KARL BLOSSFELDT Urformen der Kunst -- Archetypal Forms in Art . Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, 1928. 4° (312 x 244mm). 120 black and white photographs. Original green cloth, spine and front cover blocked in gilt, original photo-illustrated dust-jacket (soiling on endpapers, dust-jacket extremities with small repairs). Provenance : German bookseller's small ticket on endaper -- very small manuscript shelf mark on verso of last leaf. FIRST EDITION, IN THE RARE DUST-JACKET. BLOSSFELDT'S MASTERPIECE, highlighting the relationship between nature and art, is 'ONE OF THE MOST STRIKING BOOKS IN PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY, AS WELL AS ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR' ( The Photobook ). 101 Books , pp.48-9 ('immensely popular... austerely elegant'); Fotografia Publica , p.59; The Open Book , pp.66-7; The Photobook , p.96 ('striking and beguiling').
KARL BLOSSFELDT Urformen der Kunst -- Archetypal Forms in Art . Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, 1928. 4° (312 x 244mm). 120 black and white photographs. Original green cloth, spine and front cover blocked in gilt, original photo-illustrated dust-jacket (soiling on endpapers, dust-jacket extremities with small repairs). Provenance : German bookseller's small ticket on endaper -- very small manuscript shelf mark on verso of last leaf. FIRST EDITION, IN THE RARE DUST-JACKET. BLOSSFELDT'S MASTERPIECE, highlighting the relationship between nature and art, is 'ONE OF THE MOST STRIKING BOOKS IN PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY, AS WELL AS ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR' ( The Photobook ). 101 Books , pp.48-9 ('immensely popular... austerely elegant'); Fotografia Publica , p.59; The Open Book , pp.66-7; The Photobook , p.96 ('striking and beguiling').
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