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ALBERT RENGER-PATZSCH
Die Welt ist Schön -- The World is Beautiful. Munich: Kurt Wolff, 1928. 4° (287 x 213mm). 100 black and white photographs. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover blocked in silver, original pictorial dust-jacket (faint scattered spotting on fore-edge and a few leaves, dust-jacket with light soiling, a few tears and chips at folds and extremities, spine evenly sunned, spine head chipped).
FIRST EDITION, IN THE RARE DUST-JACKET, 'ONE OF THE BEST-KNOWN TITLES IN PHOTOBOOK HISTORY' (The Photobook). 101 Books, pp.50-51 ('the New Objectivity style he sparked was one of Germany's most pervasive modernist movements'); The Open Book, pp.68-9; The Photobook, p.97.
Die Welt ist Schön -- The World is Beautiful. Munich: Kurt Wolff, 1928. 4° (287 x 213mm). 100 black and white photographs. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover blocked in silver, original pictorial dust-jacket (faint scattered spotting on fore-edge and a few leaves, dust-jacket with light soiling, a few tears and chips at folds and extremities, spine evenly sunned, spine head chipped).
FIRST EDITION, IN THE RARE DUST-JACKET, 'ONE OF THE BEST-KNOWN TITLES IN PHOTOBOOK HISTORY' (The Photobook). 101 Books, pp.50-51 ('the New Objectivity style he sparked was one of Germany's most pervasive modernist movements'); The Open Book, pp.68-9; The Photobook, p.97.
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