"Willy Maywald (1907-1985) was one of the most important photographers in Paris from the 1930s to the 1950s. His education in the Technical Schools of Art in Krefeld, Cologne and Berlin shaped his avant-garde design idiom. In 1932 he was drawn to the City of Light, where he became friends with many champions of the Modern Art movement. Encompassing both commissioned art and self-initiated works, Maywald’s subject spectrum ranges from a spectacular collection of photographic portraits, to fashion photos for all the major Paris couture houses, to dance and architecture photography as well as travel and city reportage. A large proportion of these photos have never before been exhibited. Accompanied by the publication of the book of the same title, the exhibition Willy Maywald: Photographer and Cosmopolitan. Portraits, Fashion Reportage – showing in the Museum for Photography from March 2015 – will for the first time display the complete work of Maywald in all its facets, thereby enabling the (re)discovery of an important figure in photography." (from the publsiher) Kerber, Bielefeld, Berlin. In collaboration with Association Willy Maywald, Maisons-Laffitte. 2015. First edition, First printing. Hardcover (as issued). 250 x 300 mm. 334 pages. 225 duplex illustrations. Photos: Willy Maywald. Edited by Jutta Niemann, Association Willy Maywald and Ludger Derenthal, Kunstbibliothek - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Text by Katharina Sykora. Graphic design Zentrale, Berlin, Tobias Honert and Jan Wirth. Text in English and German. Condition: Inside very fresh and very clean with no marks and with no foxing; looks like unread. Outside fresh, but with trace of use and with a heavy bump at the top right corner of the front (concerns the first blank page, but no further pages). Overall very good condition. Great Willy Maywald work overview. Published on the occasion of the same-named exhibition at "Kunstbibliothek - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin" and at "Association Willy Maywald at Museum für Fotografie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin" in 2015.