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Just unpacked! New arrivals

Featuring a photographic portrait of the world at the beginning of the 20th century and intimate portraits of Louise Bourgeois in the final years of her life. Further: Roger Ballen, Lucian Freud, Mies van der Rohe, Hilma af Klint, Taryn Simon...

Rare Photobook milestones now accessible to everyone

„I found it absurd that most of the photobooks that are now considered the greatest or most influential books the medium has produced over the past 150 years are unavailable to students and newer generations of photographers because of their extreme rarity or value.

Photobooks were, and continue to be, vital to my own education and maturity as an artist, and I hope that this book series can inspire…

This week's bargain: A big book on art in Florence for only € 29,95

A magnificent, never-before-published collection of every painting and fresco on display in the Uffizi, the Galleria Palatina of the Pitti Palace, the Accademia, and the Duomo, and more – nearly 2,000 works of art – all presented in a beautiful slipcased package.

This stunning showcase of the art capital of the world also includes two removable posters of Florence – one from the Renaissance…

Modern Masters: Van Gogh, Dalí, Klimt, Picasso, Dix, Klee...

“This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.“ (Salvador Dalí)

Focus on: Street Photography

Doisneau's „Kiss by the Hôtel de Ville" is one of the most famous photographs in the world. In these days when the coronavirus has changed the way we live, the physical closeness shown here seems almost surreal - cafés and streets full of people, no face covering and no social distance. Certainly today's street photographers will also produce iconic images of these strange times: What they will…

Just arrived: From Minimalism in Germany to Cindy Sherman's Untitled Horrors

... and photo portraits of Picasso, Sugimoto, Schapiro, Lange, Guidi, Becker, Chanel ...

Let's go to Paris!

As a centre of art, culture and fashion, Paris has been attracting the attention of the world for centuries.

In the city new trends were developed, avant-garde works of art, plans, designs and ideas were created: Medieval lluminated manuscripts, the famous cathedral Notre-Dame, Haussmann's audacious programme of urban planning, surrealism and futurism, fashion, photographs in and of Paris are just…

Spectacular! Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne Atlas

From 1925 until his death in 1929 Aby Warburg worked on his Mnemosyne Atlas, a volume of plates that has taken on mythical status in the study of modern art and visual studies. With this project, Warburg created a visual reference system that was far ahead of its time. Pinning black and white photographic reproductions on black-strung boards, Warburg created constellations that made cross-epochal inferences…

Focus on: Photojournalism

From Robert Capa's and Gerda Taro's photographs of the Spanish Civil War to Chim, Cartier-Bresson, Rodger and the international photographic cooperative Magnum Photos.

Soooo many new books!

Including two books on John Baldessari, a biography on photographer Robert Frank, a title on Patti Smith, photo books, titles on fashion and architecture and many more.

Real giants! Our heavyweights:

Enormously big catalogues raisonnés, corpulent encyclopaedias, massive coffee table books and impressive book sets.

Focus on: Roni Horn

In her drawings, photographs, installations and books, American Artist Roni Horn has been exploring the nature of water and its universal qualities for over 30 years:

“Water… reassures you, affirms you, shows you who you are, ... sighs, sucks, laughs, splishes, splashes, slashes, washes, murmurs, gushes, bubbles, babbles, shimmers, shines, gleams.“

Roni Horn's Dictionary of Water, for example,…

Just released: Peter Beard

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Focus on: Guy Bourdin

Controversal, provocative, surrealist, pioneering - Guy Bourdin is one of the world's most influential fashion photographers. He was constantly breaking and stretching the boundaries by creating shocking, sensual, and sometimes unsettling images.

Book of the Week: Paula Modersohn–Becker

Considered one of the most important of the early German modernists, the painter Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) challenged traditions of representations of the female body in art.

With her subdued, earthy palette and surfaces of thick impasto, Modersohn-Becker avoided conventional beauty. Discarding any hint of idealization, her female figures, whose sturdy bodies are often posed awkwardly,…

New arrivals: From Pompeii and Casanova's Europe to the space

And: Japanese dolls, Flemish tapestry, David Shrigley's cartoonlike drawings, Venetian glass, magazine layout and covers...

#stayathomewithbooks: What, when and where are you reading?

Art books, photo books or novels? In the morning, while having breakfast, in the evening with a glass of wine? On the floor? At a desk? In the garden?

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By the way, we spend our days at home with these books:

Special offer: Kander, Burri, Evans, Morath, Hanzlova...

Just arrived: Leibovitz, Lagerfeld, Hadid, McCurry, Newton, Alonge, Picasso, Carpeaux...

Focus on: David Goldblatt

David Goldblatt has documented the far-reaching effects of Apartheid in South African society. His pictures recorded those moments, scenes of everyday life and seemingly unprepossessing things that tend to be the most revelatory.

These four titles are now available as a set for 70 €: On the Mines | Particulars | Boksburg | Structures de Domination et de Démocratie

Spectacular Spaces of Knowledge: The most beautiful universities & Books on art & photography

The start of studies at the universities will initially be purely digital. If you are longing for lecture halls, libraries and study rooms, we recommend the book The Most Beautiful Universities in the World: A journey from Bologna, Salamanca and Coimbra to Uppsala, Heidelberg and Paris... and, of course, Yale, Cambridge, Princeton and Oxford.

In addition, we've selected some great and knowledgeable…

Books which are becoming more and more expensive...

Now and then there are books which suddenly become rare and expensive; real treasures which we sometimes even don't so much like to sell ;-)

Book of the Week: Elliott Erwitt's Scotland

A “great Scottish adventure”: Armed with his trusty Leica camera, Elliot Erwitt embarked on an exploration of Scotland and pays homage to the varied landscapes and characters—and of course, the dogs!—that are unique to Scotland.

Very well hidden: rare titles

Among our books there are some real rarities (signed copies & special editions). We've gone on a hunt and discovered some very rare and wonderful titles: Eggleston, Moholy-Nagy, Schürmann, Wessel, Wolf, Witkin, Richter....

Focus on: Sebastião Salgado

Between misery and beauty: Gold shows the intense drama of the gold rush at Serra Pelada during the 1980s. Salgado's haunting black-and-white photographs from the Genesis project record landscapes and people unchanged in the devastating onslaught of modern society and development. End of Polio is an inspirational account of the global initiative to eliminate the scourge of polio and in Scent of a Dream…

In Pairs: One book, two artists

Inspiration and conflict, compared and confronted: Mapplethorpe & Munch, Bacon & Picasso, Kaprow & Oldenburg, Dalí und Duchamp, Wearing & Cahun – The books show their life, work and working methods and reveal similarities and differences: By engaging in a dialogue often surprising insights emerge...

Bargain of the week: Richard Avedon & James Baldwin – Im Hinblick (German edition)

Richard Avedon and James Baldwin's joint examination of American identity: Baldwin's powerful essay and Avedon's stunning portraits are just as relevant today as they were when the book was originally published in 1964.

A postcard from Cologne...

Why not write a postcard to your grandma, aunt, father or friends? These postcard sets and books provide plenty of material and inspiration to send greetings to loved ones.

Focus on: Peter Lindbergh

Untold Stories, a current exhibition at Museum Kunstpalast in Duesseldorf, celebrates the legacy of Peter Lindbergh, who passed away in September 2019. The museum is currently closed due to the coronavirus outbreak. The catalogue, however, gives a wonderful insight into Lindbergh's personal approach to fashion photography – and makes you want to see more of his photos!

“What I'm interested in,…

The Divine: Raphael

2020 marks the 500th anniversary of Raphael's death.

Crowned the “Prince of Painters” by Giorgio Vasari, Raphael (1483–1520) stands as one of the most popular artists of the Italian Renaissance.

Around 1515, Raphael designed a set of tapestries for Leo X, the first Medici pope. Now lost, these spectacular, grand-scale textiles are reconstructed in “Raphael’s Tapestries“ and set among…

What a bargain! A treasure of photography: Henri Cartier-Bresson's Scrapbook

Henri Cartier-Bresson's legendary Scrapbook contains 345 images printed by himself to prepare for the Museum of Modern Art show in 1947. It represents a major contribution to the understanding of Cartier-Bresson during this period.

Graphic Novels, Cartoons & Comics

Amazing stories to read and to look at: Totally awesome!

American Beauty: Robert Adams – The Place We Live

Robert Adams has been capturing the changing landscape of the American West for more than forty years; its skies and rivers, its prairies, its suburbs and shopping malls. The Place We Live presents his best work and is available for a reduced price of just 78 €.

“No place is boring, if you’ve had a good night’s sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.” – Robert Adams

Faminsky | Berlin Mai 1945 (Second Edition)

The archive of Valery Faminsky (1914-1993) recently found in Moscow is a unique discovery. Taken in Berlin between April 22nd to May 24th 1945, the photographs show the ruins of the city, and the everyday life of its population and the Russian troops. Recorded without any pathos or propaganda, these photographs have a humanitarian perspective on the longing for peace, and the reality of war. Both the authenticity and the closeness to the events allow the viewer to witness these historic moments intimately.

(Photo: Ana Druga & Thomas Gust last week at the printing house)

Photobooks on Berlin

We took the new Faminsky Edition as an opportunity to rummage in our shelves for more photobooks about Berlin. Have a look what we found...

What's your book world like? | Send a pic win a book

Send us a photo we are allowed to post on our Instagram Channel artbooksoffline! For the picture with the most comments you will get a book worth 25 € !

Architecture & Design

Would you like to rearrange your furniture and need some inspiration?

20th Century World Architecture | The Phaidon Atlas

The "Phaidon Atlas of 20th Century World Architecture" portrays, for the first time in one volume, an overview of the finest built architecture from around the world completed between 1900 and 1999. The unprecedented global scope of this collection of over 750 key buildings juxtaposes architectural icons with regional masterpieces.

A colossus of architectural history, now for affordable € 39,95 .

George Georgiou | Americans Parade (signed)

"Americans Parade is a parade of Americans. One after the other, from one community to the next, building up a picture of Americans in the United States in 2016, the year Donald Trump was elected, a year when Americas division have never been more pronounced. The details become important. A sea of faces, expressions, postures, gestures, a look, a touch, alongside, fashions and social behaviour and interactions. A narrative full of complexities and ambiguities, like a series of modern day tableaux." – George Georgiou

New Arrivals | French Photobooks

Almost no text, but many many photos: From Hans van der Meer's European Fields, Guido Mocafico's Serpens and Thibaut Cuisset's French landscapes to Édouard Boubat's Lella and Karl Lagerfeld's Villa Noailles.

Publisher of the Week | Witty Books

Witty Books was founded in 2012 with the name of Witty Kiwi, it's an independent publishing house that aims to promote contemporary photography and visual art.

New books

Bilder einer Metropole. Die Impressionisten in Paris

€38.00 €18.00

Henrik Spohler – Hypothesis

€34.00

Francesco Neri – Farmers

€38.00

Robert Knoth & Antoinette de Jong – Tree and Soil

€45.00

Franz Erhard Walther – Shifting Perspectives

(English edition)

€64.00

Lee Miller

€29.80 €16.00

Franz Erhard Walther – Shifting Perspectives

(Deutsche Ausgabe)

€64.00

Taryn Simon – Field Guide to Birds of the West Indies

€78.00 €39.00

Hilma af Klint – Artist, Researcher, Medium

€48.00

Donald Judd & Switzerland

€50.00

Christoph Hänsli – Corpus Haenslianum

€58.00

Robert Lebeck – Face the Camera

(Deutsche Ausgabe)

€28.00

Elmgreen & Dragset – Sculptures

€48.00

Komm, mein Mädchen, in die Berge

Eine fotografische Liebesgeschichte in den Alpen

€15.00

Juergen Teller – The Keys to the House

€45.00 €20.00

Ed Ruscha – Cotton Puffs, Q–Tips, Smoke & Mirrors

The Drawings of Ed Ruscha

€60.00

Robert Polidori & Marc Ferrez – Rio

€95.00 €39.95

Jan Jedlička – Il Cerchio / The Circle

Maremma 2005-2006

€38.00 €19.95

Roni Horn – Haraldsdóttir, Part Two

To Place

€85.00 €58.00

Roni Horn – aka

€35.00 €15.00

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