Emil O. Hoppe - The German Work (MINT CONDITION, SHRINK-WRAPPED) - 2015

BRILLIANT BOOK, SHOWING THE ENTIRE WORK by famous German-born British photographer
Emil O. Hoppé (1878-1972) - in BRANDNEW CONDITION.

Emil O. Hoppé is famous for "Deutsche Arbeit" ("The German Work"), which came out in 1930 and is - with the spectacular, reversible dustjacket - considered as one of the most important photobooks ever published (Martin Parr, The Photobook, vol 1, page 125).

"Deutsche Arbeit" ("The German Work") is together with "Eisen und Stahl" ("Iron and Steel") by Albert Renger-Patzsch, "Arbeit" ("Work") by Paul Wolff and "Fabrik" ("Factory") by Jakob Tuggener one of the most important books of industry photography.

THIS VOLUME HERE combines photographs published in Emil O. Hoppé's legendary book of 1930, "Deutsche Arbeit" (Martin Parr, The Photobook, vol 1, page 125) with many new pictures never previously seen.

WONDERFUL PRINTING (by German publisher Steidl).

New, mint, unread - still originally shrink-wrapped in publisher's plastic foil.
COLLECTOR'S COPY.

THIS IS THE FIRST BEST-OF-PHOTOBOOKS AUCTION by 5Uhr30.com, starting in 2026.
With more than 100 great lots from my personal collection and from recent acquisitions.

According to Bill Jay, "within a few years, E.O. Hoppé was the undisputed leader of pictorial portraiture in Europe. To say that someone has a "household name" has become a cliché, yet in Hoppé's case the phrase is apt. Rarely in the history of the medium has a photographer been so famous in his own lifetime among the general public. He was as famous as his sitters. It is difficult to think of a prominent name in the fields of politics, art, literature, and the theatre who did not pose for his camera."

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Steidl, Gottingen. 2015. First English edition, first printing.
(there was also a German edition same time)

Hardcover with dustjacket. 270 x 295 mm. 240 pages. Photos: E.O. Hoppé. Edited by Phillip Prodger. Text in English.

Fantastic photobook - in perfect condition.

"Between 1925 and 1938, photographer E.O. Hoppé traveled the length and breadth of Germany, recording people and places at one of the most tumultuous times in the country's history. He photographed movie stars and captains of industry, workers and peasants, and captured the birth of the Autobahn and UFA film studios in its heyday. He saw the rise of fascism, the creation of vast new suburbs, and the displacement of people from their traditional ways of life. With unprecedented access to the country's world-famous factories and industrial installations, he witnessed Germany as few others could - barreling headlong into the unknown. Moving, insightful, and deeply revealing, the full significance of Hoppé's German work has been unknown until now."
(from the publisher)

"Emil Otto Hoppé was a portrait, travel, and topographic photographer active between 1907 and 1945. Born to a wealthy family in Munich, he moved to London in 1900 to train as a financier, but took up photography and rapidly achieved great success.
He was the only son of a prominent banker, and was educated in the finest schools of Munich, Paris and Vienna. Upon leaving school he served apprenticeships in German banks for ten years, before accepting a position with the Shanghai Banking Corporation. He never arrived in China. The first leg of his journey took him to England where he met an old school friend. Hoppé married his old school friend's sister, Marion Bliersbach, and stayed in London. While working for the Deutsche Bank, he became increasingly enamored with photography, and, in 1907, jettisoned his commercial career and opened a portrait studio.
Although Hoppé was one of the most important photographic artists of his era and highly celebrated in his time, in 1954, at the age of 76, he sold his body of photographic work to a commercial London picture archive, the Mansell Collection. In the collection, the work was filed by subject in with millions of other stock pictures and no longer accessible by author. Almost all of Hoppé's photographic work—that which gained him the reputation as Britain's most influential international photographer between 1907 and 1939—was accidentally obscured from photo-historians and from photo-history itself. It remained in the collection for over thirty years after Hoppé's death, and was not fully accessible to the public until the collection closed down and was acquired by new owners in the United States.
In 1994 photographic art curator Graham Howe retrieved Hoppé's photographic work from the picture library and rejoined it with the Hoppé family archive of photographs and biographical documents. This was the first time since 1954 that the complete E.O. Hoppé Collection was gathered together. Many years were spent in cataloguing, conservation, and research of the recovered work."
(Wikipedia)