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After opening the exhibition “Reister & Von Aspern: Berlin + Wien” at BURJUAR, Berlin, with some busloads of nice audience last friday it is now open until March 23ed. Then the pictures will be sent to Vienna for the second exhibition at Eigensinnig Schauraum für Mode und Fotografie. Meanwhile the book is ready for order online. Today I’m going to carry 24 books to the post office. The book is limited to 100 copies only, so this is a forth of the whole edition. Huuuu…

More Infos:

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All about the book

Exhibition at BURJUAR, Berlin

Exhibition at Eigensinnig, Vienna

Huh! It has been quite hectic getting this new baby ready for print in the last couple of weeks and YES we are in happy anticipation that everything will be in time and fresh out of the printery for this week’s opening in Berlin! Hurray! But what is this all about?

Well, it is an inspiring book about fancy summer activities.

It’s a book about life qualitiy in the two lovely cities Berlin and Vienna.

There is a 4,5 page super duper essay by the one and only Andrea Diener!

As well as some lovely philosophical lines from Nick Turpin who describes the essence of our photographic approach much better than we could do.

And of course there are 46 beautifully taken and carefully chosen photos inside! Brought to you directly from the producers!

It’s an outstanding guide on how to exercise in public…

…or to get your traffic problems solved with or without public transport.

It is definitly a PARTY HARD book!

..with lots of fashionable inspiration.

Of course, we have some urban gardening as well…

…and after all it is simply a book about the basic needs of human kind!

There will be a limited edition of numbered 100 copies only, available at the exhibitions in Berlin and Vienna for the price of € 20.
You may also order it on the web. I’ll put up an order page soon.

Finally all technical data from the indie photobook library questionaire:

Title: Berlin + Wien

Photographer/s: Christian Reister, Kay von Aspern

Texts: Andrea Diener (German) and Nick Turpin (English)

Date of publication: March 1^st, 2013

Place of publication: Berlin, Germany

Dimensions: ca. 14,8 x 21 cm.

Edition: limited. 100 copies, numbered

Type of binding: hardcover, perfect binding

Type of printing: digital

Number of pages: 64

Number of pictures: 46

Printer: Buch- und Offsetdruckerei Häuser KG, Köln

Publisher: self-published by Christian Reister and Kay von Aspern

Designer: Christian Reister

Editor: Christian Reister

ISBN: nono, we are so indie that we don’t even have an ISBN

Category: Artist book

Price: 20 Euro

Summary: Street photography from Germany’s and Austria’s capital cities from 2006 to 2012. All picures from Vienna by Kay von Aspern, all from Berlin by Christian Reister.

One of the most inspiring photobooks for me this year is MONO Volume One from Gomma Books. The book sold out within a month and provides a great overview on contemporary black and white photography with well known names like Petersen, Ackerman, Parke or Ballen along with younger emerging photogaphers.
Book video.

A big collection of “flip through photobook videos” can be found on Have a nice Book, a website by Yosigo and Salva López. The soundtracks may sound a little bit strange sometimes but the mix between photobook classics and self-published books is quite inspiring and outstanding. You can spend hours there…

Kickoff for the weekend: Larry Clark exhibition opening at c/o Berlin where at the same time the c/o Berlin book days start. The program for tomorrow contains lectures, discussions and finally a Photobook Slam. Again there is a focus on self-published photobooks.

Videos about Larry Clark: on arte.tv and on youtube.

There’s a new blog with lots of photobook reviews in German on kasselerfotobuchblog.de.

Just in time for christmas: our friends from emerge-mag.com have their first book ready for subscription. It covers 276 pages with 26 reportages from German photographres Christian Pankratz, Gesche Jäger, Daniel Pilar, Anne Lass, Nicole Strasser, Lene Münch, Mareike Günsche, Jan Windszus, Frederic Lezmi, Anikka Bauer, Tine Casper, Daniel Etter, Mischa Christen, Kirill Golovchenko, Hannes Jung, Heinrich Völkel, Jan Brandes, Gordon Welters, Florian Manz, Judith Stenneken, Rebecca Sampson, Jonas Ludwig Walter, Andy Spyra, Dawin Meckel, Anna-Kristina Bauer and Felix Seuffert. The preview pages look promising.

Hamburg based photographer Petra Herbert did a lovely photo project in Pforzheim, the city she lived until she turned 18. This series was a special discovery for me as I grew up near Pforzheim in Southern Germany and lived in town for a few year at the beginning of my 20s . Check an interview (in German) and photographs from her artist book “What we’ve got is Gold” on the pages of SZ Magazin online.

After the release of Henrik Verning’s book Berlin – Die Stadt und die Beute in 2008 I asked him if he would like to exhibit some of his photographs at FENSTER61. He exhibited some new work there in 2009 and some of the pictures are now part of his new publication Sampler.01/Berlin:Crash. Verning shows a collection of photographs with hard contrasts in grainy black and white. A wild mixture of steet impressions, close-ups, portraits, animals and night visions that drag you through a dark, rough and blurry version of the city.

The magazine is planned to be published as a limited edition of 100 on a regular basis. Here’s a video on vimeo that gives an impression about the first issue.

Sol Neelman from Portland released a funny photobook called ‘Weird Sports’ which contains a collection of his photographs taken on freaky sports events in the US during the last eight years. His long term project ist documented with a lot more photos on his blog.
There are interviews with Neelman about how he ist working on The Image, Deconstructed and on the aperture blog.

I attended a lecture by Andreas Meichsner at Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, two or three years ago and pretty much liked his photo series he presented at the time. Those series, combined with some new ones, also dealing with his main subject tourism, are now published in his book „Alles in Ordnung“ („Everything is okay“). Jörg Colberg ist presenting it in a new video of his book presentation series on youtube.

Gundula Schulze Eldowy’s Berlin in einer Hundenacht / Berlin on a Dog’s Night will be finally released as a book this september. Her combination of text and photographs from East Berlin in the late seventies and eighties are outstanding and definitly one of the most intimate photographic works about East Berlin that I know. I never understood why those stories were only published as a pdf on her website and shown in some exhibitions. There are some previews on her redesigned website. Also interesting: an interview on youtube.

As a part of the Indie Photobook Library, my book ALEX is on exhibition at the New York Photo Festival this weekend like it was at the snap! Festival in Orlando, Florida last weekend. So if you should be around Dumbo…

Found this thread in a forum while googleing myself the other day. It’s interesting to read discussions like that about your own work and YES it should never be the intention to be everybody’s darling ;-)

Image from my book ALEX.

I discovered Rosalind Solomon’s book Chapalingas recently, which is a 460 page retrospective of the American photographer who started taking pictures not before the age of 38. The 200 images are in the most part portraits in a very intense and poetic documentary style. They were taken all over the word, different cultures, different decades and contexts but always middle format, 6×6 in black and white. The straight line in technique gives the book a clear thread while crossing all boundaries at the same time. A very impressing book by a very impressing artist.

There is a selection of her work on her official website and there are interesting interviews on americansuburbx.com and 2point8.