VERY BEAUTIFUL AND HIGHLY UNDERRATED German photobook by east-german photographer Helfried Strauss. "The Ferry - a Story in pictures" is about the ferry and the family who ran it on the Mulde near Grimma. MY HIGHEST RECOMMENDATION. Signed by the artist. I GUARANTEE THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE SIGNATURE. The book is mentioned here: Thomas Wiegand, Manfred Heiting, Deutschland im Fotobuch, page 150 The story was written in two and a half years between 1979 and 1981, was not published in the GDR and was only published as a book in 1991. “Nobody had banned it at the time, and yet it was uncanny to everyone. Because what the pictures said so clearly, so memorably, even without words, did not fit into the scheme of the past years. After all, they 'only' spoke of people in an everyday life in which they wanted nothing more than to live, to get along with each other. “ (Thomas Wiegand) Welcome to the "GERMAN PHOTOBOOKS" auction by Ecki Heuser (5Uhr30.com, Cologne) - with more than 100 fantastic lots. IF YOU WIN MORE THAN 1 OF MY BOOKS IN THIS AUCTION, YOU WILL PAY ONLY 1 X SHIPPING COSTS - WORLDWIDE. Helfried Strauß, born 1943 in Plauen, taught at the Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts from 1978 and was Professor of Photography at the Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts from 1993 to 2008. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt/Main, Leipzig. 1991. First edition, first printing. Hardcover with jacket. 197 x 282 mm. 136 pages. 97 photos. Photos and layout: Helfried Strauss. Introduction: Fritz Rudolf Fries. Afterword: Jörg Boström. Text in German. Condition: Book fresh and flawless; clean with no marks and with no foxing. Dustjacket complete with no tears and with no missing parts; a bit used and partly lightly yellowed. Overall fine condition. Great, widely unknown photobook - signed by the artist.