I'm looking for references on the "algebraic geometry" side of complex analytis, i.e. on complex spaces, morphisms of those spaces, coherent sheaves, flat morphisms, direct image sheaves etc. A textbook would be nice, but every little helps.

Grauert and Remmert's "Coherent analytic sheaves" seems to contain what I want, but it is very dense reading. You could say I'm looking for sources to read on the side as I work through G&R, to get different points of views and examples. For example, B. and L. Kaup's "Holomorphic functions of several variables" talks about the basics of complex analytic geometry, but doesn't go into much detail.

My motivation is twofold. First, I'm studying deformation theory, which necessarily makes use of complex spaces, both as moduli spaces and objects of deformations, so while I can avoid using complex spaces at the moment they're certain to come in handy later. Second, I want to be able to talk to the algebraic geometers in my lab, so I should know what their schemes and morphisms translate to in the analytic case. I like reading as much as I can about what I'm trying to learn, so:

### Do you know of other sources (*anything*: textbooks, lecture notes, survey articles, historical overviews, comparisons with algebraic geometry ...) that talk about complex spaces and their geometry?