Während ihres Studium an der HGB hatte Dona Abboud meist nur über Facebook Kontakt zu ihrer Familie und zu Freunden in Syrien. ›Out of Syria. Inside Facebook‹ ist aus dieser Erfahrung erwachsen. Es stellt 10 Syrer und Syrerinnen durch fast 2000 Fotos von deren Facebook-Seiten vor. Hinzu kommen Interviews und kurze Biografien. Das Buch ist dreisprachig, deutsch, englisch und arabisch angelegt.

… quickly peek inside, and the scene that’s taking place there gets stuck on your mind”—that’s how the 32-year-old photographer Andreas Mühe (b. Karl-Marx-Stadt, 1979; lives and works in Berlin) describes the effect he hopes his pictures will have. Like the photograph of Helmut Schmidt’s office he chose for the cover of this book. In fact, he leaves nothing to chance, staging each setting down to the smallest detail. Deliberate selection of the space and precise lighting have become his trademark. His unconventional style has made Mühe the shooting star of the German photography scene and a sought-after portraitist of prominent politicians and celebrities such as Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, the Italian ambassador Antonio Puri Purini, Christiane zu Salm, and Gerhard Richter.

In 2014, Candida Höfer (b. Eberswalde, Germany, 1944; lives and works in Cologne) traveled to Mexico, visiting the eight cities Ciudad de México, Guadalajara, Guanajuato, Oaxaca, Puebla, Tepotzotlán, Tlacochahuaya, and Tonantzintla, where she photographed old and new libraries, theaters and opera houses, churches and museums, poorhouses and palaces. Most of the pictures are organized by symmetry along a central axis, a characteristic feature of her art. If these works suggest her training with Hilla and Bernd Becher, who taught photography in Düsseldorf—she is now the best-known of their students—others show a “new” Candida Höfer: old-fashioned offices, weather-beaten walls, and simple stores as well as a few expertly captured details of façades, floors, and interiors. With an essay by the Mexican historian and economist José N. Iturriaga.

Futile takes places in Spain and comprises two sets of photojournalistic survey, tracing architectural remnants of the recent recession. The photographers set out in the summer of 2013 to document what the financial crisis had left behind. The first set shows a vast array of unfinished buildings all over the country. The second is a series of images taken at the finished but unused Don Quijote Airport. This ghost airport is one of the largest investment ruins of Spain. The publication includes an essay by Jeroen Nieuwland.

210 x 280 mm, 56 Seiten ISBN 978-3-9817475-7-7

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PICNIC # 11 Auto-Biography by Oliver Selzer 210 x 280 mm, 68 Seiten ISBN 978-3-9817475-4-6 Ausgezeichnet mit dem iF DESIGN AWARD 2016.

210 x 280 mm, 56 Seiten ISBN 978-3-9817475-2-2

210 x 280 mm, 64 Seiten ISBN 978-3-9812294-9-3

210 x 280 mm, 48 Seiten ISBN 978-3-9812294-5-5 Ausgezeichnet mit dem if communication award 2010.

90 Farbabbildungen 210 x 280 mm, 80 Seiten ISBN 978-3-9812294-3-1 Ausgezeichnet mit dem red dot award 2009.

Zu Siegfried Kracauers berühmten Text ›Die kleinen Ladenmädchen gehen ins Kino‹ liefern die Aufzeichnungen von Charlotte Gerth die nötige Empirie. Die Leipziger Angestellte hat über jeden der von ihr zwischen 1931 bis 1951 gesehenen Filme genau Buch geführt. Tabea Nixdorff und Katrin Erthel sind von ihren Listen zu einer ›Drehbuchvorlage‹ inspiriert worden. Gerths ›Kinobuch‹, ein Flohmarktsfund, haben sie transkribiert und kommentiert.

Each cover of i-D magazine gives you a knowing wink that hints at the wonder inside. Cutting-edge and influential, this publication is well known for its superb layout and first class photography. From the UK, this manual of style was one of the first to break the barrier between art and fashion photography.

The more stuff we accumulate, the more space we need to store it all. Vast portions of the landscape are claimed and governed by spaces of storage, their maintenance, and the goods that move through them—or remain buried within them indefinitely. This issue of Harvard Design Magazine investigates and unpacks the contents, containers, and systems of storage that organize our world. Storage is the aggregation and containment of the material and immaterial stuff of culture; but also the safeguarding—or hoarding—of energy and tools for some imagined future purpose. How does all this stuff mask or overcompensate for economic and ecological bankruptcy? Is storage about greed or need? Storage, perhaps, is everything we can live without but insist on living with. “Shelf Life” explores what’s inside the box (shed, tank, urn, vault, crypt, crate, case, pot, bag, vat, morgue, safe, bin, archive, warehouse, cabinet, cellar, cemetery, depository, locker, freezer, landfill, library). Even as we attempt to reduce and recycle, the stuff that we dispose of also needs to be stored. Where do we put it? Our planet is now a saturated receptacle. This warehouse is full, and we’re all inside it.

Graphic Recording, eine Technik zum Live-Illustrieren von Präsentationen, Workshops und Tagungen, wird immer beliebter und verbreitet sich rasant. Nun erscheint erstmals ein umfassendes Handbuch.

Inhalt: Editorial Christoph Laimer – Judentum und Urbanität: Vorwort Joachim Schlör Das Phänomen der jüdischen Berlinophilie Laurence Guillon Der dunkle Kontinent unweit des Hauptpostamts. Das jüdische London aus (post)kolonialer Perspektive Tobias Metzler Warschau – jüdische Absenz, jüdische Präsenz Joachim Schlör Antisemitismus und Großstadtfeindschaft Bodo Kahmann Diamanten und Orthodoxie? Ein historischer Blick auf jüdisches Leben in Antwerpen Veerle Vanden Daelen – Kunstinserts: Susanne Kriemann: One Time One Million Andreas Fogarasi – Magazin: Zwischen An- und Abwesenheit Mikro-Verteilerzentren in urbanen Nischen Carina Sacher In Ketten durch Wien. Leo Perutz – Zwischen neun und neun Alexander Peer Was ist Urbanität? Eine Auseinandersetzung mit Manfred Russos Buch Projekt Stadt Klaus Ronneberger – Besprechungen: Wunschmaschine Gemeindebau Robert Temel Am Ende der Anfang? Andre Krammer Kreativpolitik und städtisches Regierungshandeln Klaus Ronneberger Zweimal Leben! Wie sich durch Film unsere Realität erweitert Ursula Probst