Herbert List - Junge Männer (FIRST ENGLISH PRINTING, ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET) - 1988

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In 1929 List began to photograph the friends he knew and traveled with throughout Greece, Italy and Germany.
In several photos these men are photographed nude or semi-nude, posing with fragments of Greek statuary.

The book is introduced by Stephen Spender, in whose autobiographical novel "The Temple" - written in 1929, but not published, until 1988. List is fictionalised as Joachim Lenz.

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Herbert List was a german photographer, who worked for magazines, including Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and Life and was associated with Magnum Photos. His austere, classically-posed black-and-white compositions, particularly of male nudes, taken in Italy and Greece have been highly formative for modern photography, with contemporary fashion photographers like Herb Ritts being clearly influenced by List's style. He is also noted for his erotic street photography. Herbert List was born in 1903 to a prosperous business family in Hamburg, the son of Luise and Felix List. He attended the Johanneum Gymnasium, and afterwards studied literature at the University of Heidelberg. While still a student he became apprenticed to his family coffee company. From 1924 to 1928 List continued to work at the company and to travel to Brazil, Guatemala, Costa Rica and elsewhere. During this time he began taking photographs. In 1930 he met photographer Andreas Feininger, who introduced him to the Rolleiflex camera. He began taking portraits of friends and shooting still lifes, influenced by the Bauhaus and surrealist movements. He used male models, draped fabric and masks along with double-exposures. He has explained that his photos were composed "visions where [my] arrangements try to capture the magical essence inhabiting and animating the world of appearances.” In 1936 List left Germany and took up photography as a profession, working in Paris and London.

Thames and Hudson, London. 1988. First English edition, first printing.

Hardcover. 285 x 362 mm. 112 pages. 72 black and white photos by Herbert List. Edited by Max Scheler and Jack Woody. Layout: Jack Woody. Typography composed by Scott Smith. Printed and bound in Tokyo, Japan. Introduction: Stephen Spender. Text in English.

Condition:
Book inside and outside fresh and flawless; clean with no previous owner marks and with no foxing. Dustjacket complete with no missing parts, but with little trace of use; lightly yellowed, tiny flaws, price sticker at the bottom right corner of the rear side. Overall fine condition.

Fantastic early photobook by Herbert List - with original dustjacket.
Published simultaneously in the same layout, size and content by Twin Palms Publishers, Pasadena, California (American edition) and by Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg (German edition).