Café Royal Books is the one-man publishing house of the Briton Craig Atkinson, based in Southport, Great Britain. Craig founded the publishing house back in…
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Ferdinand Hodler in der Berlinischen Galerie
Als ich unseren in Berlin wohnhaften Schweizer Freunden erzählte, dass die Berlinische Galerie das Werk des Schweizer Malers Ferdinand Hodler, antworteten die mir, ob ich…
Der geheimnisvolle Hund. Über eine neue Daido Moriyama-Dokumentation.
Das erste Mal begegnete ich den Arbeiten des japanischen Fotografen Daido Moriyama in London in einer Doppelausstellung mit William Klein in der Tate Modern. Seither…
Über Knut Elstermanns wunderbaren DEFA-Gesprächsband „Im Gespräch“
Zwanzig Jahre meines früheren Lebens habe ich ja in der Filmbranche verbracht und dort PR für Kinofilme gemacht, viel für IMAX und viel für die…
A beach is a beach is a beach: About Jörg Rubbert‘s wonderful beach photography book “Beach Lovers”
Photo books about the sea should be declared a genre of their own. Martin Parr’s „Life’s a Beach”, which reports on the absurdity of beach life. Philip…
Cut&Paste: About gestalten’s wonderful book THE AGE OF COLLAGE VOL. 3
The art form of collage has always been closely linked to photography. Photography played a role in two ways: on the one hand, photographers and collage…
Waves of images.
About SEND ME AN IMAGE: From Postcards to Social Media. An exhibition at C / O Berlin, from May 29th to September 2nd, 2021. Three gigantic…
The magic of books
THE BOOKSELLERS, the film by American documentary film director D. W. Young, awakens two dreams in the pandemic-plagued Central European author: on the one hand,…
In the sea of the city
IN THE SEA OF THE CITY Cities are peculiar formations. They are noisy, hectic, reckless, confusing, emotionally cold, alienating, and lonely. Nevertheless, all cities preserve…
About one of the most beautiful photo books of the last ten years
Saul Leiter. Retrospektive. Katalog zur Ausstellung im Haus der Photographie, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, 2012. “To be ignored is a great privilege.” In the years before his death…