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ALEXEY BRODOVITCH
Ballet. New York: J.J. Augustin, 1945. Oblong quarto (280 x 215mm). 104 black and white photographs. Original drab boards with cloth spine, original grey and white French fold dust-jacket pasted down at spine, as issued (lightly sunned, dust-jacket spine and front cover chipped, tears).
FIRST EDITION. 'A LEGENDARY PHOTOBOOK', and 'one of the most successful attempts at suggesting motion in photography, and certainly one of the most cinematic and dynamic photobooks ever published' (The Photobook). It is a radical work, both in layout and technique, which 'spat in the face of technique and pointed out a new way in which photographers could work' (Kerry William Purcell, quoted in The Photobook). 1 of 500 copies, the entire edition. 101 Books, pp.110-13; The Open Book, pp.136-37; The Photobook, pp.240-41; Regards 85.
Ballet. New York: J.J. Augustin, 1945. Oblong quarto (280 x 215mm). 104 black and white photographs. Original drab boards with cloth spine, original grey and white French fold dust-jacket pasted down at spine, as issued (lightly sunned, dust-jacket spine and front cover chipped, tears).
FIRST EDITION. 'A LEGENDARY PHOTOBOOK', and 'one of the most successful attempts at suggesting motion in photography, and certainly one of the most cinematic and dynamic photobooks ever published' (The Photobook). It is a radical work, both in layout and technique, which 'spat in the face of technique and pointed out a new way in which photographers could work' (Kerry William Purcell, quoted in The Photobook). 1 of 500 copies, the entire edition. 101 Books, pp.110-13; The Open Book, pp.136-37; The Photobook, pp.240-41; Regards 85.
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