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GREAT, WIDELY UNKNOWN BOOK with fantastic layout and wonderful Hasselblad photos by Dr. Benno Müller.

This book is an absolute must for every lover of the photobook medium in general and in racing in particular -
here in the TRUE ORIGINAL SECOND GERMAN (REVISED) EDITION from 1963 (!).

The German doctor and photographer Dr. Benno Müller was famous for his close-up portraits of the racing drivers in the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s.
Faces that reflected racing, the danger it posed and the challenge it represented for the drivers.
Max Mosley, President of the FIA from 1993 to 2009, once revealed to Dr. Benno Müller in a letter: 
'I know that everyone appreciated receiving photos from you. All racing drivers consider your
the best photographs ever taken by a photographer.'

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Motor-Presse-Verlag, Stuttgart. 1963. Second revised edition (first came out in 1961, third in 1971).

Hardcover with printed plastic jacket. 245 x 340 mm. 92 pages. Photos: Dr. Benno Müller (only the photos of Lance Reventlow, Ascari and Castellotti and the crash images of Herrmann and of Frankenberg by Julius Weitmann). Selection of the photos and layout of the book: H.U. Wieselmann. Text: H.U. Wieselmann. Text in German.

Condition:
Book inside fresh and flawless; clean with no marks and with no foxing. Book outside covers and spine well-preserved; a bit used, rubbed at the bottom edge of the front cover. Lacks the dustjacket. Overall fine condition.

Great, wideley unknown photobook by Dr. Benno Müller.
The title was also published in English at that time.

"‘Old’ shots of motorsport events from the 1950s are actually small picture wonders: shutter speeds and light intensity set narrow limits at the time, and the film material could hardly be enlarged to any great extent.
A decade later, technical progress opened up far greater possibilities for photographers - the images became sharper, the film captured movement and dynamics, it was possible to make racing cars ‘fly’ and spectacular large images were also created.
One person whose close-ups particularly fascinated the public was the doctor Dr Benno Müller. He specialised in faces - faces that reflected racing, the danger it posed and the challenge it represented for the drivers.
The general practitioner, who was born in Freiburg on 24 January 1912, had initially taken over his father's practice in Kirchhofen in Breisgau after completing his studies. People were therefore always at the centre of his professional life. ‘Somehow, I later always took photographs with the doctor's perspective,’ Müller once explained in an interview with the magazine “Motor Klassik”. ‘In my practice, I also looked closely at the patient's face first.’
This was also the case at the racing events that Müller attended. ‘I was never really interested in the races - it was always a shame about the time when I didn't see any faces in the paddock,’ he revealed. Motor Klassik’ translated it like this at the time: . Certainly, the technology occasionally provided an interesting detail, a sculpture-like structure that could be photographed - if you had Müller's eye for it. But what was a piece of plastic, metal or rubber compared to Graham Hill's moustache or Jim Clark's smile?’
Dr Benno Müller achieved fame and recognition in motor racing as a photographer, although he was not at all enthusiastic about racing cars. One day, when his friend Heinz-Ulrich Wieselmann, editor-in-chief of the magazine ‘auto motor und sport’ in those years, took him to a racing event at the Nürburgring, the doctor took photographs there for his own private pleasure. When Wieselmann later saw the photos, he immediately recognised his friend's extraordinary talent. He published the pictures. This was also the beginning of Müller's remarkable career as a motorsport photographer - with numerous publications in magazines at home and abroad.
After just a short time, Müller was a permanent fixture in the pit lane. Racing drivers, team members and the bosses of the racing teams respected the man with the Rolleiflex, Hasselblad and Leica. Friendly relationships developed with some drivers, such as Jim Clark, who later died in an accident at the Hockenheimring, and Helmut Fath, the three-time world champion in sidecar racing. Müller also enjoyed a warm friendship with Huschke von Hanstein, who had shaped the unique image of the Porsche brand as a racing driver, race director and press officer from 1952 to 1974.
In 1997, the State Museum of Technology and Labour in Mannheim paid tribute to the life's work of photographer Dr Benno Müller with the exhibition ‘Faces of Racing’, which lasted several months. More than one hundred original photos as well as racing and sports cars from Porsche, Mercedes-Benz and BMW brought the racing events of the late 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s back to life in this special exhibition. These were the years in which the general practitioner from Kirchhofen created extraordinary contemporary documents with his cameras. Max Mosley, President of the FIA from 1993 to 2009, once revealed to Müller in a letter: ‘I know that everyone appreciated receiving photos from you. All racing drivers consider your
the best photographs ever taken by a photographer.’
At the opening of the Mannheim exhibition, the German racing idol Hans Hermann gave the laudatory speech. The special exhibition was very well received by the media. Benno Müller was no longer able to visit the exhibition, as he was already seriously ill at the time. However, his wife's report of the overwhelming honour he had received in Mannheim made him overjoyed. Benno Müller died in 1997."
(Jörg-Thomas Födisch)

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