GERMAINE KRULL
GERMAINE KRULL Métal . Introduction by Florent Fels. Paris: Librairie des Arts Décoratifs, 1928. 64 black and white collotype plates (occasional minor soling or light browning in the margins, the last plate with a short tear in the margin neatly repaired). Loose, as issued, in the original photo-illustrated portfolio (cloth spine possibly strengthened, light wear, light soiling); cloth folding case. FIRST EDITION. "AT THE FOREFRONT OF RADICAL MODERNISM"; "THE FINEST EXAMPLE OF A MODERNIST PHOTOBOOK IN THE DYNAMIC, CINEMATIC MODE" ( The Photobook ). Métal established Krull as a leading modernist. Man Ray, in the 1920s, remarked: "Germaine, you and I are the greatest photographers of our time, I in the old sense you in the modern one" (quoted in 101 Books ). 101 Books , pp.46-7; The Open Book , pp.64-5; The Photobook , vo. I, p.95 and cf. p.78; Regards à travers le livre 22.
GERMAINE KRULL
GERMAINE KRULL Métal . Introduction by Florent Fels. Paris: Librairie des Arts Décoratifs, 1928. 64 black and white collotype plates (occasional minor soling or light browning in the margins, the last plate with a short tear in the margin neatly repaired). Loose, as issued, in the original photo-illustrated portfolio (cloth spine possibly strengthened, light wear, light soiling); cloth folding case. FIRST EDITION. "AT THE FOREFRONT OF RADICAL MODERNISM"; "THE FINEST EXAMPLE OF A MODERNIST PHOTOBOOK IN THE DYNAMIC, CINEMATIC MODE" ( The Photobook ). Métal established Krull as a leading modernist. Man Ray, in the 1920s, remarked: "Germaine, you and I are the greatest photographers of our time, I in the old sense you in the modern one" (quoted in 101 Books ). 101 Books , pp.46-7; The Open Book , pp.64-5; The Photobook , vo. I, p.95 and cf. p.78; Regards à travers le livre 22.
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