In rural Pennsylvania, in a barn he built himself, Nicholas Gottlund runs eponymous publishing house Gottlund Verlag. He mainly publishes photography books with a special focus on found images and photos from the recent past. Last year he published a four-part series of short books from photographer Ed Panar called Salad Days, consisting of only photos the photographer took while still in high school. To complete the academic theme, each volume was released with the four quarters of a typical school year. For most publications, Gottlund also designs and prints a letterpress cover in his print shop, and constructs the books by hand.

To commemorate a new studio in Los Angeles, every title Gottlund publishes in 2013 will be somehow relate to California.

Check out the catalog over at Gottlund Verlag.


Ignacio Perez, POPCORN ORANGE PEEL KNOCKDOWN, 2013






Suzanna Zak & Nicholas Gottlund, The Copier, 2012

Maggie Lee, Our Teen-Age Boys & Girls, 2012

Ed Panar, Salad Days 2, 2012

Christian Lange's mother kept obsessive family financial records. For the first 18 years of his life, every single dollar the family spent was recorded by his mother in meticulously maintained ledgers. Now, 16 years after the last entry, Lange uses this financial history as a framework to tell his family's story in his new book Lange Liste 79 97. In addition to the extensive notes by his mother, Christian Lange conducted interviews with relevant "characters" and dug up family artifacts like photos and possessions to give a clearer picture of his adolescence. But his story isn't limited to the immediate daily celebrations and dramas of the Lange clan. The unavoidable political consequences of living in Germany between 1979 and 1997 exist alongside all of the pregnancies, new shoes, and days spent tinkering in the garage.

[via manystuff]