Bøger udgivet af Benteli Verlag

While many people believe that their used clothes donations are distributed free of charge to the needy in the Third World, the trade in second-hand clothes is actually an international business. The book provides ethnographic insights into the life of a group of street dealers of the Tanzanian multi-million metropolis Dar es Salaam.

Peter Panyoczki is at home on two continents and thus his life is that of a perpetual emigrant. He belongs to the 1980s generation of artists who polemically rejected conceptual art yet did not simply return to figurative art. This monograph presents his work, investigating it from various aspects in a series of very different contributions.

Reading Revolutionaries proposes an alternative reading of John Sparagana's work in the form of a literal understanding of visual information as text.

Published to accompany the exhibition at the Aargauer Kunsthaus, this covers the work and influence of the Swiss author Robert Walser.

An examination of drinking culture and culturally significant drinks from around the world: kava, palm wine, cassava beer, green tea, butter tea, cow milk, sour milk, rice beer...

Showcasing a collection of Rene Gauch's iconic posters, which are nowadays found in museums and private collections worldwide.

Terra Borealis contains photographs that were taken on Iceland, the Faroe Islands, the Shetlands, Norway, Greenland and Svalbard. The book offers an enchanting and magical journey in black-and-white.

In an astonishingly dense series of photographs Willi P. Burkhardt circles Lake Lucerne, the cradle of the Swiss Confederation. In impressive panoramic shots he shows this unique landscape with its villages and towns from the bird's as well as the worm's eye view. Text in English and German.

Max Schmid's photographs bear witness to the fact that Switzerland is not just a land of Alpine idylls and snowy mountains. These pictures show the wild side of Switzerland, untamed nature in all its dramatic power.

Four years of research preceded this black-and-white photographic documentary into the mysterious world of Afro-Cuban religion. The purpose of this photographic project is to carefully report on a complex religion, its different ceremonies and rich folklore.

This book presents a selection of celebrated photographer Robert Bosch's most striking photographs, taken in the course of his numerous journeys across all seven continents.

The famous Swiss Tv-Cook Andreas C. Studer presents Swiss Cows and exclusive recipes using milk and cheese.

Marlies Pekarek's new book features selected texts from her art diaries that she once began during her studies in Australia and has continued until today. It is based on Australian Woman's Diaries, an annual calendar with diary sections for personal notes, stories about women in Australia and nostalgic illustrations and texts from historical guide books for women.

The fascinating allure of a country that wavers between a new awakening and a return to old ways.

An expedition into Japanese gardening culture.

The Tarot Garden, situated in Italy, is a sculpture park, planned and created by Niki de Saint Phalle. It is her very personal vision of the personalities of the tarot-game: the world, the fool, the hermit, death, the wheel of fortune.

The stunning photographs by Marco Paoluzzo show Iceland's landscapes, the special light of the north, changing weather, and the magic of light and shadow.