The Stylish Life: Cowboys takes you on a journey through the evocative world of the Wild West, as seen through the lens of vintage photography, iconic film stills, and the ever-evolving allure of cowboy and cowgirl fashion. This visually rich book captures the rugged romance and free-spirited energy of the American frontier, reimagined through timeless imagery and curated collections of Western accessories and attire.
Each page brings the Wild West to life, showcasing not only the iconic denim, leather, and fringe, but also the attitude and cultural symbolism behind these enduring styles. Background stories and advertising campaigns add historical depth, revealing how these elements have shaped popular culture and continue to influence modern design. This book is a tribute to the cinematic, rebellious spirit of the cowboy era—perfect for lovers of vintage fashion, Western mythology, and the unique flair that blends rugged authenticity with refined elegance.
This beautiful publication presents a collection of luxurious villas designed by Geoff Chick & Associates in the tradition of timber-framed vernacular style of Florida’s nineteenth- and twentieth-century architecture. From minimalist retreats poised on the edge of the surf to sprawling family homes nestled among pine forests, these residences are a poetic reinterpretation of the Gulf Coast’s vernacular through a contemporary architectural lens.
Presented as a large-format hardback book, Coastal Villas: Luxury Living on the Gulf Coast is a celebration of architecture tailored to the Gulf Coast’s complex interplay of delicate ecosystems, relentless sun, and occasional hurricanes. Large windows invite coastal breezes and abundant natural light, while shaded courtyards and covered terraces create comfortable outdoor living areas. Porches, tall ceilings, bracketed overhangs, and raised pier footings draw inspiration from vernacular architecture, and timeless interiors fuse artistry and function.
Exploring the harmony of form, function, and nature on the Gulf Coast, this aspirational publication will inspire a deep appreciation for architecture that celebrates the spirit of a place.
Since the 1960s, Berlin-born artist Dieter Appelt (b. 1935) has traced the losses of modern society through his camera lens. The trained musician and opera singer discovered photography as a means of reconnecting with nature, mythology, and mortality. In countless activities that he documented with his camera, Appelt incorporates his own body into the images with a poetic approach, exploring its fragility and relationship with nature. Time and again, he circles around existential questions of life and death, memory and recurrence.
The Lindenau Museum in Altenburg is honouring Dieter Appelt with the 2025 Gerhard Altenbourg Prize for his life’s work and has dedicated an exhibition to him. This publication provides an extensive and profound insight into Appelt’s artistic development and, in addition to important projects and large-scale series of photographs, also documents drawings, objects, and films from the artist’s oeuvre.
Text in English and German.
Whitening Heights is both photography and a way of life at once. Inspired by the Alpine sun that seems to drain everything of colour, Sandro Livio Straube has been creating an ongoing series of images since 2015 that express a sense of deceleration and desaturation. Through this exercise in observation, looking at the world through the camera lens, he explores themes of transience, the vulnerability of all living beings, and the fragility of the environment created by humankind. The black-and-white and colour photographs taken in the Alpine valley of Lumnezia bear witness to a fulfilled presence that reveals things in all their inherent beauty. The three accompanying texts shed light on various aspects of this photographic work, with passages in Rheto-Romanic and Swiss German that also convey something of the attitude to life in this valley of light.
Text in German, English, Rheto-Romanic and Swiss German.
It’s hard to think of another contemporary Chinese photographer who fully exploits all the possibilities photography has to offer like Xu Yong. For his series 18% GRAY (2009) and MY FRIENDS (2020), he constructed a ten-centimetre-long metal ring, which was then affixed between the camera and the lens, causing the camera to lose focus so that the images are blurred. Xu Yong used this method to photograph his close friends and important places from his memories. He portrays, for example, the alleyway in Shanghai where he lived as a child, the Huangpu river, in which the ashes of his grandfather were scattered, and Tiananmen Square in Beijing. This publication is a visual autobiography which at the same time allows Xu Yong to demonstrate his great sensitivity for the realities of Chinese society.
Text in English and Chinese.
In Overburden, photographer Mikael Lundström journeys through the central Appalachian mountains in the East of the USA, an area shaped by coal-mining, poverty, and deep religion. It is also thought to be the birthplace of country music. The first settlers, fleeing religious persecution in their home countries, appreciated the remoteness and quiet of the region. Over many generations, they lived separate from other immigrants, resulting in the formation of a unique mountain culture. However, this relative isolation was brought to an end at the close of the 19th century with the rise of the coal industry. Mining settlements sprang up around the mines, revealing the harsh face of capitalism. The mixture of old mining traditions, new waves of immigration, and the ruthless exploitation of people and nature continues to shape the area to the present day.
Now that the coal mines have shut down, the population of these once-flourishing mining towns is dwindling, and the opioid crisis has left behind deep scars. Lundström’s images are an uncensored yet empathetic testimony to the region. They tell of turbulent times and of the people who live and work here, the daily challenges they face, and the hopes that carry them through.
I’ll Remember You by the Swedish photographer Jonas Dahlström is a poignant portrait of his father, who suffers from Alzheimerʼs. During his visits, Dahlström uses his fatherʼs camera to capture and preserve their moments together. Their shared passion for photography serves as a way of evoking the memories that remain—a link between the past and the present, between father and son. As his father sinks deeper into dementia, photography increasingly becomes a tool to help the author cope with the painful experience of witnessing his fatherʼs gradual decline. Through the camera lens, he confronts his fear of growing old and the eventual loss of his own memories.
Jonas Dahlström’s first book 07:27:47 was published by Kerber Verlag in 2020. It has won numerous international prizes and awards. Since then, he has been working on I’ll Remember You.
San Francisco: the home of hills and valleys, of dreamers and trailblazers, of hippies and hipsters. From the gold rush to the Golden Gate, the City by the Bay has always basked in the glow of its colourful and celebrated history and world-renowned landmarks. But for those who live and love on this compact, seven-mile by seven-mile metropolis, San Francisco is a treasure trove of unusual neighbourhood sights and places that sparkle with the allure of hidden pleasures and local lore. Discover a stairway that transports you from the depths of the ocean to the heights of outer space; take a spin class amidst the grand elegance of a repurposed 1920s movie palace; or slide down a century-old sundial that sits at the centre of what was once California’s first racetrack for cars. This is the real San Francisco. Strung together, the 111 experiences gathered here tell the B-side story of the city once romantically known as the Paris of the West.
From underdog start-up to industry leader, 40 years of strategic choices, innovative breakthroughs, and bold choices revealed. Lessons Learned of ASML traces the journey from an underdog start‑up to the dominant supplier in a volatile Tech industry. Built on interviews, internal notes and archives, it reconstructs the managerial choices—how ambitions were set, investments staged, partnerships orchestrated, technologies chosen, and setbacks absorbed—and tests them across four decades. Each chapter applies a clear analytical lens and brief reflection prompts, bringing strategy, innovation and ecosystem coordination into one readable, evidence‑driven narrative that opens theory for practice without pretending there is a universal recipe.
From Cannes to St Tropez the French Riviera’s most iconic hot spots are artfully explored through the lens of fine arts photographer Natalie Obradovich, who captures the soul of each location with affection and nuance. Each image is a postcard from the shores of the French beach clubs and towns that define summer.
Gered Mankowitz is among the most important, prolific and hard-working photographers of the last century. Timed for release on the eve of his 80th birthday, Photographs is his most comprehensive book yet, encompassing 65 years of an illustrious career from 1960-2025, with classic, rare and never-before-seen imagery. Mankowitz made a name for himself in London’s burgeoning Swinging Sixties scene. A session with Marianne Faithfull led to him working with The Rolling Stones as their official photographer throughout the mid-60s, and he went on to capture music legends from Jimi Hendrix and The Yardbirds to Elton John and Kate Bush. Mankowitz never stopped growing as an artist, taking promotional shots of movie stars such as Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, creating prize-winning advertising imagery for clients from Heineken to British Rail, shooting emerging artists, and publishing numerous books of his work. With accompanying text from the photographer, a natural storyteller, Gered Mankowitz: Photographs reveals an artist in constant conversation with his medium, adapting his craft and remaining relevant in an ever-evolving industry.
Step into the darkly enchanting world of the Gothic Witch — solitary, romantic, and deeply connected to the mysteries of the night. Gothic Witchcraft is a beautifully illustrated guide to her magical practices, from favourite tools to rituals under the full moon. Filled with nocturnal spells, celebrations, and haunting beauty, this book invites readers to explore magic through a mysterious and poetic lens. Perfect for lovers of gothic, fantasy, and dark aesthetics. Includes:
– Nocturnal spells, celebrations, and magical holidays.
– Exquisite, atmospheric illustrations throughout.
– Rich cultural references from literature and cinema.
– Stunning hardcover edition, ideal for collectors and gift giving.
– The perfect gift for Halloween.
Beauty ideals have shaped our lives since time immemorial. In her first monograph, I am not like me, photographer Lina Czerny (b. 1993) focuses on the body as the stage upon which we present ourselves. Between self-determination and normative images, she explores how people shape their appearance, using make-up, cosmetic treatments, tattoos, or training to design their identity. I am not like me is not a contradiction, but rather an expression of the capacity for transformation and distance between one’s past, present, and future. Czerny photographs in a diverse range of settings, from cosmetic procedures to gender-affirming surgery to a dominatrix’s studio, from bodybuilding competitions to beauty contests. The combination of portraits, video-stills, and interviews shows how closely self-design is tied to societal expectations—and where there is nevertheless scope for autonomy.
In the 1970s and ’80s, the Cannes Film Festival was more than a red carpet — it was a spectacle of freedom, fame, and excess. Photographer Ole Christiansen was there, camera in hand, capturing a time when the world’s biggest stars mingled with dreamers, directors, and the beautiful chaos of the Côte d’Azur.
Cannes unfolds a visual story from an era when the festival was still intimate, wild, and gloriously unfiltered. Christiansen’s lens brings us close to icons like Grace Jones, Sean Connery, Harrison Ford, Clint Eastwood, and many others — not as distant celebrities, but as part of a living, breathing scene of glamour, sun, and seduction. Through rare, candid, and often daring photographs, the book celebrates a time when film, fame, and freedom collided — when the nights were long, the parties endless, and the line between cinema and life seemed to disappear in the glow of the Riviera.
Starting in the mid 1980s, Sideshows by the Seashore on the legendary Coney Island Boardwalk hosted an event distinct from its usual fare of sword-swallowers, contortionists, and other marvels: the Annual Coney Island Tattoo Festival, which gathered together tattoo enthusiasts of every walk of life from all over the city, the country, and eventually, the world. It also drew a photographer from the Bronx with a fascination for tattooing, at a time when the art form was illegal in NYC and widely condemned as part of a dangerous fringe culture. For several years, Thomas Santelli served as the festival’s “unofficial official photographer,” documenting this lively, colourful event and the remarkable people who attended it. In this book, he shares approximately 200 of his black-and-white and colour portraits from the festival, to celebrate the tattooing community and this slice of Coney Island history and to honour all of the people who graciously sat for his camera.
Los Angeles Lost and Found is a collection of essays and photographs that explores Los Angeles as a city of constant reinvention, where history is often buried beneath layers of change. Experience designer Margaret Chandra Kerrison uses the lens of narrative placemaking to examine how LA’s physical spaces—its streets, neighbourhoods, and landmarks—shape both individual and collective identity.
What sets this collection apart is Kerrison’s deeply personal approach. She weaves her own story into the fabric of the city’s landscape, grounding cultural analysis in lived experience. Her reflections on the recent Los Angeles wildfires are especially poignant, revealing how natural disaster can strip a place down to its essence and reshape the stories we tell about it. Through these moments of vulnerability, she illustrates how loss and resilience are embedded in the urban environment. Blending memoir with observation, Kerrison highlights how overlooked spaces carry emotional weight and cultural memory. In doing so, she invites readers to view Los Angeles not just as a city of spectacle, but as a living, breathing narrative.
Los Angeles Lost and Found is both intimate and expansive, offering a portrait of a city that continues to inspire and challenge those who call it home—or dream of doing so.
Project 2 Craigs is a compilation of a collaborative project that offered two distinct visions—one armed with pencil, pen, brush, and paper—the other with lens, light, and the physical world. Over 52 weeks, the efforts of photographer Craig Cutler and illustrator Craig Frazier, converged into something more than just shared images—a celebration of the art of visual dialogue. Over 116 images and production notes describe a sustained conversation between mediums, thinking, and the unique approach each Craig brings to their work. It reminds us that making images is not just about output, but about intention, attention, and response.
Becoming a parent is not only about joy, happiness, and fulfillment. It can also trigger anger, despair, exhaustion, fear, and pain, as photographer Janine Bächle demonstrates in her long-term, autobiographical project, Becoming Parents. Bächle documented her pregnancy with an unvarnished lens, breaking taboos by showing unfiltered bodily details and functions. Through her sensitive yet shockingly honest photographs, Bächle documents her everyday family life, the changes in her body, and the emotional spectrum of becoming a parent. She deliberately sees her project as a realistic counterpoint to the romanticised images in relevant guidebooks and the perfect portrayals on social media. In addition to making care work visible, the book shows the struggle with feelings such as aggression, sadness, and fundamental doubts about parenthood. By juxtaposing her photographs with diary entries, lab results, and birth records, the narrative oscillates between control and collapse. The result is an indissoluble tension between image, word, and document that captivates viewers and allows them to experience the intensity and vulnerability of becoming a parent.
Text in English and German.
Louis Kahn: Continuity and Innovation offers a new, unusually open approach to the work of one of the most influential figures of 20th-century architecture. The view of Kahn is forward-looking: which of his ideas and concepts can today’s architects productively implement for timely designs that respond to the challenges of climate change and scarce resources?
The volume brings together voices from contemporary architectural practice. Their essays reflect on Kahn’s use of materials, light, and mass and highlight that many of his design strategies remain relevant to current debates on durability, re-use, and a socially engaged architecture. They are illustrated with little-known material from ETH Zürich’s gta archive as well as with newly commissioned photographs of Louis Kahn’s buildings in their current state. The book is rounded out with student designs for a visitor centre for the Louis Kahn Estonia Foundation in Tallinn that demonstrate how the next generation of architects are developing Kahn’s lasting legacy in their own designs.
A weed-based colour laboratory, costumes made of bones, guerilla bill-posting, or subversive alternative street-markings for parking areas: Käthe Wenzel works on the periphery of daily urban life, in urban wastelands and in city systems; she uses weeds, roadkill, and conversation. She explores urban landscapes and “Queer Ecologies” as a transdisciplinary border-crosser with a finely tuned sensory perception for new materials and technologies. She focuses on the adaptability of urban coexistence. Urban Organisms encompasses three groups of works—the Urban Ink Lab, works from Signs and Bones, and Sci-Fi Prototypes. In them, Wenzel hijacks urban spaces: she breaks down wasteland areas in Berlin into micro-localised colour worlds; endangered species live on in constructions made of linen and bones; and chopped-up visual vocabularies of the city are opened up for collective reuse.
Text in English and German.
What does it mean to be young? It is a time of becoming, a transient period in life, during which the innocence of childhood gradually fades as the joys and sorrows of adulthood begin to loom in the distance. It is a time of in-betweens and uncertainty, fragility and vulnerability; but it is also a time of hope and possibility, potential and promise.
In Being Young – Portraits of Becoming, photographer Wolfgang Strassl invites us to look closely and carefully at this fleeting yet formative chapter of life. Strassl’s lens does not intrude, but instead, with a quiet sensitivity and gentle admiration, holds back and simply observes. His subjects seem to be aware that they are being seen for who they truly are and feel no need to perform or pretend. In these momentary encounters their openness, insecurity and self-assuredness surface simultaneously.
This series of portraits is a visual poem–a compilation of features and postures, glances and gestures. And, like youth, it is truly captivating.
Introduction by Simon Hill.