Albert Renger-Patzsch, Ernst Jünger - Gestein ("Rocks", NEW OBJECTIVITY) - 1966

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With essay by Ernst Jünger.

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C.H. Böhringer Sohn, Ingelheim. 1966. First edition, first printing.

Original hardcover in grey linen with slipcase. 270 x 350 mm. 158 pages. 34 pages with text. 62 black and white photos by Albert Renger-Patzsch. Text: Max Richter, Ernst Jünger. Text in German.

Condition:
Book inside and outside clean with no marks and with no foxing; pages smell a bit like smoke. Outside fresh and well-preserved; neat stain at the top left corner of the rear side, no other remarkable flaws or defects. Overall fine condition.

Great photobook by Albert Renger-Patzsch in impressive big-size format.

One of the most beautiful photobook titles by Albert Renger-Patzsch who is famous for "Die Welt ist schön" (Martin Parr, The Photobook, vol 1, page 97. Andrew Roth, Book of 101 Books , page 50. 802 photo books from the M. + M. Auer collection , page 134. Hasselblad Center, The Open Book , page 68/69) or for "400 Jahre Kupferhammer Grünthal".

"Albert Renger-Patzsch was a German photographer associated with the New Objectivity.
Renger-Patzsch was born in Würzburg and began making photographs by age twelve. After military service in the First World War he studied chemistry at the Königlich-Sächsisches Polytechnikum in Dresden. In the early 1920s he worked as a press photographer for the Chicago Tribune before becoming a freelancer and, in 1925, publishing a book, Das Chorgestühl von Kappenberg (The Choir Stalls of Cappenberg). He had his first museum exhibition in Lübeck in 1927.
A second book followed in 1928, Die Welt ist schön (The World is Beautiful). This, his best-known book, is a collection of one hundred of his photographs in which natural forms, industrial subjects and mass-produced objects are presented with the clarity of scientific illustrations. The book's title was chosen by his publisher; Renger-Patzsch's preferred title for the collection was Die Dinge ("The Things").
In its sharply focused and matter-of-fact style, his work exemplifies the esthetic of the New Objectivity that flourished in the arts in Germany during the Weimar Republic. Like Edward Weston and Berenice Abbott in the United States, Renger-Patzsch believed that the value of photography was in its ability to reproduce the texture of reality, and to represent the essence of an object. He wrote: "The secret of a good photograph—which, like a work of art, can have esthetic qualities—is its realism ... Let us therefore leave art to artists and endeavor to create, with the means peculiar to photography and without borrowing from art, photographs which will last because of their photographic qualities.
Among his works of the 1920s are Echeoeria (1922) and Viper's Head (ca. 1925). During the 1930s Renger-Patzsch made photographs for industry and advertising. His archives were destroyed during the Second World War. In 1944 he moved to Wamel, Möhnesee, where he lived the rest of his life."
(Wikipedia)