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HELMAR LERSKI
Köpfe des Alltags. Unbekannte Menschen -- Everyday Heads. Unknown People. Berlin: Hermann Reckendorf, 1931. 2° (300 x 230mm). 80 black and white photographs. Original spiral binding mounted in the original limp black cloth, front cover blind-lettered, original photo-illustrated dust-jacket (small chips to spine ends and edges, tear to the front flap fold with the front panel).
FIRST EDITION IN THE RARE DUST-JACKET. A VERY GOOD COPY OF LERSKI'S FIRST AND MOST FAMOUS BOOK. Lerski had worked as cameraman and photographer on a number of masterpieces of German Expressionist cinema, including Fritz Lang's Metropolis. He used Expressionist techniques to striking effect in this dramatically stylized document: his subjects are 'less representative types than complicated, anxious, and ephemeral souls flickering before the camera' (101 Books). 101 Books, pp.68-69 ('his first and most famous book'); Fotografia Publica, p.156 ('an influential photo-book'); The Open Book, pp. 98-99; The Photobook, pp.130-31.
Köpfe des Alltags. Unbekannte Menschen -- Everyday Heads. Unknown People. Berlin: Hermann Reckendorf, 1931. 2° (300 x 230mm). 80 black and white photographs. Original spiral binding mounted in the original limp black cloth, front cover blind-lettered, original photo-illustrated dust-jacket (small chips to spine ends and edges, tear to the front flap fold with the front panel).
FIRST EDITION IN THE RARE DUST-JACKET. A VERY GOOD COPY OF LERSKI'S FIRST AND MOST FAMOUS BOOK. Lerski had worked as cameraman and photographer on a number of masterpieces of German Expressionist cinema, including Fritz Lang's Metropolis. He used Expressionist techniques to striking effect in this dramatically stylized document: his subjects are 'less representative types than complicated, anxious, and ephemeral souls flickering before the camera' (101 Books). 101 Books, pp.68-69 ('his first and most famous book'); Fotografia Publica, p.156 ('an influential photo-book'); The Open Book, pp. 98-99; The Photobook, pp.130-31.
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