736 - 1327 FINE and APPLIED ARTS, ART REFERENCE
- Lacks one plate; rebacked w. cloth; boards sl. chafed.
= Rare photography portfolio. Löwy was an Austrian photographer who specialized in portrait and atelier photography, including the Belle monde of Vienna (i.a. actors and artists). After the Anschluss he emigrated to Brasil with his wife. According to the colophon 1000 copies were printed, but because of its rarity probably much less.
= Parr/ Wassink Lundgren, The Chinese Photobook from the 1900s to the Present, p.398.
Idem. Give me your image. Gött., Steidl, 2006, no pagination, full-p. col. photogr. plates by the same, orig. boards.
= SIGNED in pen on title-p.
AND 2 others by the same, i.a. Vrouwen te gast (Amst., 1979, ills., orig. limp boards, obl. 8vo).
- Wrappers trifle soiled/ backstrip browned; spine-ends chipped.
= Album du premier Salon International du nu photographique Paris 1933. Photographs of female nudes by i.a. L. Moholy-Nagy, E.O. Hoppé, Man Ray, G. Platt Lynes, F. Drtikol, A. Feininger and H. von Perckhammer.
- Loosening; upper hinge broken; first free endpaper loose. Backstrip wrinkled and mounted on bookblock.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXIII.
AND 1 similar by the same: The Human Figure in Motion (ibid., 1901, 2nd ed., num. photogr. ills., orig. giltlettered cl., obl. folio. Hinges broken; a few lvs. loose; owner's entry).
- Backstrip and upper edge frontcover sunned. = Van Sinderen p.278.
- Dustwrapper sl. chipped/ foxed.
= Parr/ Badger I, p.196: "This book was published two years after the liberation of Holland from the Nazis. It marks both an end and a beginning. When it was published, the leading members of the Underground Camera group, like the country, were about to move on. As members of a new group, GKf, most of them took part in the exhibition 'Foto '48'. Amsterdam tijdens den[sic] hongerwinter [...] looked back, while 'Foto '48' looked forward, but both shared a manifesto that made a passionate plea for an anti-formalist documentary photography that would help forge a more just and free Holland, following the occupation. [...] Nevertheless, the publication's first task was to bear witness [...]. This snatched, off-kilter approach generated an immediate, spontaneous aesthetic of its own, which fed directly into postwar Dutch photography in an extremely positive way. So this was an important book in that sense also. It was a landmark publication by a group of photographers with both an ethical and an aesthetic attitude, a group who would exert a great influence on Dutch photography and the Dutch photobook in the late 1940s and 50s."
- Binding dustsoiled and sl. faded.
= Fine portraits of i.a. illustrious French and Dutch men and women, i.a. Sarah Bernhardt, Edouard Détaille, Anatole France, M. Mees, Jan Wolter Niemeijer, Otto Reuchlin, Edmond Rostand and D.T. Ruys. Rare.
- Lacks textp. of last portrait. Sl. foxed in blank margins; 2 textlvs. loose (1x sl. frayed). Otherwise fine.
= Rare. Fine portraits of illustrious Dutch people of the time, i.a. Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, Prince Hendrik, W.H. de Beaufort, J. van Hoboken, W. Mengelberg, F.S. van Nierop, D.T. Ruys, A.S. Talma, J.V. Wierdsma.
- Without vol. 1 and 2.
Karasik, M. The Soviet Photobook 1920-1941. Ed. M. Heiting. Göttingen, Steidl, 2015, 636p., richly illustrated, orig. pict. boards, 4to. - AND 2 others, i.a. F. GIERSTBERG and R. SUERMONDT, Het Nederlandse Fotoboek (Rott., 2012, num. col. ills., orig. pict. boards, 4to).
= Comprises: XV. La petite ville (w. contributions by i.a. J. Cocteau and G. Simenon); XXXI. Imprimeries clandestines; XXXIV/XXXV. L'Art Roman du Roussillon; XXXVIII. Atelier de batisseur Le Corbusier - L'Unité d'habitation de Marseille (backstrip sl. dam.); XL. Le jazz (photogr. ills. mainly by ROBERT DOISNEAU); LVII. Bistrots (photogr. ills. by ROBERT DOISNEAU); LVIII. L'Aventure de la Musique au XXe siècle (ills., photogr. ills. mainly by ROBERT DOISNEAU).
- Contents loosening. A few trifle rubbed spots along extremities.
Modern Photography. The Studio Annual. Ed. C.G. Holme. London/ New York, The Studio, 1931, (17),119,(1)p., num. photographic plates/ ills., orig. wr., 4to.
- Bookplate on title-p. Backwr. foxed; frontwr. dam. in upper left corner; spine dam.
= Contains photographs by i.a. H. Bayer, E.O. Hoppé, G. Kiljan, Man Ray, L. Moholy-Nagy and P. Schuitema.
= A splendid chronological guide to collecting 20th century photography books.
Curtis, V.P. Photographic Memory. The Album in the Age of Photography. Ibid., Aperture, 2011, 288p., richly illustrated, orig. cl. w. mounted plates, 4to.