Robert Lebeck - 1968 (MINT CONDITION, SHRINK-WRAPPED) - 2018

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GREAT PHOTOBOOK by well-known German photographer Robert Lebeck -
showing his best photo series from '1968'.
Wonderfully presented in different chapters: Belfast, Hamburg, Prague, New York, Bogota, Kassel, Wolfsburg, Germany and others.

With the famous photos of Jackie Kennedy, of Robert Kennedy's funeral, of the famous German artist Joseph Beuys and of the famous German political activist Rudi Dutschke.
Last but not least the books presents the great series by Robert Lebeck about Belfast -
in breath-taking color photography.

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

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Steidl, Göttingen. 2018. First German edition, second printing (identical with the first).

Hardcover in linen (as issued). 225 x 300 mm. 320 pages. 150 photos. Text in German.

Great photobook by German photographer Robert Lebeck - in perfect condition

'This book presents the diverse photo series Robert Lebeck made in 1968, which form an alternative view of the year when social conflict and personal rebellion against authoritarian traditions found their passionate and often violent expression. Upheaval, protest, perseverance and failure-themes that are not always explored in retrospective mythicizing views of 1968-are clearly expressed in Lebeck's photos, taken in locations from New York to Bogotá and Wolfsburg. Whether dealing with 'Divorced Women,' Rudi Dutschke in Prague, Robert Kennedy's funeral or Joseph Beuys at documenta, contemporary history encounters the integrity of photo reportage in Lebeck's work. 'The year of the student protests took place without me,' Lebeck recalls of 1968 in his autobiography. 'When the barricades were burning in Paris, I was working in Florida on a series about two murdered co-eds; when students began protesting in front of the Springer Building, I was photographing the christening of Hildegard Knef's baby; and when Russian troops marched into Prague, I was accompanying the pope's visit to Bogotá.' A closer examination of Lebeck's contact sheets, prints and reportages made during this epoch-making year on behalf of Stern, then one of Germany's highest-circulation magazines, and presented in this book, reveal how Lebeck's photos, despite his own assessment, capture the social changes of the time.'
(from the publisher)