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About EDITION LAMMERHUBER
IT’S ALL ABOUT PASSION …

Dear followers of lovely and complicated books,

“An extraordinary publisher, dedicated to little known themes, who presents them with courage and high quality, without descending into stereotypes.” This is how the jury of the FEP European Book Prize of the Year Awards argued their alternative of Edition Lammerhuber for Best Publisher 2017, an accolade additionally awarded to the writer from Baden bei Wien within the previous competitions in 2013 and 2015 of this biennial occasion.

Present on the e book marketplace for greater than seven years, with a steadily rising programme, we have now labored our technique to the highest – internationally. Your are greatest at what you like doing. And we love books, we love images. The photobook is the best medium to mix these loves. Photography paperwork the world in a really explicit method and shapes human reminiscence like no different medium does. Our ambition is twofold: We wish to publish books with fascinating themes from artwork and science, with glorious images, refined texts and sensible authors, however, most of all, we wish to make books which have one thing to say, books that transport essential themes into the center of society. For us, a e book charged with emotional images is a degree of reference for communication that reverberates far past the variety of bought copies. We consider that we are able to  make an actual affect with a e book. For us, a e book is not only a commodity however an incomparable cultural method.

Edition Lammerhuber desires to be the writer for writer-photographers, for whom seeing is a vocation and whose methods of seeing the world is a means of insights. A course of they’re able to reworking into the immediacy of {a photograph}, a artistic act, initiated and accomplished inside seconds or cut up seconds. As within the motto of Hungarian photographic artist László Moholy-Nagy, who declared, “Photography is there to make the visible visible.” Edition Lammerhuber strives to be house to the most effective ‘cyclops’ of our time, legends and new skills alike.  

And how does an Edition Lammerhuber e book come about? The theme have to be essential to us, the images captivate us, there have to be one thing particular, magical, within the photos. Once a call has been made to publish, the photographer visits us at our publishing home. We undergo the photographic materials, decide the format of the e book, take into consideration a setting to swimsuit the theme. This is when the virtually magical means of designing and layouting begins. It often takes a couple of week for the idea to be accomplished to the purpose the place the work of everybody concerned may be browsed on-screen, then it passes on to the subsequent steps within the manufacturing.

Our declared intention is to strategy an ideal e book by a passionate artistic course of. Craft points are a vital a part of it and of our publishing philosophy. All manufacturing steps as much as the printing are completed in our home. Our personal specialists produce the prepress. We actually care concerning the copy high quality of the images, the texture of the printed papers and the standard of the binding. We examine each single printing type.

So it’s hardly shocking that some reviewers name the books of Edition Lammerhuber items of artwork emanating from a ‘book chamber of marvels’ and that almost all titles collect awards, together with these of the Art Directors Club New York, the Deutsche Fotobuchpreis, the Pictures of the Year International (POYI) Awards, USA, the Visa d’or, France, the FEP European Book Prize of the Year Awards or the World Press Photo. Today our books can be found in additional than 170 nations, often revealed in two, typically three, languages.

Exceptional images is just not solely discovered within the books of Edition Lammerhuber but additionally in a photograph competitors collectively initiated in Vienna in 2013 by Edition Lammerhuber and the Photographische Gesellschaft. Under the overall heading What Does Peace Look Like? , the Alfred Fried Photography Award, value 10 000 euros, chooses the peace picture of the yr. Participation within the award has exploded in recent times, confirming the standing of images as a medium for transporting important socio-political themes. From 2017, a separate competitors for the peace picture of the yr is open to youngsters as much as the age of 14.

At the biennial LUMIX Festival in Hannover, the Lammerhuber Photography Award for younger picture journalists is introduced, with a prize cash of 5000 euros. Photography and the photobook are a vital, defining, medium for society and for our publishing home. This is why we consider it is very important encourage younger photographic expertise.

We could be honoured to see our books out there out of your bookshops and libraries.

Yours

Silvia Lammerhuber and Lois Lammerhuber

Publisher

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