VERY BEAUTIFUL, WIDELY UNKNOWN INTRODUCTION TO NUDE PHOTOGRAPHY - WITH THE VERY SCARCE ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET. With photos by the well-known polish-german photographer Willy Zielke (1902 Lodz, Poland - 1989 Bad Pyrmont, Germany). Willy Zielke is famous for this photos for the "Leni Riefenstahl" book "Schönheit im Olympischen Kampf" (1937). ENJOY THE FIRST EROTIC PHOTOBOOK AUCTION by 5Uhr30.com (Ecki Heuser, Cologne, Germany). 5Uhr30.com guarantees detailed and accurate descriptions, 100% protection, 100% insurance and combined shipping worldwide. "Before moving to Germany with his family, Willy Otto Zielke studied railway engineering in Russia. He settled in Munich and began to study photography at the Bayerische Staatslehranstalt für Fotografie. He made precisely crafted photographs, including many still-life compositions, and was then appointed master teacher at the school in 1928. In 1932 he began working with motion pictures and produced his first film, Arbeitslos. In 1936 Zielke produced the prologue for Leni Riefenstahl's film Olympiad. After World War II he worked as a translator in Potsdam and then returned to West Germany, where he worked as an industrial filmmaker, sometimes under the pseudonym Victor Valet. He later settled in Bad Pyrmont, Germany." (Getty Museum Collection) Wilhelm Knapp, Düsseldorf. 1961. First edition, second printing. Hardcover with dustjacket. 145 x 195 mm. 64 pages. 38 photos. Photos: Willy Zielke. Text in German. Condition: Book inside and outside excellent, fresh and flawless; clean with no marks and with no foxing. Dustjacket fresh, impressive and complete and with no missing parts; light trace of use. Overall very fine condition. Wonderful, small nude theory book with many black and white photos, a perfect introduction to nude photography - with the original dustjacket.