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ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT GERMAN POSTWAR AND GDR/DDR PROPAGANDA PHOTOBOOKS - WITH THE EXTREM SCARCE ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET.

Mentioned here:
Martin Parr, The Photobook, Volume 1, page 182

VERY SCARCE ORIGINAL EDITION from 1951 (!) - 
not to mix with the reprint much later (2022).

Puhlmann`s photographic record of one of the largest housing projects of the GDR in the 1950s; today internationally recognized as a major propaganda photobook.

Welcome to the latest auction by Anatole Desachy (France) and Ecki Heuser (Germany). Discover the amazing world of ‘Propaganda Photobooks’, which is newly considered in the field of photobook collecting nowadays. 
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Verlag der Nation, Berlin. 1951. First edition, first printing.

Hardback with dustjacket. 240 x 339 mm. 204 pages. 286 black and white photographs, 3 photomontages and illustrations. Various anonymous photographers. 15 photos by Max Ittenbach, Berlin. Typographic layout: Alfred Will. Layout of the cloth and of the dustjacket: Horst Erich Wolter, Leipzig. Text in German.

Condition: 
Inside excellent, very fresh and flawless, clean with no foxing and with no marks. Outside fresh; front with some stains. Dustjacket impressive, but somehow lightened (the reasons for this are not entirely clear to me), some tears, some missing parts (professionally restored, not taped. Overall fine condition.

Important German propaganda photobook - 
with the super scarce original dustjacket (hard to find in any condition).

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"Karl-Marx-Allee is a street named after the philosopher and social theorist Karl Marx in the Berlin districts of Mitte and Friedrichshain.
The longer Friedrichshain section is characterised by apartment blocks and towers in a mix of Socialist Classicism and Prussian Schinkel School styles, which was built in the 1950s as Stalinallee. The tower buildings at Frankfurter Tor and Strausberger Platz by architect Hermann Henselmann are the urban planning highlights of the complex. The section in Mitte is dominated by prefabricated buildings from the 1960s.
The street was originally called Große Frankfurter Straße west of the Frankfurter Tor of the Berlin Customs Wall (approximately the intersection with Straße der Pariser Kommune) and was renamed Stalinallee on 21 December 1949 on the occasion of Josef Stalin's 70th birthday celebrations together with Frankfurter Allee to the east. It has been called Karl-Marx-Allee since 13 November 1961. Frankfurter Allee was simultaneously renamed back to its old name, although since then it no longer begins at the original Frankfurter Tor, but at the square further east, which was given the same name in 1957. The residential buildings, which extend from Strausberger Platz to Frankfurter Tor into Frankfurter Allee, were designed as workers' palaces and were intended to represent the strength and engineering skills of the GDR."
(Wikipedia)

Photography, History, Art - Quantity: 1 - Dust jacket - Photo book

Gerhard Puhlmann - Die Stalinallee (GDR/DDR) - 1951

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