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◇ Germany - The New Photography 1927-1933 by David MELLOR, editor: Arts Council of Great Britain Soft cover, 1st Edition - William Gregory, Bookseller
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London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1978. (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in, 21.4 x 14 cm). 136 pp. First edition. Uncommon. A terrific book containing "documents and essays selected and edited by David Mellor". Original photographically illustrated wrappers in near fine condition, tight and firmly bound (age toning to extremities, minimal shelf wear and creasing, overall an excellent copy). From the back cover: "By 1930 a new kind of photography had developed in Germany. It included the work of Bauhaus cameramen like Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Werner Graff; the New Objectivity photographers, Albert Renger-Patzsch and Helmar Lerski; and finally, the photo-journalists who pictured society, like Erich Salomon, Felix Man" "Germany - The New Photography 1927-33 gathers together, for the first time, the lost history of this movement, through translations of key documents, several of which have been rediscovered and translated especially for this book. It contains prefaces and introductions from the influential photobooks, 'Köpfe des Alltags' and 'Die Welt ist Schön', as well as criticisms and commentaries by Franz Roh, Paul Nash and Walter Benjamin." Includes the preface by Karl Nierendorf to 'Urformen der Kunst' (1928) and a review of the same by Walter Benjamin and Alfred Döblin's introduction to August Sander's 'Antlitz der Zeit' (1928). Uncommon. Bookseller Inventory # 2011262
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