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Der Staat Ohne Arbeitslose. Drei Jahre "Funfjahresplan" (John Heartfield / Ernst Glaeser / F. C. Weiskopf / Kurella)
Cover with two photomontages by John Heartfield. With 265 photographs (with captions in German, English and French): peoples of the USSR, industry and public works, peasants on the "kolchoz", workers and soldiers of the Soviet Union, etc. With an afterword by A. Kurella, on the initiation, the planning and implementation in the first three years of the first 'Five-Year-Plan', which started in 1927 and transformed the USSR into an industrial nation.
N.V. Drukkerij en Uitgeversmaatschappij De Arbeiderspers (Jan Buijs / Joan Lursen)
Published on the occasion of the opening of the office building of the Arbeiderspers.
Introduction and 42 magnificent photo plates of interior and exterior, a fine example of Dutch Functionalism. Architects: Buys & Lürssen. The building was demolished in 1973.
Nature & Culture Woman (Peter Landow)
With all 120 sepia coloured photogravure plates with nudes of various nationalities. Bound in original publishers blue cloth, with gilt title lettering, gilt design on spine & top board. Photos are printed in rich brown heliogravure. Artistic/Pictorial nudes on the cusp of modernism: by Henry Buergel 3, Karl Schencker 6, Waldemar Eide, Trude Fleischmann 3, E O Hoppé 12 , Angelo 4 , Reiss 4, Franz Fiedler 2, Elsa Erdmann , Germaine Krull
Die Mosel Band II Deutsche Land / Deutsches Volk (August Sander)
Very rare publication by the famous german photographer August Sander about the Mozel. Including landscapes and portraits.
Paris (Andre Kertesz / Mac Orlan)
One of the rarest books by Kertesz. Contains 47 photographs printed in grafure. Referenced in the "802 Photobooks from the M + M Auer Collection" on page 207.
Berlin (Pierre Mac Orlan)
Original pictorial wrappers. Scarce and fascinating work of th e Berlin of the early years of the Third Reich by one of the most famous French novelists and journalists. Pierre Mac Orlan exposes his thoughts on each one of the 66 photogravures compiled in this book. This scarce work is a part of a collection intitled "Tour du Monde" which only got 2 titles (London and Berlin). The publisher of this book seems to have retrieved or destroyed the majority of its copies, due to the too openly anti-Nazi critics stated by Mac Orlan, which would explain its scarcity.
De Sunlightfabrieken aan de Maas (Anonymous / Paul Schuitema)
Brochure Sunlight Fabrieken (Unilever) Vlaardingen, ca.1935. Great example of 30' photomontage and Nieuwe Zakelijkheid design. Possibly by Paul Schuitema. Printed in black and blue.
Nos amis les betes (Andre Kertesz)
Very rare early Kertesz book published in Paris by Éditions d'Histoire et d'Art. A compilation of 60 photographs of various animals and is dedicated to Szigetbecse, where he took his earliest photographs. Nos amis les bêtes
The Street Markets of London (Mary Benedetta / L. Moholy-Nagy)
First Edition 1936 with b&w photographs by L. Maholy-Nagy.
Written by Mary Bendetta who takes you browsing among the stalls and shoppers of the London street markets in 1936. Foreword by Moholy-Nagy.
Highlights and Shadows (Arnold Genthe)
Spiralbound paperback with translucent plastic cover. Numerous black and white photos of nudes.
Kupferhammer Grunthal Vierhundert Jahre deutscher Architektur, 1537-1937 (Albert Renger-Patzsch / Ernst von Laer)
1st and only edition. Original tan cloth as issued. Embossed with Gründthal copperwoks arms on the front cover. Introduction by Ernst von Laer. 50 b&w plates by Renger-Patzsch. Parr / Badger, v2, 186
Rural Youth on Relief (Bruce Melvin)
1937 first edition includes photographs by Dorothy Lange and photo illustrations by Rothstein, Lee and others, original printed wraps.
Portrait of Eton (Moholy-Nagy / Bernard Fergusson)
Oliver green cloth with black spine label With plates by L Moholy-Nagy, and a chapter on College by Philip Brownrigg
Menschen van de straat (Piet Marée / H. de Bruin / M.J. Brusse)
"People of the streets". A collection of novels and poems about Dutch city life just before WWII.
With 44 beautiful b&w photographs of Piet Marée, divided in 3 groups, each group with a different toning.
With contributions of H. de Bruin, M.J. Brusse, Antoon Coolen, Roel Houwink, Jo Kalmijn-Spierenburg, Reinold Kuipers, Hendrika Kuyper-Van Oordt, Sjoerd Leiker, E. v. Oostzee-Prinsen, Rudolf v. Reest, Jan Roselaar, D. v.d. Stoep, B. Stroma Baarn, Emile Verhaeren, D.de Vries, Jo Ypma.
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