Die Welt ist Schön. Einhundert photographische Aufnahmen von Albert Renger-Patzsch
Renger-patzsch
Munich. Kurt Wolff Verlag. 1928
Sold
First edition in the rare dust-jacket, and even RARER wrap-around printed OBI.
'One of the best-known titles in photobook history, Die Welt ist Schön (The World is Beautiful) was originally going to be called Die Dinge (Things). Seen by many as the epitome of the 'straight' photographic ethos because of its apparent stark objectivity, Renger-Patzsch's work, like that of Karl Blossfeldt, explores with extraordinary resonance the complexity of the close-up. [Parr & Badger, The Photobook I, page 97].
'One of the best-known titles in photobook history, Die Welt ist Schön (The World is Beautiful) was originally going to be called Die Dinge (Things). Seen by many as the epitome of the 'straight' photographic ethos because of its apparent stark objectivity, Renger-Patzsch's work, like that of Karl Blossfeldt, explores with extraordinary resonance the complexity of the close-up. [Parr & Badger, The Photobook I, page 97].
pp. 22. 4to. Introductory text and list of plates, followed by 100 photographic plates by Renger-Patzsch, printed on rectos only. Text in German. With introduction by Carl Georg Heise. Small degree of foxing to inner margin of early text leaves. Original gilt-stamped limp blue cloth, original photographic dust jacket, and original printed obi. Slight tears to head and fore-edge of dust-jacket, with only minor loss to head of spine. Effects of sun bleaching to dust-jacket spine and small exposed section of cloth binding along upper edge. Small damp stain to lower forecorner of front board with resultant leaking of blue dye from cloth to insde of the dust-jacket. This can only be seen when the dust-jacket is removed as the inkage does not permeate through the dust-jacket, and is not visible from the front when the dust-jacket is in place.
#35145
