Albert Renger-Patzsch, Ernst Jünger - Gestein (WITH SLIPCASE) - 1966

EARLY, VERY BEAUTIFUL, HIGHLY IMPRESSIVE BIG-FORMAT PHOTOBOOK by Albert Renger-Patzsch (1897-1966), one of the leading figures of the "New German Objectivity".

With text by famous German author Ernst Jünger.

COMPLETE WITH ORIGINAL SLIPCASE.

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Albert Renger-Patzsch is known for many great photobooks, such as "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), "Eisen und Stahl" (Martin Parr, The Photobook, vol 1, page 125) or '400 Jahre Kupferhammer Grünthal'. "New Objectivity").

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

Original hardcover in grey linen with original 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 very clean with no previous owner marks and with no foxing; the pages smell a bit like a damp cellar (with no consequence for the book inside and outside); no other remarkable flaws or defects. Slipcase complete with no missing parts; trace of use. Overall fine condition.

Great photobook by Renger in impressive big-size format - complete with original slipcase.

"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)