You're bidding on two books by Reiner Leist, a German-born photographer, who emigrated to the United States and lives in New York. Eleven Septembers Prestel, 2006, 512 pages, 26x20.5cm, English From his 26th-floor window overlooking New York City's Eighth Avenue, Reiner Leist has kept an 11-year watch over the lower third of downtown Manhattan. Capturing the ever-moving foot of the metropolis day after day through the lens of his large-format antique camera, Leist has created a massive, evolutionary work that quietly documents the city as it lives, breathes and changes. American Portraits Prestel, 2001 Hardcover, 175 pages, 30.5x24.5cm, English Over a period of seven years Leist traveled across America, photographing people from Rochester to Key West and from New York to Los Angeles. Before making a portrait the photographer asked each person to provide him with a childhood photograph. This childhood image often supplied the initial visual framework for his portrait. Like America itself, the book presents a diverse tableau of race and background, youth and experience, native born and immigrant, capturing the complex mix of American today.