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Bildband Berlin

Photography Bookstore Bildband Berlin is a dedicated photography bookshop in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin.

We stock the greats in picture books, and the greats to be, rarities and prints.

25/06/2026

LAMF IS IN BERLIN!
John Gossage - LAMF: Three Days in Berlin, 1987
Hour Press 2026
John Gossage Magic Hour Press

John Gossage’s LAMF: Three Days in Berlin, 1987, first conceived as a hand-assembled book exclusively for his friends, is a consummate example of the photobook as art.

Gossage used a custom telephoto lens and 6000 ASA film to shoot the area around the Berlin Wall and into the ‘no-man’s land’, capturing the dark atmosphere of a divided city. This new edition of LAMF, made in close collaboration with the photographer, features an expanded edit of 44 images (twice as many as the original) printed in lush tritone with special silkscreen UV varnish to emulate the original’s tipped on gelatin silver prints.

The book also comes with a new interview with publisher Jordan Weitzman about the book’s genesis and Gossage’s long fixation on Berlin, also the subject of his acclaimed books Stadt des Schwarz and Berlin in the Time of the Wall.

What was once one of the rarest books in Gossage’s oeuvre, can now be had by all: a masterpiece of the photobook medium by one of its most prolific practitioners, and a moving artifact of Cold War history.

18/06/2026

Join our new membership program for photographers, artists and photobook lovers 🖤

What you get:
✔️10% off selected Books online and in the shop
✔️ 5% off All books, online and in the shop
✔️ 20% off workshops
✔️ Free application to open calls such as the darkroom residency
✔️ Invitation to a yearly membership party
✔️ Free tote bag with your first purchase
✔️ Monthly spotlight for members - share your project with our network!

✔️✔️✔️Support Bildband with only 12 euro a month

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09/06/2026

Ryan Spencer - There Is No Light at the End of the Tunnel Because the Tunnel Is Made of Light
TBW Books 2024

In 1996, rock band The Afghan Whigs released their album Black Love, a musical opus that changed the lives of many of the group’s loyal followers. The well-known lore that a film would accompany the record never came to fruition, leaving devotees to wonder what such a visual accompaniment might have looked like. There Is No Light at the End of the Tunnel Because the Tunnel Is Made of Light is Ryan Spencer’s personal rendering of this mythical film (that never was) in book form. Using stills from neo-noir films set in Los Angeles that could quite possibly exist as scenes from the imagined moving picture, and with a keen understanding of and appreciation for photography and old cinema, the artist stitches together a narrative directed by the song titles and linear narratives of The Afghan Whigs’ epic record. Rebecca Bengal’s fictional essay anchors the book’s stylized, physical “pulp” qualities.

04/06/2026

Maria Lax - Stray Sod (signed)
Setanta Books 2026

Stray Sod investigates the phenomenon of the same name in Irish folklore: enchanted patches of earth that will lead astray whoever steps on them. Inspired by first-hand accounts found in the Irish National Archives, Maria Lax reimagines rural Irish landscapes through this otherworldly lens.

The stories therein describe instances in which individuals are forced to navigate a world characterised by sudden shifts into unfamiliarity and strangeness. A world in which established reference points distort and slip away, causing great distress to those experiencing it. Stray Sod draws timely parallels between these stories and the destabilizing effects of the fast-changing political and technological environment of today.

07/05/2026

Swan Moon’s Swan Moon
TBW Books 2025

Swan Moon’s Swan Moon is a diaristic portrait of youth, identity, and performance set against the faded glamour of 1990s Los Angeles. Swan Moon revisits her teenage years as a Korean American growing up in the cultural shadow of Hollywood—where cinema’s myths loomed large and personal history blurred with fantasy.

While alternative youth were raving and Larry Clark’s Kids was defining a generation, Moon and her friends were doing something profoundly divergent: dressing in vintage clothing, staging impromptu, cinematically adjacent environments, and living out an aesthetic that was wildly out of sync with the time. The work feels improvised, playful—shot with flea market props and makeshift lighting which carried with it an amateurish charm. Moon wasn’t imitating Cindy Sherman—she had yet to know that name let alone see the iconic Untitled Film Stills—but she was drawing directly from the language of cinema, attempting to insert herself and her circle within the medium’s canon.

The photographs echo mid-century domesticity—gestures borrowed from the 1950s and ’60s—but subverted through the awareness and often overwrought angst of the 1990s. Sexuality here is present but subdued, expressed with a tenderness that would soon be obliterated by the onset of the Internet’s rise. There’s humor, style and an earnest make-believe that is refreshing in light of today’s hyper self-awareness and image saturation.

Designed with a nod to Hollywood’s silver screen, Swan Moon’s Swan Moon includes a curated soundtrack and character credits at the book’s conclusion. An afterword by the esteemed writer Chris Kraus brings clarity and context to Moon’s love letter to a nostalgic Los Angeles—her version of the city and its youthful inhabitants that feels both deeply personal and entirely lost to time.

06/05/2026

Bildband is excited to support the new open call by the Sonntag Grant for Photography ().

In collaboration with Replika Publishing (.publishing), they invite FLINTA (female, le***an, inter, non-binary, trans, agender) artists to submit to the photobook open call.

One artist will work directly with Replika Publishing to produce a new fully funded photobook.

After completion, there will be a book launch event here at Bildband Berlin (.berlin), with travel and accommodation included.

Submissions are open until May 31st.

Full information can be found at sonntag-grant.org.

Image courtesy of Replika Publishing, with work .copeland

04/05/2026

Franziska Rieder - New York Dirty
Happy Press 2026

“(…) New York Diary is neither a monograph nor a memoir. But it is a bit of both. It tells the story of a girl from East Germany who comes of age discovered as a photo model on the streets of New York City in the late 1990s. The story is told in three parts: through photographic snapshots of the city and its people, through messages on an answering machine and finally through ephemera and memorabilia such as personal notes, polaroids, behind the scenes, fashion editorials, campaigns. All in all, it is an ode to the city of New York at a specific point in time.“

30/04/2026

New books in our room 🌸

28/04/2026

Yasutaka Kojima - Naka-ima Berlin
Roshin Books 2026

With “Berlin,” Japan-born and Berlin-based photographer Yasutaka Kojima presents the third entry in his series “Naka-ima,” following New York and Tokyo.
Shooting in black and white, Kojima photographed walls, doors and entrances all over the German capital. Flattening the distances of three-dimensional space and ordering visual elements like stairs, pavements, windows, trees, graffiti, flowerpots, ladders, tiles, flaking paint, ramps, metal fences and myriad other objects into eerily pleasant compositions, Kojima aims not only to explore space and its possibilities but also the constraints and deeper meanings of transient time.

“Time, in [the Koshinto concept of Naka-ima], is a circulation of temporal flow, forming a single circle in which beginning and end coexist – an endlessly turning ‘eternal now.’”
― from Yasutaka Kojima’s afterword

“Kojima’s photographic process begins by encountering a place first; the camera comes later. He does not ascribe excessive meaning to individual features such as windows, graffiti or stains on walls. He neither closes in enough to create abstraction nor steps back enough to capture a landscape. Instead, he maintains a transitional distance, facing his subjects with a refreshing sense of clarity that almost erases his own presence. There is a certain elegance and grace to his approach.”

― from Risaku Suzuki’s essay “A transitional distance”

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