Vendeur : Buchhandlung Shakespeare & Company, Berlin, Allemagne
Softcover. Etat : Neu. Etat de la jaquette : Neu. 1. Auflage. Limitiert, nummeriert (297/1000), Facsimile der Originalausgabe von 1931. Im leinenbezogenem Schuber. N° de réf. du vendeur ABE-1536850657167
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Vendeur : 1968agency, Montecatini Terme, PT, Italie
Brossura. Etat : nuovo. Etat de la jaquette : nuovo. prima edizione, edizione speciale. One of the most important (and rarest) photobooks in the history of the medium, Moï Ver's Paris, first published in 1931 by Éditions Jeanne Walter, was avant-garde in its layered photos of the city's streets and industry, not to mention its graphic layout. Yet tragedy soon struck: 95% of production was destroyed by a flood of the Seine with only around 40 books surviving, of which the publisher's archival copy found its way into Karl Lagerfeld's private collection. This exceptional copy was scanned for the painstaking 2004 facsimile re-print of Paris, published by Edition 7L and produced by Steidl in a limited print-run of 1,000 copies. Gerhard Steidl's challenge was to recreate the gravure printing of the original book in offset technology, a process for which he registered a patent and experimented for over three years. To ensure the longevity of printing and binding quality, Steidl produced at the time a "pilot series" of books, identical to the long since sold-out run of 1,000 copies. This series of just over 400 copies?forgotten in our warehouse and recently rediscovered?are the last copies of a facsimile claimed by the New York Times to be so close to the original, that future generations would not be able to differentiate them. This copy is number 170/1000. N° de réf. du vendeur ABE-1773916136609
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Vendeur : ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, Etats-Unis
Softcover. Etat : vg to fine. Facsimile edition. 800/1000. Quarto. Unpaginated. 6pp (text), 80pp (photographs), (2)pp. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over blind wrappers, with blue lettering on cover and spine, housed in gray cloth clamshell box with black lettering on paper label laid to debossed square on cover; black lettered paper label on spine. Facsimile reproduction of "Paris" by Moshé Raviv-Worobeichic (Moï Ver) from copy No. 1 of the first edition published in 1931 by Editions Jeanne Walther. Introduction by Futurist Fernand Léger. Facsimile edition of "this revolutionary work which introduced Moï Ver to the world is a striking tour de force of photomontage utilizing Bauhaus style photography and design. Its 80 pages of avant-garde photomontages evoke a modern form of Paris through his visualizations. The method in which Moï Ver chose to present his material, in its kaleidoscopic layering and frenzied repetitiveness, emphasizes an experimental approach to picture-construction. In this sense, Paris remains the author's quintessential avant-garde book object. The jacket's front cover superimposes factory smokestacks upon a classic stone colonnade, thus setting up familiar juxtapositions: art and industry, antique and modern, beauty and banality. Moï Ver's Paris is a metropolis pulsating with fast-paced daily life, moving almost out of control. Cobblestone streets, bustling crowds, facades, railway tracks, bridges, the glittering river, and countless monuments shift and shatter here" (Andrew Roth: "The Book of 101 Books," pp. 70-71). It is interesting to note that Karl Lagerfeld's facsimile edition of this work features the photographs in a different order, which seems to indicate that the legendary designer's copy was at some point disbound, with pages mixed up, and rebound without following the original pagination. Provenance: the legacy of French painter Charles Marcel Jean Picart Le Doux (1902-1982). Text in French. N° de réf. du vendeur 51490
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