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Une photographie, c'est le même principe que le tableau. Il faut composer et chercher un équilibre stable [...] Comme pour le tableau, il cherche la durée, et, par conséquent, il doit pressentir ses "limites" qui sont strictement d'ordre plastique (F. Léger, Préface).
MOÏ VER, Mosche Raviv-Vorobeichic dit (1904-1995) (1904-1985). Paris. Paris: Éditions Jeanne Walter, 1931. In-4 (298 x 223 mm). 78 photomontages de Moï Ver imprimés en héliogravure. Broché, couverture originale illustrée d’une photographie (légèrement frottée, petite fente en haut du dos. Couture fragile).
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MOÏ VER, Mosche Raviv-Vorobeichic dit (1904-1995) (1904-1985). Paris. Paris: Éditions Jeanne Walter, 1931. In-4 (298 x 223 mm). 78 photomontages de Moï Ver imprimés en héliogravure. Broché, couverture originale illustrée d’une photographie (légèrement frottée, petite fente en haut du dos. Couture fragile).
ÉDITION ORIGINALE tirée à 1000 exemplaires, celui-ci le n° 193. “Multiple exposures and juxtapositions were also used in avant-garde photographic publications. The most elaborate example of this approach is Paris (1931), a book of photographs by Moï Ver (whose original name was Moses Vorobeichic; 1904-1995), an artist-Photographer of Lithuanian origin who studied at the Bauhaus and settled in Paris in the 1930s. His masterpiece drew on imagery introduced in avant-garde films such as Walter Ruttmann’s Symphonie der Grossstadt (Symphony of the Big City)’ (Andel 299). ‘Not the least amazing thing about this book is that, taken individually, Moï Ver’s images are not all that memorable, indeed most are frankly quite banal. Yet photobooks are about synthesis and sequence, and that is where Moï Ver has triumphed, with a fresh and startling photobook masterpiece” (Parr-Badger I, 128).
ÉDITION ORIGINALE tirée à 1000 exemplaires, celui-ci le n° 193. “Multiple exposures and juxtapositions were also used in avant-garde photographic publications. The most elaborate example of this approach is Paris (1931), a book of photographs by Moï Ver (whose original name was Moses Vorobeichic; 1904-1995), an artist-Photographer of Lithuanian origin who studied at the Bauhaus and settled in Paris in the 1930s. His masterpiece drew on imagery introduced in avant-garde films such as Walter Ruttmann’s Symphonie der Grossstadt (Symphony of the Big City)’ (Andel 299). ‘Not the least amazing thing about this book is that, taken individually, Moï Ver’s images are not all that memorable, indeed most are frankly quite banal. Yet photobooks are about synthesis and sequence, and that is where Moï Ver has triumphed, with a fresh and startling photobook masterpiece” (Parr-Badger I, 128).
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First edition with 78 pages reproducing photomontages in black and white. Limited edition of 1000 numbered copies, this is n° 193.
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