ABOUT US

Founded in 1990, Nazraeli Press has published over 600 titles on the fine and applied arts. The press is known for its unorthodox use of common materials - such as papers, wood, plastic, metals - and for introducing elements of handwork into otherwise mass-produced objects. The press’s books have themselves been the subject of exhibitions and books about books.

Formats range from postcard-sized artist’s books to oversized monographs. In addition to traditionally-bound books, the press has published work in scroll format; loose cards in plexiglass boxes; portfolios of original photographs; and since 2001, a subscription-based series of 16-page artists books, called “One Picture Books”, which was relaunched in an upscaled and upgraded format in 2018. Limited to 500 numbered copies, each “One Picture Book” contains a signed, original photograph by the featured artist.

Complete holdings of Nazraeli Press books are in the permanent special collections of many important institutional libraries, including those of Stanford University; University of California, Los Angeles; Yale University Art Museum; The Huntington Library, Pasadena; and The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Founded in Munich, Germany in 1990, Nazraeli Press moved to the United States in 1997 and subsequently opened a satellite office in the United Kingdom. Since 2015, the press also produces Extra Virgin Olive Oil at its olive farm in Paso Robles, California where it maintains over 2,000 olive trees and two cows, as well as vacation rental properties.

“Nazraeli Press appears to be a sort of parallel entity which doubles up the publisher’s existence and translates into a series of photographic books, all characterized by the highest quality: elegant, minimalist and produced using unusual materials and formats.” — Vogue Italia

“One Picture books remain one of the most affordable ways to collect books and original prints of this caliber: after an edition sells out on the Nazraeli site, it can be often be found on bookseller and auction sites for upwards of nine hundred dollars.” — The New Yorker

“Nazraeli Press is one of the photography world’s jewels. With print runs that rarely exceed 1,000 copies, editions sell out fast, often before they ever make it to the bookstore.” — Eyemagazine