Erwin Olaf: Strange Beauty

Erwin Olaf: Strange Beauty
Category: Photographer Monographs & Art Books
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Author: Erwin Olaf, Roger Diederen
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Publication Date: 2021
Print Length: 240 pages
Language: English
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A 40-year survey of lush portraits and eerie genre scenes from the celebrated Dutch photographer.

The work of Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf (born 1959) is recognizable for its high-gloss aesthetic value and compositional precision, all staged down to the smallest detail. His large-scale portraiture and genre scenes are by turns sensual and surreal; each photograph appears as though it could be a frame lifted from a film.

Over the course of his creative career, Olaf has worked as a photojournalist and a fashion photographer as well as a fine art photographer: the confluence of these disciplines informs his signature style of imagery that hints at a darker narrative behind an immaculate varnish. Midcentury advertisements and his own past as a participant in the 1980s club scene also serve to inform the aesthetic that Olaf has painstakingly cultivated over the past four decades. His scenes frequently feature beautiful sitters cast in painterly light; the jewel tones and rich variants of mahogany and chestnut are evocative of a different era without feeling dated.

This volume is published alongside Olaf’s first comprehensive solo exhibition in Germany, providing readers with an in-depth understanding of his multifaceted career through quality reproductions.

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Mary Ellen Mark: Passport is a new and expanded edition of Mark’s first photobook, originally published in 1974 by Lustrum Press. The Steidl volume doubles the length of the original, increasing it from 56 to 120 pages, and includes an additional text by Ralph Gibson, founder of Lustrum. The book brings together photographs made between 1963 and 1973 during Mark’s travels, with a strong focus on Turkey, where she spent a year on a Fulbright scholarship, as well as work from India and Nepal. T

Ben Marcin: The Holdouts

Aug 2026 — GOST Books

Photographer Monographs and Art Books: Ben Marcin: The Holdouts

Ben Marcin: The Holdouts centers on places that persist at the edges of visibility—houses and encampments that remain, resist, or quietly fade in and around Baltimore and Maryland’s Eastern Shore. The debut photobook gathers three distinct bodies of work: solitary row houses that somehow escaped demolition in the inner city; abandoned farmhouses where the last generations have died or moved away; and temporary homeless camps that rarely last more than a year before being cleared or dispersed.

Martin Schoeller: Drag Queens

Aug 2026 — Steidl

Photographer Monographs and Art Books: Martin Schoeller: Drag Queens

.i>Martin Schoeller: Drag Queens presents close-up portraits of the most famous drag performers in America, from Brooke Lynn Hytes to Aquaria, using Schoeller’s signature tight framing to strip away spectacle and reveal the inner life of each subject. Over the last two decades, drag has moved from niche corners into the center of popular culture, aided by its photogenic appeal, but good portraits of drag queens must go beyond glitz and glamor to show the essence, diversity, and power of the arti

Tim Page: Nam Contact

Aug 2026 — Steidl

Photographer Monographs and Art Books: Tim Page: Nam Contact

Tim Page: Nam Contact draws on black-and-white archives from the Vietnam War for the first time, revealing unseen images and ephemera from the British photographer who is best known for his color work on the conflict. Edited with Stephen Dupont, the book presents Page’s contact sheets and individual frames from those sheets, alongside diary entries, notes, letters from noted journalists of the era, and other materials from what was called the “first media war”—the first and last war without medi

Peter Beard: The End of the Game (New Edition)

Aug 2026 — Taschen
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Photographer Monographs and Art Books: Peter Beard: The End of the Game (New Edition)

Peter Beard: The End of the Game remains one of the most influential and unsettling photographic testimonies on the ecological transformation of Africa during the twentieth century. First assembled over several decades, the book combines Peter Beard’s photographs, journals, collages, and reflections into a deeply personal chronicle of environmental collapse in East Africa. Working primarily in Kenya and Uganda during the 1960s and 1970s, Beard documents the devastating consequences of human inte

Jana Schulz: Tetris B Mountaingoat

Aug 2026 — Publisher DISTANZ Verlag GmbH

Photographer Monographs and Art Books: Jana Schulz: Tetris B Mountaingoat

Jana Schulz: Tetris B Mountaingoat unfolds as a nuanced exploration of masculinity, vulnerability, and identity through a series of intimate photographic encounters. Based in Berlin, Jana Schulz approaches photography as a collaborative and evolving exchange rather than a detached act of observation. Her images emerge from meetings with men previously unknown to her, where trust and performance gradually develop during the process of photographing. The resulting work occupies a space between doc

Andrea Modica: Italian Story

Jul 2026 — L'Artière

Photographer Monographs and Art Books: Andrea Modica: Italian Story

Andrea Modica: Italian Story brings together a forty-year photographic journey through Italy, unfolding as a personal meditation on time, place, and the act of seeing. The work is made entirely with an 8×10 view camera, a choice that shapes the entire approach: the images are deliberate, slow, and grounded in presence, requiring the photographer to return to the same places over decades. This method produces photographs that carry the weight of duration and the sense of a relationship that deepe

Nigel Grierson: Theatre of Space Vol 1

Jul 2026 — Lost Press

Photographer Monographs and Art Books: Nigel Grierson: Theatre of Space Vol 1

Nigel Grierson: Theatre of Space Vol 1 collects street photographs taken in London during the early 1980s while Grierson studied at the Royal College of Art. The book pairs these images with an essay by Gerry Badger, a long-time writer on photography, and presents Grierson’s contribution to documentary practice at a moment when British street photography favored natural light and restraint. Grierson’s work stands out for its use of flash in daylight, a technique that read as unconventional at th
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