Albert Steiner - Winter Sonne Schnee - 1930

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Fantastic and most important photobook by Albert Steiner (1877-1965).

Albert Steiner was one of Switzerland's outstanding 20th-century photographers. His landscape photographs taken in the Engadine, where he lived and worked for 46 years, are unique on an international as well as a national level. They have had a major influence on an awareness of Switzerland as an unspoiled alpine country of surpassing beauty.

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Rotapfel-Verlag, Erlenbach, Leipzig. 1930. First edition, first printing.

Hardcover with dustjacket. 205 x 270 mm. 70 pages (22 pages with text, 48 pages with 48 photos). Photos: Albert Steiner. Edited and text: Felix Moeschlin. Text in German.

Condition:
Book inside excellent, fresh and flawless; clean with no marks and with no foxing. Book outside with trace of use; rear side in fine condition, front with stain at the top left corner and with light edges, spine sunned. Overall fine condition.

Sought-after, very rare photobook.

Inspired by painters such as Giovanni Segantini and Ferdinand Hodler, Steiner took pictures that reveal a profound respect for and love of nature, as well as a tireless search for timeless beauty and metaphysical truth. His meticulously structured, light-saturated compositions are expressive witnesses of his experience of human insignificance in the face of the greatness and sublimity of the mountain world. Surprisingly, up until now Steiner's work has not been accorded the appreciation it deserves.