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A ticket to (Teun Voeten / Henri Beunders)
A ticket to Bosnië, Soedan, Rwanda, Afghanistan Sierra Leone,
the "forgotten wars", photographed by Teun voeten. Introduction by Henri Beunders.
Amsterdam Tijdens den Hongerwinter (Max Nord / Emmy Andriesse / Cas Oorthuys)
Introduction by Max Nord. The images come from the photographers from 'De ondergedoken camera'. Photographers for example; Emmy Andriesse, Cas Oorthuys, Ad Windig, Krijn Taconis and others.
Arnhem stad der bezitloozen (C. Doelman)
Text in Dutch full page photos of destroyed Arnhem in 1945.
Beirut City Center (Larry E. McPherson)
The Lebanese Civil War dominated life in Beirut from 1975 until 1990. When it ended, a massive rebuilding began, with the goal of making its Central District the finest city center in the Middle East. In 2002 Larry E. McPherson was commissioned to document this transition.
Berlin (Pierre Mac Orlan)
Original pictorial wrappers. Scarce and fascinating work of th e Berlin of the early years of the Third Reich by one of the most famous French novelists and journalists. Pierre Mac Orlan exposes his thoughts on each one of the 66 photogravures compiled in this book. This scarce work is a part of a collection intitled "Tour du Monde" which only got 2 titles (London and Berlin). The publisher of this book seems to have retrieved or destroyed the majority of its copies, due to the too openly anti-Nazi critics stated by Mac Orlan, which would explain its scarcity.
British Watchtowers (Donovan Wylie)
These high tech towers, constructed in the mid 1980’s, primarily in the mountainous border region of South Armagh, were landmarks in a thirty year conflict in and over Northern Ireland, euphemistically called “The Troubles”. The Towers were finally demolished between 2000 and 2007 as part of the British government’s “Demilitarization” program for Northern Ireland. For over a year Donovan Wylie photographed these towers.
Children of Europe (David Seymour)
orig photo-pictorial wrappers spiral bound, plates printed in gravure text in English, French and Spanish
In 1948 Chim accepted an assignment to take photographs for a UNICEF book intended to show the horrid condition of needy children in postwar Europe and the work undertaken by the United Nations agency to ameliorate their situation.
Hongarije 1956 (Ata Kando / Violette Cornelius)
These images where made between 10-20 november 1956 . This book was comissioned by the organisation "Nationaal Comité Hulpverlening Hongaarse volk". to aid the Hungarian people.
B/W photographs featuring Hungarian refugees, men, women and children upon the arrival at the Austrian-Hungarian border, with citations from poems in a variety of languages as hebrew, japanese german, english, french, hungarian.
Impressies 1945 Geteisterd Nederland (Martien Coppens)
6 full page plates printed in gravure text in Dutch captions in Dutch, English, French, Spanish and Swedish first edition
Nicaragua '78 (Koen Wessing)
It was a photograph of Nicaragua by Wessing that Roland Barthes referred to in a passage in his seminal work on the theory of photography, Camera Lucida: "I was glancing through an illustrated magazine. A photograph made me pause. Nothing very extraordinary: the (photographic) banality of a rebellion in Nicaragua: a ruined street, two helmeted soldiers on patrol; behind them, two nuns. Did this photograph please me? Interest me? Intrigue me? Not even. Simply, it existed (for me)..."
Nie wieder Krieg ! (Kaethe Kollwitz / Various)
Numerous black & white horrendous photographic illustrations of frightful mutilations left by the war. 63 pages, slim 8vo, black & white wrappers with an illustration by Kathe Kollwitz Amsterdam: 1929. Scarce. Text and captions in six European languages. The photographs were collected by Ernst Friedrich, director of the Anti-War Museum of Berlin.,
Peace in the Holy Land (Ad van Denderen)
Photobook by Ad van Denderen about the ongoing conflict in Palestine, text in dutch and english by Joop van Tijn.
People in Trouble Laughing Pushed to the Ground (Adam Broomberg / Oliver Chanarin )
Photographers Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin dove into the Belfast Exposed photography archive and created a photobook called "People in Trouble, Laughing, Pushed to the Ground" published by Mack. The archive was founded in 1983 and contains over half a million images, from which over 14,000 black-and-white contact sheets documenting the Troubles in Northern Ireland. These photos were taken by professional and amateur photographers and were censored by the governement. As a reponse to that, Belfast Exposed started to collect all these images, not only showing protest and terror but also people drinking, kissing and smoking.
Robert Capa at Work: This Is War!: Photographs, 1936 - 1945 (Robert Capa / Richard Richard)
At the heart of Robert Capa’s lifework are his great images of war. This book examines in detail six of Capa’s most important war reportages from the first half of his career: the Falling Soldier (1936), Chinese resistance to the Japanese invasion (1938), the end of the Spanish Civil War in Catalonia (November 1938 – January 1939), D-day (1944), the U.S. paratroop invasion of Germany (March 1945), and the liberation of Leipzig (April 1945).
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