Rain of awards! Photo books from EDITION LAMMERHUBER receive five awards at the renowned ICMA – International Creative Media Awards
Since 2010, an international jury of experts has awarded the ICMA annually. The ICMA Award, launched by Norbert Küpper, is a global competition for corporate media, books, corporate design and magazines. It provides an overview of contemporary graphic design and is primarily intended to promote the exchange of creative ideas at an international level and reveal trends.
Dagmar Varady for PRISMA - Kunst.Werk.Buch and Luigi Caputo for SALZBURGER FESTSPIELE were delighted to receive GOLD in the Photo books category.
GOLD in the Photo books photo reports category went to Sarah Caron for PAKISTAN, BRONZE in the Art books · books about artists, books by artists category went to Gerd Ludwig for BEUYS LAND and in the Book Design category the OPEN YOUR EYES catalog was awarded the Award of Excellence.
The awards ceremony will take place on March 10, 2025, traditionally on the eve of the London Book Fair in London.
And here is the jury's reasoning: PRISMA - Art.Work.Book: The book is a little smaller than DIN A3 and has a landscape format. It is a leporello, hand-bound. You can stand the book up and enjoy a photo exhibition. One side has the photos, the other the texts. Overall: Prisma is a book object with outstanding photographs. edition.lammerhuber.at/buecher/kunst-werk-buch
SALZBURG FESTIVAL - Combination of color and black and white photos. In addition to photos of performances, there are also many shots that allow viewers to look behind the scenes. Outstanding photography, varied imagery, lively scenes. Clear, consistent design with large image formats. edition.lammerhuber.at/buecher/salzburger-festspiele
PAKISTAN - Insight into the reality of a country. Touching photographs, up close. A great reportage volume with fascinating colors. edition.lammerhuber.at/buecher/pakistan
BEUYS LAND - Beautiful cover. The printed endpaper leads from the cover to the inside of the book. Exciting book format. Good-looking close-ups, surprising insights and interesting imagery. edition.lammerhuber.at/buecher/beuys-land
OPEN YOUR EYES - The book's features are particularly striking: softcover with open spine, dark natural paper, very good print of the photographs. Overall: innovative and very well-crafted. The jury says: great. edition.lammerhuber.at/buecher/open-your-eyes
The ICMA evaluates the concept and design of the media. According to organizer Norbert Küpper, International Editorial-Design & Research Forum in Meerbusch, the editorial texts cannot be evaluated because the submissions now come from all over the world.
GoSee : icma-award.com
About EDITION LAMMERHUBER
IT’S ALL ABOUT PASSION ...
Dear fans of beautiful and sophisticated 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 choice of Edition Lammerhuber for Best Publisher 2017, an accolade also awarded to the publisher from Baden bei Wien in the preceding competitions in 2013 and 2015 of this biennial event.
Present on the book market for more than seven years, with a steadily growing programme, we have worked our way to the top – internationally. Your are best at what you love doing. And we love books, we love photography. The photobook is the ideal medium to combine these loves. Photography documents the world in a very particular way and shapes human memory like no other medium does. Our ambition is twofold: We want to publish books with fascinating themes from art and science, with excellent photography, sophisticated texts and brilliant authors, but, most of all, we want to make books that have something to say, books that transport important themes into the heart of society. For us, a book charged with emotional photography is a point of reference for communication that reverberates far beyond the number of sold copies. We believe that we can make a real impact with a book. For us, a book is not just a commodity but an incomparable cultural technique.
Edition Lammerhuber wants to be the publisher for writer-photographers, for whom seeing is a vocation and whose ways of seeing the world is a process of insights. A process they are capable of transforming into the immediacy of a photograph, a creative act, initiated and completed within seconds or split seconds. As in the motto of Hungarian photographic artist László Moholy-Nagy, who declared, “Photography is there to make the visible visible.” Edition Lammerhuber strives to be home to the best ‘cyclops’ of our time, legends and new talents alike.
And how does an Edition Lammerhuber book come about? The theme must be important to us, the photography captivate us, there must be something special, magical, in the pictures. Once a decision has been made to publish, the photographer visits us at our publishing house. We go through the photographic material, determine the format of the book, think about a setting to suit the theme. This is when the almost magical process of designing and layouting starts. It usually takes about a week for the concept to be completed to the point where the work of everyone involved can be browsed on-screen, then it passes on to the next steps in the production.
Our declared aim is to approach a perfect book through a passionate creative process. Craft aspects are an essential part of it and of our publishing philosophy. All production steps up to the printing are done in our house. Our own experts produce the prepress. We really care about the reproduction quality of the photographs, the feel of the printed papers and the quality of the binding. We check every single printing form.
So it is hardly surprising that some reviewers call the books of Edition Lammerhuber pieces of art emanating from a ‘book chamber of marvels’ and that nearly all titles gather awards, including those 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 are available in more than 170 countries, usually published in two, sometimes three, languages.
Exceptional photography is not only found in the books of Edition Lammerhuber but also in a photo competition jointly initiated in Vienna in 2013 by Edition Lammerhuber and the Photographische Gesellschaft. Under the general heading What Does Peace Look Like? , the Alfred Fried Photography Award, worth 10 000 euros, chooses the peace image of the year. Participation in the award has exploded in recent years, confirming the status of photography as a medium for transporting essential socio-political themes. From 2017, a separate competition for the peace image of the year is open to children up to the age of 14.
At the biennial LUMIX Festival in Hannover, the Lammerhuber Photography Award for young photo journalists is presented, with a prize money of 5000 euros. Photography and the photobook are an essential, defining, medium for society and for our publishing house. This is why we believe it is important to encourage young photographic talent.
We would be honoured to see our books available from your bookshops and libraries.
Yours
Silvia Lammerhuber and Lois Lammerhuber
Publisher
GoSee : edition.lammerhuber.at
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