WERNER GRÄFF
WERNER GRÄFF Es Kommt Der Neue Fotograf! -- Here Comes the New Photographer! Berlin: Hermann Reckendorf, 1929. Octavo (255 x 190 mm). ca 148 black and white photographs. (Negligible faint scattered spotting on title.) Original orange cloth, spine and front cover blocked in blue, original photo-illustrated dust jacket (extremities of panels with small repairs); black cloth folding case. FIRST EDITION. A VERY GOOD COPY IN THE RARE DUST-JACKET. A KEY WORK IN NEW VISION PHOTOGRAPHY. One of the two books, with Foto-Auge, published around "Film und Foto" -- perhaps the greatest photography exhibition ever organized: "not since the great international exhibitions of the 1850s and 1860s had there been such a broad display of the photographic arts, intended not just to show photography but to examine its place in society" ( The Photobook ). Appart from his own work, Gräff features photographs by Willi Baumeister Herbert Bayer Andreas Feininger Siegfried Giedion, John Heartfield El Lissitzky Man Ray, Albert Renger-Patzsch Hans Richter and others. The Open Book, pp.74-75; The Photobook, pp.98-9.
WERNER GRÄFF
WERNER GRÄFF Es Kommt Der Neue Fotograf! -- Here Comes the New Photographer! Berlin: Hermann Reckendorf, 1929. Octavo (255 x 190 mm). ca 148 black and white photographs. (Negligible faint scattered spotting on title.) Original orange cloth, spine and front cover blocked in blue, original photo-illustrated dust jacket (extremities of panels with small repairs); black cloth folding case. FIRST EDITION. A VERY GOOD COPY IN THE RARE DUST-JACKET. A KEY WORK IN NEW VISION PHOTOGRAPHY. One of the two books, with Foto-Auge, published around "Film und Foto" -- perhaps the greatest photography exhibition ever organized: "not since the great international exhibitions of the 1850s and 1860s had there been such a broad display of the photographic arts, intended not just to show photography but to examine its place in society" ( The Photobook ). Appart from his own work, Gräff features photographs by Willi Baumeister Herbert Bayer Andreas Feininger Siegfried Giedion, John Heartfield El Lissitzky Man Ray, Albert Renger-Patzsch Hans Richter and others. The Open Book, pp.74-75; The Photobook, pp.98-9.
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