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The true first printing of Brecht’s famous photobook of war, conceived during his exile and first published in the GDR in 1955. For Kriegsfibel he clipped press photographs of the Second World War from newspapers and magazines and paired each image with a four line poem, his “photo epigrams”. The book unfolds as a sequence of 85 image–text pages that teaches the reader how to read war photography critically, exposing the ideology and rhetoric behind contemporary press captions.

This first Eulenspiegel edition is the original realisation of the project and a crucial meeting point of literature, photography and political education. It is a key title for collections on Brecht, photobooks and the visual culture of the Second World War.

Now widely recognised as a landmark of twentieth century photobook history, Kriegsfibel is included in Parr and Badger’s The Photobook: A History and has become a touchstone for later artists and theorists of war photography, most notably Broomberg and Chanarin’s War Primer 2.

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Berlin: Eulenspiegel Verlag für Satire und Humor, 1955. First edition, 1.–10. Tausend. 4to (approx. 30 × 25.5 cm). Original black cloth lettered in white on upper board and spine in photo-illustrated dust jacket. 70, [4] pp., with full-page black and white photographs printed in gravure. Text in German.

Cloth with only light rubbing to extremities and corners. Small contemporary ink ownership signature to front free endpaper, otherwise interior fresh and unmarked, pages crisp, binding tight.

Dust jacket about good: overall rubbing and edge wear, several short tears, creasing to upper front panel, and small chips to spine ends and corners. Very good copy in a good dust jacket.

Photography, Art, Europe, Politics - Quantity: 1 - Dust jacket - Photo book

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