An editorial journal for books, images and visual culture.

Our articles move between books, photographs, films, exhibitions and digital images. We are interested in how pictures are edited, sequenced, reproduced and remembered — and in the objects and technologies that give those pictures form.

Some stories begin with a single publication. Others begin with a photographer, a film image or a visual idea that has travelled across media. What connects them is a focus on how images work, rather than simply what they show.

We pay attention to sequence, scale, material, composition and context.

Photography, cinema, publishing and games increasingly share visual references.

We aim for informed writing without turning every article into an academic paper.

The name German Art Books reflects the site’s roots in art publishing and book culture. Today the publication uses that history as a starting point rather than a boundary, extending its editorial scope into photography, cinema and contemporary visual culture.