Schindehütte & Waldschmidt - Auf den Leib geschrieben (1 and 2) - 1968
编号 81541399
Albert Renger-Patzsch - Die Welt ist schön - 1928
编号 81541399
Albert Renger-Patzsch - Die Welt ist schön - 1928
ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL GERMAN PHOTOBOOKS EVER PUBLISHED -
by Albert Renger-Patzsch, who stands for the "New Objectivity" of the 1920s and 1930s like no other photographer.
Mentioned in all important books about photobooks:
- 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
True first printing in original blue linen (there was also a later edition published in red cloth in 1930).
With the dustjacket as excellent facsimile.
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Kurt Wolff Verlag, Munich, 1928. First edition, first printing
Original hardback in original blue linen with dustjacket as professional (expensive) fascimile (not as cheap photocopy). 223 x 290 mm. 226 pages. Photos: Albert Renger-Patzsch. Text in German.
Condition:
Original book inside clean with no marks, stronger foxed at the first and at the last two pages (what is often the case), but all text and all photo pages fresh and clean. Book outside used with some stains, sunned at the spine (like so often), a bit teared at the bottom of the spine (with no consequence for inside). Dustjacket (as facsimile) fresh, like new. Overall very good condition.
One of the classics, one of the masterpieces in the history of the photobook.
The most important book by the famous German photographer Albert Renger-Patzsch.
Scarce.