of her children and friends. She documents situations and moods so that the viewers find themselves entangled in connotations and memories of their own childhoods. Ehling's pictures often sho...

Pars Pro Toto II was, like the first volume in 2008, developed in the course of a close dialogue between the German Egyptian artist Susan Hefuna and the editor, Hans Ulrich Obrist. It presents Hefuna’s recent body of work.

Susan Hefuna’s work has been widely...

Runa Islam's films are replete with vivid images that enthrall the viewer with their poetry. Using and reflecting on the medium of film is a pivotal part of her work. In detailed interviews with the artist, this book sheds light on her work during the last five years.

Runa Islam was ...

Fifty years after Robert Frank's The Americans, the German photographer André Lützen sets off on his own odyssey through everyday life in America. His road trip takes us from Colorado to Mississippi. The series radiates Lützen's own singular style: documentary photography that der...