Publications

STORIES | April 9, 2024

Book tip: My grandfather turned into a tiger… and other illusions

Family, cultural heritage and the construction of memory and history: in her monograph, Pao Houa Her, an American photographer who was born in Laos, weaves various series together, to create an exciting sequence of personal images.

STORIES | February 27, 2024

Book tip: Measuring Time

Memory and empathy: the new photo book, Measuring Time. The Photographs of Jeffrey A. Wolin, presents the American photographer's most important series.

STORIES | January 30, 2024

Book tip: Plexus

In search of ghosts and secrets of the past: German photographer Elena Helfrecht explored her family's estate, in order to come to terms with memories and inherited trauma.

STORIES | December 14, 2023

LFI Special: Photo Books

Leica classics and book recommendations: the LFI editorial team has made a selection from among the wealth of new publications.

STORIES | November 8, 2023

Book tip: No Ponte

Planned for decades, yet never brought to fruition: a photographic essay by Swiss photographer Giuseppe Micciché on the idea of a bridge between Sicily and the Italian mainland.

STORIES | September 29, 2023

Book tip: Burt Glinn. Half a Century as a Magnum Photographer

Burt Glinn

A comprehensive monograph of Burt Glinn’s work has appeared, fifteen years after the passing of the legendary photojournalist, Leica photographer and Magnum member.

STORIES | August 17, 2023

Book tip: From the Heads of the Hollers

Classic and impressive images by American photographer Shelby Lee Adams from the Appalachians in the US state of Kentucky – a homage to a frequently overlooked community.

STORIES | July 20, 2023

Book tip: Proof of Work

Bitcoin, Ethereum, mining: get the picture? Visualising abstract concepts and procedures, giving technology a face: Danny Franzreb's illustrated book achieves this in an extremely exciting way.

STORIES | June 13, 2023

Book tip: Protege Noctem

Moths, bats and, above all, human beings are the victims of the constant increase in light pollution. This exciting book by Mattia Balsamini reports on the dramatic consequences of the loss of darkness.

STORIES | May 16, 2023

Book tip: Hell on Wheels – New York Subway 1977–1984

Willy Spiller

Once a dark world, today a timely document: the photo book, complementing the photographer's exhibitions in Zurich and Amsterdam, invites the reader to rediscover the New York subway.

STORIES | April 14, 2023

Book tip: Vast Land

Symbols of change: using the examples of Myanmar and its three capital cities – Mandalay, Yangon, Naypyidaw – German photographer Wolfgang Bellwinkel explored what architecture has to say about claims to power and the self-image of those in power.

STORIES | March 20, 2023

Book of the Month: Atlantic Cowboy

As far as their gender image is concerned, the men appear to have fallen out of time. Formerly self-confident and conscious of tradition, the Atlantic cowboy is today a disappearing species, as the Norwegian photographer Andrea Gjestvang clearly illustrates in her series.