Books published by Steidl Publishers

Part of the Tower Series, this is the third and final book of photographs on the themes of vision and power in military architecture. Surveying a radar station just inside the Canadian Arctic, it examines the detection of invisible threats through unmanned observation posts in remote regions.

New York in the 1980s and the first half of the 90s was clearly a different place than it is now: the city was more violent, the street stranger, and Times Square still wonderfully sleazy. A mix of spot news and street photography, this book features black-and-white images that capture crime scenes as well as everyday life.

Offers fresh perspectives on the African archive, reimagining its diverse histories and changing meanings. This title investigates typical representations of African subjects, from scenes in nature and romanticized images of semi-nude models, to modern sitters posing in stylized studios.

While travelling overland to India from Europe in the fall of 1971, the author ran into the war between India and Pakistan, and he spent the following winter in neighbouring Afghanistan. He returned nearly every year until 1978, when he left the country three days before a Communist coup. This book tells his story.

The soaring, rigid walls of the tenement blocks torn open by the bombing of World War II dominated the German streetscapes of the 1950s. Fire walls, originally integrated in the building and serving as fire shields, became visible and turned into outer walls. That is how the technical term got a meaning. This book deals with this topic.

In 2008, the author survived a suicide bombing while travelling with an Afghan opium eradication team near Jalalabad. This is a retrospective selection of images of the country where he has covered everything from civil war and the rise of the Taliban in the 1990s, to the launch of Operation Enduring Freedom and the ongoing war on terrorism.

A publication that focuses on the early work of Richard Serra, one of the most influential artists working today. It includes works that represent the beginning of the artists innovative, process-oriented experiments with non-traditional materials, such as vulcanized rubber, neon, and lead, in addition to key early examples of his work in steel.

Between 1999 and 2011 David Goldblatt created personal photography in color for the first time. This book brings together a selection of Goldblatts color photography in South Africa from 2002 to 2011.

Features black-and-white photographs that conspicuously favor close-up depictions of details as opposed to general views: leftover items, barbed wire fences, spacious dormitories viewed through a spyhole, the key in the lock to Mandela's cell which is so tiny it cannot be taken as a whole.

Robert Polidori is known for his large format photographs of habitats and rooms saturated with the traces of human intervention. This title turns the lens around to reveal the portraits of people that he has encountered in his work of over thirty years photographing around the world, particularly in the Middle East and India.

Considers the film stills of one of the most accomplished photographers of the twentieth century, transgressing the borders between still photography and the moving image.

Workers from KwaNdebele catch buses in the early morning, some as early as 2:45 am, in order to be at their workplaces in Pretoria by 7:00. This title takes you on their bone-jarring journeys through the night, which is a metaphor for their arduous struggle toward freedom itself.