The 4th edition of the Fotofestival Mannheim_Ludwigshafen_Heidelberg bears the title "The Eye is a Lonely Hunter – Images of Humankind." The festival takes as its point of departure a humanist perspective in the tradition of documentary photography. It will showcase a variety of practices that are situated at the intersection between documentary and artistic photography, practices that are characterised by a strong sense of visuality but also a keen sense of sociopolitical awarenes.

ISBN 978-3-86828-240-5
20 Euro
2011

The publication TopoSonic Arts documents the work of the artist pair (today working under the name ) from 1998 to 2006, featuring essays on the content, philosophy and aesthetic behind their work...

ISBN 978-3-939583-52-3
36 Euro
2007

The publication TRUST explores our intuitive confidence in machines and media. Our relationship to technology and technological media is often plagued by doubts and suspicions.

ISBN 978-3-86828-158-3
20 Euro
2010

In her black-and-white portrait photographs Birgitta Thaysen captures her sitters in moments of inward-turning reverie. The photographer finds her models, of all ages and walks of life, in London and Düsseldorf. Her portraits are united by the use of the same attribute...

ISBN 978-3-86828-076-0
30 Euro
2009

David Teniers the Younger, one of the leading masters of the Golden Age in Flanders, was already venerated by his contemporaries. His pleasurable depictions of rural life made him one of the most influential genre painters of the 17th century.

ISBN 978-3-936636-71-0
48 Euro
2005

For the Dutch pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale, Fiona Tan has developed the project Disorient, which consists of three different works: Disorient, Rise and Fall, Provenance.

ISBN 978-3-86828-068-5
34 Euro
2009

Fiona Tan, an artist who was born in Indonesia in 1966, grew up in Australia, and now lives in the Netherlands, has attracted international attention since the 1990s with her films and video projects. Her monumental work Correction, which deals with American prisons, was shown in the most important museums of the United States in 2004-2005

ISBN 978-3-936636-89-5
48 Euro
2006

Jochen Twelker transposes ornamentally patterned textile objects back into a two-dimensional image.

ISBN 978-3-936636-45-1
23,50 Euro
2004

They experienced and survived the 20th century with its two world wars, de struction and reconstruction, division and reunification. They have lived a century: the photographer Karsten Thormaehlen has portrayed more than forty men and women aged 100 years or over. His photo series pays homage to old age, showing us the dignity and beauty of aging with great re spect but without glorification.

ISBN 978-3-86828-243-6
36 Euro
2011

They break records and have the most unusual biographies. In his new book, the multi-award-winning photographer Karsten Thormaehlen tells of senior citizens like the 85-year-old »bungee junkie« Helmut Wirz or the 73-year-old race driver Connie Beavers.

ISBN 978-3-86828-303-7
35 Euro
2012