Ulrich Mack - Ruhrgebiet (STRONGLY LIMITED 244/400, SLIPCASE, VERY FRESH COPY) - 2009

BRILLIANT, BIG-SIZE PHOTOBOOK IN BREATH-TAKING PRINTING -
by well-known German photographer Ulrich Mack about the "Ruhrgebiet", the former very important industrial region in the West part of West Germany, which inspired so many great photographers.

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Illustrated with 36 stark full-page black-and-white photographs of the industrial architecture and landscape of the region between the Ruhr and Emscher rivers, taken by Ulrich Mack in the fall of 1959.

Concerning the extraordinary printing quality:
Skia Photography prints are vintage-print originals. The books are signed and numbered.
The data are destroyed after the books have been printed.
Image data: high-resolution Hell scanner, Electronic Darkroom on Mac. Printing technique: Heidelberger XL 105 to XL 162. These printing machines were standard-ised to PAN4C. Their design fea-tures made it possible to achieve extremely precise values in the tonal value difference ranging between 0 and 1%. This makes it possible to make reproducible photoprints of the highest visually perceptible quality.
SKIA Photography Prints made by Ulrich Mack and Dieter Kirchner.

Moser, Munich. 2009. First edition, first printing.

Hardcover with loosely laid-in text sheet in slipcase (as issued). 335 x 455 mm. 92 pages. 36 black and white photos. Photos: Ulrich Mack. Editor: Hans-Michael Koetzle. Essay: Hans-Michael Koetzle. Translation: David Smith. Layout: Horst Moser, Mathias Frisch. Title picture/cover: Mathias Frisch, Horst Moser. Project management: Franziska Misselwitz. Editing: Susanne Traub-Schweiger. Text in French, English and German.

Condition:
Book inside new, mint, unread. Book outside very fresh, a bit rubbed at the bottom right corner, otherwise like new. Slipcase fresh and complete with no tears and with no missing parts; trace of use and a few scratches. Overall very fine, much better than usual condition.

Great German photobook in great condition - complete with the slipcase and with the text sheet.

The German photographer Ulrich Mack, born 1934, is an internationally renowned photo journalist who contributed to the German magazines Quick, twen and Stern in the 1960s and 1970s. Ulrich Mack’s works have been exhibited in numerous museums and are included in national and international collections. Essential subjects of his photographic oeuvre are people and landscapes. Mack made a name for himself with, among others, various photo series of the industrial landscapes of the Ruhr district, Northern German landscapes, numerous artist portraits, as well as a unique comparative series of photographs of islanders on the German North Sea island of Pellworm and on Harkers Island off the east coast of the United States.
Inspired by August Sander’s major photo series People of the 20th Century, Ulrich Mack set out in the period from 1978 to 1981 to capture the people of Pellworm as individuals in their living environment in straightforward, unemotional black and white photographs. In 1984-85 he then did another photo series about islanders on Harkers Island off the coast of North Carolina. In 1995, he combined the two island series into a two-volume study titled Inselmenschen/Island People. This comparative ethnographic investigation reveals striking parallels between the ways of life and experiences of island societies on either side of the Atlantic.