Lisa Oppenheim: Works is an English-language publication devoted to Lisa Oppenheim, issued by Hatje Cantz and catalogued for publication in 2025. Its notably broad title identifies the artist and her work without prescribing a period, medium, or single project. That restraint gives the book the character of an artist-centered statement rather than a narrowly labelled occasion.

The cover introduces a second phrase, “Eternal Substitute,” set alongside Oppenheim’s name and the Hatje Cantz imprint. Read with the catalog title, it creates a productive distinction between the neutral category “Works” and a more suggestive verbal frame. The book’s identity therefore depends not on an explanatory subtitle alone, but on the relationship between cataloguing language and the wording presented on the object itself.

For readers and collectors of photobooks, this relationship is central to how the publication may be understood. Oppenheim is named both as its subject and as a contributor in the bibliographic record, while the cover gives “Eternal Substitute” a prominent role in the book’s public face. This is more than a naming detail: it gives the volume a distinct bibliographic and visual identity, asking its framing to be read as carefully as its principal title.

Its collector relevance is consequently documentary as well as editorial. The combination of a named artist, the Hatje Cantz imprint, an English-language presentation, a 2025 publication date, and ISBN 9783775760225 fixes the volume within Oppenheim’s publication history. For a focused collection, that clearly attributable position—and the tension between registered title and cover wording—provides a substantive reason for attention.