112 - 771 FINE and APPLIED ARTS, ART REFERENCE
- Backwr. w. large repaired tear; corners and spine-ends sl. worn; wr. sl. browned along fore-edge.
= Rare. Founded by George Mewes in 1926, Photographic Advertising Limited (1926-1969) was an advertising photography studio specialising in stock photography, advertising films, and commissions. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXVII.
- Inner hinges strengthened w. tape. Wrappers sl. dustsoiled; frontwr. 2 repaired tears; backstrip repaired w. scotch tape.
= Contains photographs by i.a. P. Zwart, Hoyningen-Huene, B. Weston, E.O. Hoppé, L. Moholy-Nagy, R. Hausmann.
Wright, R. 12 Million Black Voices. A Folk History of the Negro in the United States. Photo-direction by E. Rosskam. New York, Viking Press, 1946, 3rd printing, 152p., num. photogr. ills., orig. cl. w. (worn/ dam.) dustwr., large 8vo. - AND 6 others, i.a. K. BLOSSFELDT, Urformen der Kunst (Berlin, 1935, photogr. ills., orig. cl., folio. Waterstained); M. BOURKE-WHITE, Shooting the Russian War (New York, 1943, 3rd ed., photogr. ills., orig. cl. w. (dam.) dustwr., large 8vo); R. CAPA, Slightly Out of Focus (New York, 1947, photogr. ills., orig. cl., large 8vo) and A. HAUS, Moholy-Nagy: Photographs and Photograms. Engl. transl. F. Samson (New York, 1989, photogr. ills., orig. boards w. dustwr., 4to).
- Fine copies.
= 1. Sanne Sannes (1937- 1967); 4. Emmy Andriesse (1914-1953); 7. Paul Citroen (1896-1983); 8. Eduard Isaac Asser (1809-1894); 9. Eva Besnyö; 10. Jacob Olie Jbz (1834-1905); 12. Bernard F. Eilers (1878-1951).
- Lacks 2 albumen prints in issues no.2 and 5; lacks the 4 plates to the article "La photographie astronomique" in issue no.6; lacks the portrait of Félix Hement in issue no.7 and the portrait of Émile Bayard in issue no.9.
= The rare fiist year of this influential periodical.
- Wr. sl worn/ dustsoiled.
= Karel Plicka (2 diff. copies, each w. 12 cards, 1x textbooklet, 1x SIGNED by the photographer on inside frontwr.); ZDENKO FEYFAR (12 photogr. cards, textbooklet); VÁCLAV JÍRU (12 cards, accomp. textbooklet); KAREL HÁJEK (11 (of 12) cards, accomp. textbooklet); JOSEF EHM (10 cards).
AND 1 other similar: "Akty. Zdenka Virta" (12 orig. gelatin silver print cards, textbooklet, loose as issued in orig. envelope shaped wr., sm. 8vo).
- Inside wr. and opposite pages foxed. Wrappers soiled/ stained and sl. dam. in lower (frontwr.) and upper (backwr.) margin; frontwr. and (dam.) backstrip w. sello-tape(?) stain along margin.
= Parr/ Badger p.98f; Bolliger II, 289/ III, 102/ IV, 315 and 316/ V, 136/ VI, 311: "Das vielleicht modernste Photobuch, das nicht nur sagen will, die Welt ist schön, sondern ebenso, sie ist erregend, grausam und absonderlich (...)".
- Upper hinge weak; some sl. foxing (endpapers and first/ last few pages somewhat worse0. Binding sl. thumbed/ soiled; backstrip sl. discol. and trifle worn at extremities.
= Parr/ Badger I, p.124: "(...) Sander's magnum opus (whatever its roots in the dubious nineteenth-century 'science' of physiognomy) was thoroughly of the twentieth century - sceptical, objective, lucid. (...) But many of his classic images are included in this seminal photobook, and the essential qualities of Sander's vision can be seen. He took typical examples of professions, trades and social classes in Weimer Germany, and photographed them in the familiar environments in order to build up, piece by piece, a dispassionate image of the 'face' of society (...)". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXVI.
- All w. blindst. ex-libris.
= Photobook by the avant-garde film director, dramatist, poet and photographer Shuji Terayama (1935-1983). Cf. Parr/ Badger I, p.288: "Shuji Terayama (...) galvanized the visual artists as well as audiences with his iconoclastic daring, mixing up neo-Dada, beat poetry, surreal eroticism, Noh and Kabuki with alacrity and invention."
= LOT OF 6 COPIES, all one of 100 numb. and signed copies (but lacking the orig. photograph called for).
- Glassine dustwr. partly sl. yellowed and w. sm. tear in upper corner.
Oldenburg, C. More Ray Gun Poems (1960). Philadelphia, Moore College of Art/ Falcon Press, (1973), (2)p. (incl. wr.), ills. by CLAES OLDENBURG, orig. wr., obl. 4to.
- Sl. yellowed along margins.
- (Sl.) yellowed (incl. wr.); loosening. Backstrip worn away; backwr. dam.; frontwr. 2 sm. tears/ chips.
= Parr/ Badger III, p.19: "Work and War in Spain was published by the Spanish Embassy in London, and was aimed at a sympathetic foreign audience. That it was a goverment-sanctioned publication might remind us that the Spanish Civil War was not a left-wing revolution, but the Fascist overthrow of a legitimately elected government. Using agency images, the book stresses that legitimacy, depicting scens of work, education and industry. It shows no fighting, only military training, and tragically stresses that the Republicans were on the verge of winning the struggle: 'in the military sphere the worst is over'. Alas, that was not the case (...)".
= For the exhibitions Jack Welpott. The Halide Conversion, Robert Dawson, Jo Ann Calis (2x), Richard Misrach, Heinecken Selected Works and Eileen Cowin.
AND 1 other on photography: B. KRUGER and K. LINKER, Love for sale (New York, 1990, richly illustrated, orig. pict. boards, 4to).
= Publication by the C.P.N. just before the 1937 elections.
Feiten uit de Sowjet Unie. No.6 and 8. Ibid., Ver. v. Vrienden der Sowjet Unie, 1932, 2 issues, 32; 32p., orig. (not unif.) photomontage wr. (by ?).
- No.6 backwr. dam.; both vols. sm. annot. and ticket on frontwr.
- Sl. occas. foxing; spine splitting at ends. (Very) good copy.
= Contains an introd. by Glaser, the essay "Fotomontage" by Cesar Domela-Nieuwenhuis (who also initiated and organized the exhibition), "Fotomontage in der USSR" (part of an essay by G. Kluzis), a "Verzeichnis der Aussteller" (w. addresses) and illustrations by i.a. R. Haussmann, H. Höch, Vordemberge-Gildewart, P. Zwart, P. Schuitema, H. Bayer, L. Moholy-Nagy, J. Tschichold, C. Domela-Nieuwenhuis, G. Kluzis and A. Rodchenko. Extremely rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXVII.
- Dustwr. frayed and sl. chipped. = Kerssemakers 2147.