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Title: AIZ Pictorial. Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung [The Workers Pictorial Newspaper], Year of 1933 Author: Place: Berlin Publisher: Date: 1933 Description: Bound edition for the year 1933 covering the period from the first issue of that year until December 1933, and runs from page 2-864. (Folio) 10½x14¾", period cloth. The AIZ was a German illustrated magazine published between 1924 and March 1933 in Berlin, and afterward in Prague and finally Paris until 1938. Anti-Fascism and pro-Communism in stance, it was published by Willi Munzenberg and is best remembered for the propagandistic photomontages of John Heartfield It was started by the Workers International Relief in Berlin in in 1921 as a magazine of Soviet Russia in pictures with reports of the newly created Russian Soviet state, its achievements and problems. It grew rapidly during the 1920’s and in 1924 was renamed the AIZ with a new format. In 1928 it became a weekly and was the most widely read Socialist pictorial newspaper in Germany. The magazine covered current events etc. and also focused on women’s issues and gender relations. Munzenberg wanted the AIZ to connect the Communist Party of Germany to a broad educated readership. The photojournalism, often striking, was predominantly worker photography until 1920 when the magazine associated with John Heartfield whose photomontages savagely attacked both National Socialism and Weimar Capitalism and became a regular feature. The last issue published in Berlin was dated March 5, 1933 after the seizure of power by Hitler, and the AIZ went into exile in Prague. When the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia, the publication was moved to Paris in 1938, where it eventually ceased publication. This volume covers the period when the magazine moved from Berlin to Prague. The photography which fills every page is astounding and photographs of the Nazis and the Hitler regime taking over Germany are amazing. The magazines are printed in sepia tone photogravure on very fragile lightweight paper. In 2011 Museo Reina Sofia organized an exhibition in Madrid, “The Worker Photography Movement, 1928-1939” which included many numbers of the AIZ. An important Weimar photography documentary and a rare survivor of the complete year of 1933. Lot Amendments Condition: The full cloth binding is completely loose from the text block and is in need of restoration; internally it is in surprisingly good condition considering the fragile nature of the pages, the first 24 pages are loose from the binding and tattered, but appear complete. Item number: 242313