Gerhard Puhlmann - Die Stalinallee (GDR/DDR PROPAGANDA PHOTOBOOK) - 1951

ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT GDR/DDR PROPAGANDA PHOTOBOOKS:
Martin Parr, The Photobook, Volume 1, page 182.

VERY SCARCE ORIGINAL EDITION from 1951 (!), not to mix with the reprint much later (2022).

Gerhard Puhlmann`s photographic record of one of the largest housing projects of the GDR in the 1950s;
today internationally recognized as a major propaganda photobook.

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Verlag der Nation, Berlin. 1951. First edition, first printing.

Hardback. 240 x 339 mm. 204 pages. 286 black and white photographs, 3 photomontages and illustrations. Various anonymous photographers. 15 photos by Max Ittenbach, Berlin. Typographic layout: Alfred Will. Layout of the cloth: Horst Erich Wolter, Leipzig. Text in German.

Condition:
Inside very fresh and flawless, clean with no marks and with no foxing. Outside with excellent spine and quite fresh front cover; rear side with some darkened edges. Lacks the super scarce jacket. Overall fine, better and fresher than usual condition.

Important (East)German propaganda photobook in the true first printing - hard to find in any condition.

'Karl-Marx-Allee is a street named after the philosopher and social theorist Karl Marx in the Berlin districts of Mitte and Friedrichshain.
The longer Friedrichshain section is characterised by apartment blocks and towers in a mix of Socialist Classicism and Prussian Schinkel School styles, which was built in the 1950s as Stalinallee. The tower buildings at Frankfurter Tor and Strausberger Platz by architect Hermann Henselmann are the urban planning highlights of the complex. The section in Mitte is dominated by prefabricated buildings from the 1960s.
The street was originally called Große Frankfurter Straße west of the Frankfurter Tor of the Berlin Customs Wall (approximately the intersection with Straße der Pariser Kommune) and was renamed Stalinallee on 21 December 1949 on the occasion of Josef Stalin's 70th birthday celebrations together with Frankfurter Allee to the east. It has been called Karl-Marx-Allee since 13 November 1961. Frankfurter Allee was simultaneously renamed back to its old name, although since then it no longer begins at the original Frankfurter Tor, but at the square further east, which was given the same name in 1957. The residential buildings, which extend from Strausberger Platz to Frankfurter Tor into Frankfurter Allee, were designed as workers' palaces and were intended to represent the strength and engineering skills of the GDR.'
(Wikipedia)