{"title":"Pre-Order","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"ddr","title":"66 Books from East Germany","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis book presents the first English-language introduction to the photobook culture of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), a field long overlooked despite its richness, complexity, and distinctive visual language.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDrawn from Thomas Wiegand’s extensive research project—published in German in 2025—this volume offers a concise and carefully structured selection of 66 photobooks produced in East Germany between 1950 and 1990. Each work is reproduced through a double-page spread combining images with short texts and bibliographical detail, creating both a visual survey and a reference tool.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe GDR placed extraordinary emphasis on photography as a cultural and ideological medium. Photobooks were expected to inform, educate, and persuade, contributing to the construction of the “socialist human being.” All publications passed through tightly controlled systems of approval, shaped by censorship, material shortages, and central planning. Yet within these constraints, a remarkable body of work emerged.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMany of the books presented here demonstrate a high level of graphic sophistication and production quality, supported by Leipzig’s long-standing printing traditions. Others reveal the visual strategies of propaganda: images of industry, agriculture, architecture, and daily life carefully composed to project optimism, order, and collective purpose. Even seemingly neutral subjects—landscapes, cityscapes, portraits—were shaped by ideological expectations.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor many years, East German photobooks remained largely absent from international histories of the medium. Their rediscovery has been gradual, often driven by collectors and researchers working at the margins of the field. Wiegand’s work represents the first sustained attempt to map this territory in depth, and to establish the GDR photobook as a significant and coherent body of work.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThomas Wiegand is widely recognised as the leading authority on East German photobooks. His larger German-language study, running to over 500 pages and including approximately 1,300 illustrations, provides the most comprehensive account of the subject to date. This English-language selection makes his research accessible to a wider audience for the first time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished by Foxed Editions, this volume forms part of a broader programme dedicated to overlooked histories of photography and the photobook. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e66 Photobooks from East Germany\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is both an introduction and an invitation: a guide to a field that challenges established narratives and expands the geography of photographic history.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thomas Wiegand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53644018418005,"sku":"1401039009101","price":32.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1013\/7563\/9893\/files\/Wiegand-DDR_product-pic.jpg?v=1781121377"},{"product_id":"camera-pictures-of-london-at-night","title":"Camera Pictures of London at Night","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\" data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"\u003eIn 1924, photographer Fred Judge produced one of the earliest photographic studies of the city of London after dark. His pioneering work was published as\u003ci\u003e Camera Pictures of London at Night \u003c\/i\u003eat a time when photography was still largely confined to daylight. \u003c\/span\u003eDue to this book being out of print for decades, Judge’s work has remained largely absent from photobook histories. This new edition restores it to view, offering contemporary audiences the chance to encounter it again.\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\" data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\" data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"\u003eJudge’s book presents London as a sequence of nocturnal impressions: streets illuminated by gas and electric light, silhouettes dissolving into shadow, and architectural forms emerging from darkness. Locations such as Tottenham Court Road, Leicester Square, and the Waldorf Hotel are rendered not as documentary records but as atmospheres—images structured as much by absence as by presence. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-left: 36.0pt;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e“What goes unseen becomes the defining protagonist of the book, as we are taken on a surface tour of the capital under nightfall.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e— Isaac Blease\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\" data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"\u003eAt the time of the original publication, the \u003ci\u003eBritish Journal of Photography\u003c\/i\u003e noted the subtlety of Judge’s handling of tonal gradation and contrast. Seen today, the work can be understood as a precursor to later and more widely recognised explorations of the modern city at night, including Harold Burdekin’s \u003ci\u003eLondon Night\u003c\/i\u003e (1934) and Bill Brandt’s \u003ci\u003eA Night in London\u003c\/i\u003e (1938). Judge’s achievement lies in his early recognition that the city after dark constituted not simply a technical challenge, but a new visual and emotional territory for photography.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-left: 36.0pt;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e“The camera seems a very feeble instrument… to capture a little, how very little, of the pictorial delights to be found in London at night.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e— Fred Judge, from the book’s foreword\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eDespite this significance, surviving copies are scarce and typically held in institutional collections or appear only occasionally at auction. This new facsimile edition restores the work to view, with careful attention to the scale, sequencing and tonal qualities of the original photogravures. The facsimile is accompanied by a new introduction by Isaac Blease, Archivist at the Martin Parr Foundation, which situates Judge's work within the broader development of British photography and the evolution of the photobook as a form. The edition forms part of Foxed Editions' commitment to recovering overlooked works that expand and enrich established photographic histories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\" data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"\u003eFred Judge (1872–1950) was a photographer, entrepreneur, and founder of Judges Ltd., one of Britain’s most successful postcard publishing companies.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eTo his contemporaries, Judge was widely-known for his commercial work, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;\" data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"\u003eCamera Pictures of London at Night \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\" data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"\u003ereveals a more experimental and ambitious dimension of his practice. 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