Photobooks I discovered this year – Part 2/3

It's more a catalogue than a book, and it'm more about the works than the object. Deana's photos are direct, irritating and somehow disturbing in the same time.

A beautiful, smooth little book published by Poursuite. It shows pictures of unknown women, found in one box in the archives of the French Society of photography. Get it here.

I never heard of Susanne Klippel before, until I've received her book "Schwarz war ihr Haar". The photos in this book strongly reminded me of Anders Petersen's "Café Lehmitz"; they show similar characters in the same part of the city (Hamburg / St. Pauli), even around the same time – around the end of the seventies. While Anders Petersen focuses on the protagonists of Café Lehmitz, Susanne Klippel's portraits are about the women of St. Pauli and their surroundings and lives. And you can still get her books for very little money.

I discoverd this book in a bookstore in Vienna. It's not her latest book, but I liked a lot the intimacy and tenderness shared in these images. Check her website here.