Manfred Heiting is a designer and editor of photo publications and a collector of photobooks focusing on the period between 1839 and 1990. He has designed and edited Photography 1922-1982, 50 Years Modern Color Photography. 1936-1986 and Between Science and Art. 50 Years German Photographic Society, 1951-2001. Steidl has published his extensive surveys of German, Soviet, Japanese and Czech photobooks, as well as Dr. Paul Wolff & Alfred Tritschler. The Printed Images 1906-2019 (2021) and Shigeru Onishi's A Metamathematical Proposition (2021).