This is the LAST EXCLUSIVE BEST-OF-PHOTOBOOKS AUCTION by 5Uhr30.com, Cologne, Germany - STARTING THIS YEAR. Wonderful reprint of one of the MOST IMPORTANT, MOST BEAUTIFUL, MOST SCARCE and one the MOST EXPENSIVE photobooks ever published: Martin Parr, Gerry Badger, The photobook, volume 1, page 128 /129 Originally limited to 1000 copies only, here one of the 500 extra copies, forgotten in publisher`s warehouse and refound 2019 (here number 242/500). Fantastic faksimile reproduction of "Paris" by Moshe Raviv-Vorobeichic (Moi Ver) from copy No. 1 of the first edition published in 1931 by Editions Jeanne Walther. New, mint, unread; still originally wrapped in publisher's paper. 5Uhr30.com guarantees detailed and accurate descriptions, 100% transport protection, 100% transport insurance and of course combined shipping - worldwide. Editions 7L, Paris, 2004. Paperback with dustjacket. 220 x 293 mm. 84 unnumbered pages. 80 black and white photographs. Copyright by Maya Raviv-Vorobeichic. Reproduction and print by: Göttingen, Steidl, 2004. Introduction de Fernand Leger. Text in French. Fantastic photobook - in perfect condition. "One of the most important (and rarest) photobooks in the history of the medium, Moï Ver`s Paris, first published in 1931 by Éditions Jeanne Walter, was avant-garde in its layered photos of the city`s streets and industry, not to mention its graphic layout. Yet tragedy soon struck: 95% of production was destroyed by a flood of the Seine with only around 40 books surviving, of which the publisher`s archival copy found its way into Karl Lagerfeld`s private collection. This exceptional copy was scanned for the painstaking 2004 facsimile re-print of Paris, published by Edition 7L and produced by Steidl in a limited print-run of 1,000 copies. Gerhard Steidl`s challenge was to recreate the gravure printing of the original book in offset technology, a process for which he registered a patent and experimented for over three years. To ensure the longevity of printing and binding quality, Steidl produced at the time a `pilot series` of books, identical to the long since sold-out run of 1,000 copies. This series of just over 400 copies - forgotten in our warehouse and recently rediscovered - are the last copies of a facsimile claimed by the New York Times to be so close to the original, that future generations would not be able to differentiate them." (publisher`s text) Vorobeichic was a Lithuanian painter and photographer. In 1927 he took courses at the Bauhaus with Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, and Joseph Albers. Later he studied at the famous Ecole de Photo Ciné in Paris. His quintessential avant-garde book "Paris" was published in 1931 in a limited edition of 1000 (Martin Parr, The Photobook, vol 1, page 128/129). After several unrealised projects for photographic books, necessity led him to begin a career as a reporter. He immigrated to Palestine in 1934. From 1950 he devoted himself to painting. He died in 1995.