Books

This special gift set includes: the book Brasilia by René Burri , 2011, a set of 10 A5 postcards from the artist, a Bildhalle catalogue and a Bildhalle cotton bag....

This special gift set includes: the book On Listening to Trees by Albarrán Cabrera, 2023, a set of 10 A5 postcards from the artists, a Bildhalle catalogue and a Bildhalle...

This special gift set includes: the book Italia Thomas Hoepker, 2023, a set of 10 A5 postcards from the pictures in the book, a Bildhalle catalogue and a Bildhalle cotton...

This special gift set includes: the book The way it was by Thomas Hoepker, 2022, a set of 10 A5 postcards from the pictures in the book, a Bildhalle catalogue...

The book is organised around three main themes that run through Aëgerter’s work: the elasticity of time, the other side of the coin, the repair of existences. Fannie Escoulen It...

Gone Fishing is an ode to the outdoors, spectacular scenery, brisk winds and cold hands, wet feet, a crackling fire and the joy of the catch. The visual contemplation about...

It is a limitied special edition of 12 with 20 fine art prints signed and numbered by Bruno Augsburger (32.5 x 24 cm). Gone Fishing is an ode to the...

Antiquarian book Please be advised that this book exhibits some visible damage in small areas, as illustrated in the accompanying images. Signed by the artist, this catalogue documents Richard Avedon’s...

This catalog has been published to accompany the exhibition at the House of Photography Deichtorhallen Hamburg from 27 November 2009 to 21 February 2010. The work of Lillian Bassman (1917...

'For the Korean people, pines are foundations for their soul.' Bae, Bien-U Bae, Bien-U (*1950 in Yeosu) is regarded as one of Korea’s most important artists, a photographer who has...

Bildhalle is a gallery dedicated to classic and contemporary photography and photo-based art. The gallery represents a highly curated selection of artists from around the world with a strong focus...

Order a costumized voucher with your choice of subject and amount with info@bildhalle.ch. A gift voucher for Bildhalle is a present bursting with ideas. Choose between artbooks, special editions or...

Werner Bischof's work is inspired by integrity and compassion. At the center is the human being, the human condition. It is eerie how little has changed, how up-to-date many of...

Some 200 of Werner Bischof’s Devin Tricolor negatives have been restored and a selection of them is published for the first time ever in this book. Swiss photographer Werner Bischof...

Winner of Swedish Photobook Prize 2021 Limited edition of 350 books signed and numbered by Martin Bogren, including a signed print on thin, handtoned paper (20 x 16 cm). Hollow...

Wandering in an imaginary city, Metropolia invites the viewer on a dreamlike stroll punctuated by enigmatic encounters. The urban space is apprehended in fragments, guessed over the silhouettes that we...

The photographer delivers a series pierced by a form of abandonment, of letting go that he translates through rough or dreamlike images. His photographs suddenly appear as subjective visions that...

Martin Bogren photographs with the distance of a mute witness, a subtle and benevolent observer. His images are grainy black and white with shades of grey. Youngsters meet up on...

A book that not only reflects the tranquillity and violence of the mountains, but also captures the challenges of the various sports in unique action pictures. Robert Bösch, one of...

This book presents a personal, completely subjective «fountain-of-youth-selection» of the black and white work made by Dino Simonett in hommage to Burri's sixty-fifth birthday - each photograph capturing and revealing...

During his career, Magnum photographer René Burri produced a large number of photographs in which he processed a wide variety of motifs. The publication Berner Blitz , which was produced...

The year 2010 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the inauguration of Brazil’s capital, Brasilia. Designed by architects Lúcio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer, it has since become one of the most...

The book brings together for the first time Burri’s entire body of work, both photographic and nonphotographic, including previously unpublished archival documents, as well as book designs, exhibition projects, travel...

As a world-renowned photojournalist and celebrated member of Magnum photo agency, René Burri’s photographs have had a huge influence on our visual understanding of the major political and cultural events...

René Burri's photographs have written history: his work is a mirror of politics and society, of turning points, triumphs and crises over the course of half a century. Whether it...

Limited edition of 50 Signed & numbered by René Burri Only book number 2 of 50 is available. 'Trois Fois Chez Nous' is signed and numbered by Burri on the...

Immobility makes me think of the large spaces in which movements occur that don’t stop at a given moment, movements that have no end. Joan Miró Between 1969 and 1976...

Those who have learned to listen to trees no longer want to be a tree. They do not yearn to be anything what they are. That is home. And that...

Limited edition of 40 with a toned gelatin silver print (11 x 17 cm). The book Pale Blue ● is a symbolic trip from where humans are now and moving...

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the...

Winner of The Best Book in the national category at PhotoEspaña 2019 Winner of José Lázaro Galdiano 2019 award​​​​​​​. We are all at the mercy of nature – small creatures...

Photography is not the thing. It is the thing that gets us to the thing. Atkins used photography to illustrate nature and its structure. In a similar way, we use...

Limited edition of 500 Each signed by the artist and numbered, bound in linen and slipcased. Michel Comte’s book of erotic photographs of a Japanese geisha by the name of...

For as long as I can remember I have felt most at peace outdoors. Nature has always been my refuge and sanctuary. I find the natural world to be endlessly...

For as long as I can remember I have felt most at peace outdoors. Nature has always been my refuge and sanctuary. I find the natural world to be endlessly...

Over these last several years, even in the darkest days of the pandemic, my time in nature has been a constant source of solace and wonder. My days out photographing...

Jeffrey Conley’s photographs are a series of suspended parentheses with the living, the manifestation of waking dreams before the magic of nature, all captured through his profound sensitivity. But beyond...

Having grown up in the northeastern United States, I can vividly remember the childhood feeling of waking up on a Winters’ morning and looking out the window at a magical,...

The work of Paul Cupido revolves around the principle of Mu , a philosophical concept that is open to countless interpretations. Mu is both a personal and a universal exploration,...

All orders will be shipped from the 3rd of June onwards. Limited edition of 500 Each hand numbered. First edition and only edition (no re-print). In Drifting Stones, Paul Cupido...

Wherever his worldwide photographic explorations take him, Paul Cupido brings to bear his childhood experience of growing up on an island on his images and the way he prefers to...

D’Agostin’s acrobats float through time and space in a silent dance of light. Maybe a hardly successful show for a western audience as lacking of all the special effects, music...

A sense of power that seethes beneath the unnatural stillness evolves through the images. On August 15, 2012 Renato D’Agostin spent two hours on the volcano Etna in Sicily. The...

Kapadokya belongs solely to the myth. It was once inhabited, in the middle of traffic plying the ancient Anatolia by connecting the logic west with the east of religion, the...

This is not simply a book of photographs, then, but a collection of possible “visions” of the city. The images are not made complete or defined by their contours; rather,...

Tokyo Untitled is a perfect name for a place in the mind. A place that can only be accessed through the eyes; a visual place. [...] Tokyo is enormous because...

Renato D’Agostin captures visual elements and leaves his singular mark on every picture. Mastering every aspect of his silver gelatin photography, Renato D’Agostin knows better than anyone how to imbue...

Beauty against a background of apparent decay. Beauty is central to the artworks of visual artist Casper Faassen. The tranquil, eternal and beautiful is shown against a background of decay....

In Farassat’s work each image is changed back into an object, making it both a critique of the image and an eye-catching device. Sequence is an artist’s book that combines...

Using exemplary positions, this book traces the transformation of the photographic image from the 1940s to the present day: from the fashion magazine to the showroom and the coffee table...

Vivid, bold, spectacular and unexpected: Flora Photographica provides a definitive overview of one of contemporary photography's most innovative fields, showcasing flower imagery by more than 120 of the world's leading...

Text in French. Flor Garduno's images are inspired by the ancient Mexicans' sense of magical time, which enfolds microcosm and macrocosm in its mysterious and infinite dimensions. The photographs include...

The moving portrait of etenity. Carlos Fuentes (Socrates) Flor Garduno's intense black-and-white work from the remote regions of Central and South America has garnered well-deserved praise. In this new volume,...

There are two sample copies left. They show some signs of use. If you would like more details or pictures, please send us an email at info@bildhalle.ch. It is a...

Stephen Gill has again used his surroundings as the inspiration for this beautiful and evocative series. Hackney Flowers has evolved from his series and book Hackney Wick. This times Gill...

Every photographic event holds secrets and draws us magically inside. Curiosity is aroused and we are suddenly mentally awake. In attentive observation, we are instantly touched, taken in, completely immersed...

Limited edition of 800 The young woman from the outland ... she waits ... for work, for an encounter, for friendship, for some conversation - perhaps for love. Swiss photographer...

After his wonderful poetic and capturing black and white photography, color became for René Groebli the actual major topic, the challenge that had to be faced and overcome technically and...

Limited edition of 1.000 First published in 1954, the photo book Das Auge der Liebe (The Eye of Love) by Swiss photographer René Groebli is a small book featuring images...

Limited edition of 100 First published in 1954, the photo book The Eye of Love by Swiss photographer René Groebli is a small book featuring images that were made during...

René Groebli is the missing link in the Swiss photographic history of the second half of the 20th century. He merges the romanticism in photography with the visions of the...

Limited edition of 350 Cover: Original gelatin silver print handmade by René Groebli Collotype/phototype The illustrations in this work were reproduced by hand collotype and printed on a Voirin collotype...

Second limited edition of 250 A few days before christmas 1949, the young Swiss photographer René Groebli arrived at Victoria station in fog-bound, bombed-out London. For two weeks he wandered...

74 photographs, taken with either a Leica III F with one single lens (Elmar 50 mm, 1:3.5) or with the old twin-lens Rolleiflex. In 1949 René Groebli shot a series...

Sometimes Groebli's work seems more akin to painting or at least to a pictorial kind of photography. In place of blurring brush strokes or filters he uses the grain of...

Limited edition of 12 with 12 platinum palladium prints (43 x 32 cm). Each portfolio contains 12 platinum palladium prints made by the artist himself with passepartouts (50 x 40...

Limited edition of 20 with 12 platinum palladium prints (43 x 32 cm). It was their honeymoon in 1952 that took the Swiss photographer René Groebli and his wife Rita...

This photography book is the first-ever presentation of René Groebli’s pictures spanning a good half-century. We cannot help feeling that here at work is a shaman of photographic grain and...

Limited edition of 30 with a signed and numbered book & carbon pigment print (42 x 29.5 cm) . The print with the title Cupid/Amor (#508), The Eye of Love,...

The first part of this essential handbook provides an art-business analysis of the market for art photography and explains how to navigate it; the second is an art-historical account of...

A book of deeply personal and lush photographs, drawings, and writing, Blue Violet is Cig Harvey's celebration of the natural world and the senses. Blue Violet is a vibrant meditation...

Following her celebrated monograph Blue Violet , Harvey continues her personal study of sensory experience, focusing on the ephemeral nature of light, pigment, and vision. These latest photographs are lush...

Launching a new education and conservation project that connects people from different cultures, this dazzling series by renowned photographer Pieter Henket gives ancient folklore a modern-day spin. The Congo Basin...

Last available signed copies. Please, be aware that all copies are slightly damaged on one corner. Contact info@bildhalle for more information. This exciting book highlights excerpts from a most unusual...

It started as our pandemic project in August 2020, as we were looking at his very first black and white film negative files and started scanning. After that, we had...

Thomas Hoepker was 27 years old when he set out on his ambitious journey across the United States - one that took him from coast to coast and back again...

Swedish artist duo Inka & Niclas manipulate the visual mechanics of nature photographs and playfully examine the everyday usage of landscape imagery. This book presents a selection of the duo's...

The selection of some 230 images she has now made for and their composition in this new book reveal a consistent artistic perspective and a signature style. And even today,...

It is not easy to determine, so soon after these pictures were taken, just how incisive and perceptive they are, because they doubtless reflect Simone Kappeler's own values and senibility...

Simone Kappeler's first photographs with the Diana camera were taken in 1981 during a three-month trip to the trip to the USA. The work Diana presents the results of her...

Limited edition of 700 hand numbered & hand stamped books. For A Fleeting Moment is Simone Kappeler's first book gathered exclusively a part of her wide polaroid works from 2011...

Schildbuckel. Nabel. Mittelpunkt. Knopf. Schlussstein. Omphalos enstand in den Jahren 1983-1989. Die Herausgabe dieses Buches erfolgte mit Unterstützung der Schweizer Kulturstiftung Pro Helvetia, des Erziehungsdepartements des Katons Thurgau, der Thurgauischen...

Seeing with Different Eyes. Pratically no other contemporary photographic oeuvre repeats the history of phoography as well as Simone Kappeler's does. Bernd-Alexander Stiegler Study of her work reveals not only...

Splash presents a rigorous selection of Philipp Keel's photographs from the last decade. Keel’s luminous, color-intense images celebrate the pleasure and strange beauty of random details and objects. While his...

The most beautiful summers are often also the most painful. We rarely feel more alive. And at the end of those summers, we’re reminded all the more strongly that everything...

Limited edition of 100 books signed and numbered by Max Kellenberger, including a signed print. Was im Licht erscheint contains about 40 years of Max Kellenberger's viewpoint on the world....

A plastic shopping bag, a hoover hose or a piece of aluminium foil. A cake border becomes a collar, a lampshade a headgear. Hendrik Kerstens plays with the characteristics of...

As an author and curator, the photo historian Hans-Michael Koetzle draws on countless personal encounters and extensive conversations with the great personalities of photography, as well as on meticulous archival...

Kacper brings many questions, in his newest work it seems like he is digging deeper where nature, snow, water and wildlife make forms that few of us have seen. At...

Winner of international Photography Awards - IPA. With the onset of winter, I embarked on a journey in search of harmony. Driven by instinct, I ventured further and further, until...

In Kings Road Mona Kuhn lyrically reconsiders the realms of time and space within the architectural elements of the Schindler House in Los Angeles. Built by Austrian architect Rudolph M....

Mona Kuhn. Works is an essential volume for anyone with an interest in the human form in contemporary art. Mona Kuhn. Works is the first retrospective by one of the...

Take your own body or the leached body of your mother your father your brother your sister. Transparent body of glass of leaves of encoded messages to the past and...

Friction - A movement of becoming, of eternal becoming. When reading the texts of Simone de Beauvoir, I sometimes feel as if my own inner thoughts about life are being...

Limited edition of 450. All pre-ordered books will be shipped from the end of August onwards. A Distant Smell of Dust by Douglas Mandry will be launched for the first...

In a digital age of ever-faster technological innovation, Douglas Mandry explores the photographic medium. Using analog methods, he retouches each image by hand, using either vintage photographic processes or by...

“Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past”. James Joyce, Ulysses David Parker’s large-scale landscape projects have their origins in a study of the...

The intention of «Plastic Ocean» is to create awareness around pollution and to try to prevent the use of plastic. Walking on the beach, Schaap finds plastic that has washed...

Number 2894 of l imited edition of 3300 A highly collectable, limited facsimile edition Stephen Shore is one of the most important photographers of the twentieth century. A pioneer of...

Willy Spiller's legendary series of the New York Subway 1977 - 1984 in a newly published book with a new design and never before seen images. In May of 1977,...

Willy Spiller's legendary series of the New York Subway 1977 - 1984 in a newly published book with a new design and never before seen images. Limited edition of 150...

Willy Spiller's legendary series of the New York Subway 1977 - 1984 in a newly published book with a new design and never before seen images. Limited edition of 150...

Limited edition of 500 People want and love stories. On the street, stories tell themselves. The street is the great endless narrative of life. I am fascinated by street photography....

Le catalogue de l'exposition des Rencontres d'Arles 2025: une référence sur Louis Stettner, artiste prolifique et inclassable. Né en 1922 à Brooklyn, fils d'immigrants juifs originaires d'Autriche-Hongrie, Louis Stettner est...

Louis Stettner (1922-2016), dont l’œuvre mêle les influences de la street photography américaine et de la photographie humaniste française, s’est dédié toute sa vie aux luttes sociales et à l’observation...

A major new monograph on the American photographer Louis Stettner (1922–2016), published to accompany the largest retrospective on his work to date. Brooklyn-born Louis Stettner (1922–2016) created thousands of images...

Limited edition of 50. Signed, numbered & handmade by Rachel Thomson. Rachel Thomson's work is inspired by a fascination with mimesis and affected by a concern for loss of biodiversity...

Limited edition of 1,000 boxed sets Jakob Tuggener’s key photographic motifs were conditions in the factory, simple life in the countryside and the glamour of high society. At the same...

Before there was Instagram, there was Warhol Andy Warhol was a relentless chronicler of life and its encounters. Carrying a Polaroid camera from the late 1950s until his death in...

Champions is a photographic series by Bastiaan Woudt, shot in Zambia to celebrate 25 years of Orange Babies. The project highlights the resilience of communities supported by Orange Babies, an...

Bastiaan Woudt has a long-standing fascination with the African continent, as is evident from his previous work - Bastiaan Woudt in Marokko. A project to photograph the Ugandan countryside was...

Being disconnected from the rest of the world, and therefore with the opportunity to reflect on life. Bastiaan Woudt Peak is a photo book that shows us Bastiaan Woudt's trip...

Immerse yourself in the captivating visual world of Bastiaan Woudt through Rhythm a 10-year retrospective photobook by 1605 Publishers that brings together a stunning collection of monochrome portraits, landscapes, and...

Immerse yourself in the captivating visual world of Bastiaan Woudt through Rhythm a 10-year retrospective photobook by 1605 Publishers that brings together a stunning collection of monochrome portraits, landscapes, and...