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= Photographic diaries of travels in 7 different parts of India.
= Parr/ Badger III, p.100: "There is a succession of photographers who have photographed the hedonistic lifestyle (...) but Dash Snow did it with the most panache. This is perhaps because he actually lived the life to the full. Most photographers who capture the sex and drugs scene maintain a certain distance. They have to, or the work suffers. But Snow's art was his life, to a unique extent. Born into a wealthy family he kicked his background in the teeth, becoming the black sheep of the family. Snow tragically died of a drugs overdose in 2009, at the age of twenty-seven".
= Parr/ Badger III, p.100: "There is a succession of photographers who have photographed the hedonistic lifestyle (...) but Dash Snow did it with the most panache. This is perhaps because he actually lived the life to the full. Most photographers who capture the sex and drugs scene maintain a certain distance. They have to, or the work suffers. But Snow's art was his life, to a unique extent. Born into a wealthy family he kicked his background in the teeth, becoming the black sheep of the family. Snow tragically died of a drugs overdose in 2009, at the age of twenty-seven".
- Wrappers sl. worn along extremities. = Cf. Parr/ Badger I, p.244.
Idem. Wij zijn 17. Introd. S. Carmiggelt. Bussum, C.A.J. van Dishoeck, n.d. (±1960), 4th ed., no pagination, photogr. plates and orig. wr. by J. VAN DER KEUKEN.
- Wrappers trifle worn. = Parr/ Badger I, p.244 (1st ed., 1955).
AND 6 others by/ on the same, i.a. Paris mortel. Retouché (Amst., 2013, num. full-p. ills., orig. wr. w. dustwr., 4to); Quatorze Juillet (ibid., 2010, num. full-p. ills., orig. wr. w. dustwr., 4to) and Bewogen beelden (Breda, 2001, num. col. ills., orig. boards. w. dustwr., obl. 4to).
= On the art project by Ian Berry, who created a very large portrait of legendary Formula 1-race driver Ayrton Senna out of denim, donated by family members of Senna.
- Hinges weak; endpapers yellowed. Spine sunned.
= Parr/ Badger II, p.215: "A superb, if forlorn, collection of documentary photographs of Jewish life in Eastern Europe." A rare early post-war portrayal of the Jewish communities in East-Europe within the context that they were destroyed.
- Owner's entry on first free endpaper; occas. sl. foxed. Corners showing.
= Schaubücher 27. Parr/ Badger I, p.130: "In the same year that his Paris was published, Moï Ver - under his real name of Moshé Vorobeichic - produced Ein Ghetto im Osten (...). Once again, he used a variety of New Vision strategies, the most obvious being to take many images from upstairs windows looking on to the narrow streets of Vilnius's old Jewish quarter. (...) He also introduced cinematic cutting and montaging techniques to heighten the interest. He combined elements of imagery, sometimes by double-printing negatives, sometimes by repeating identical or similar pictures, sometimes by pasting different photographs together, often with self-conscious free-form edges".
- Wrappers yellowed.
= Parr/ Badger p.229: "Despite the difficulties of taking photographs in such a tense and difficult situation [the military coup of 1973 in Chili], Wessing never forgets the value of composition and lighting control. The main thrust of the book is the coup's immediate aftermath, the shock and grief of the people, the rounding up of Allende's supporters (or suspected supporters) by the army, and their herding into the now notorious National Stadium in Santiago, where many would be tortured and killed. Wessing vividly captures one of these executions, in a two-page squence that forms the book's climax."
= SIGNED by the author.
AND 1 similar by the same: Promise me something (ibid., 2002, num. full-p. photogr. ills., orig. pict. boards. SIGNED)
- Dustwr. trifle frayed.
- Binding sl. stained and rubbed. = Employee magazine of De Bijenkorf.
- One leaf w. tear; occas. trifle foxed. Dustwr. sl. frayed. = Rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXIV.
- Frontwr. of no.1 w. tiny marginal tear.
= Interesting magazine, edited by L.J. Jordaan, G.H. Knap and H. Scholte. Maan, Paul Schuitema visual organiser: "The Rotterdam Filmliga occupied an important place in the cultural life of the city around 1930. The Dutch Film Liga had been set up in 1927 as a result of the ban on showing the Russian film The Mother by the Russian avant-garde filmmaker Pudovkin in public. The Dutch filmmaker Joris Ivens therefore ran the film at three private showings in Amsterdam. A month later, the Amsterdam Filmliga was an accomplished fact."
AND 1 other w. orig. photomontage wr. by C. OORTHUYS: Het ontwaken van Azië (Amst., 1932, ills., sm. 4to).
- Dustwr. laid down on silver paper/ frayed/ sl. chipped. = Kerssemakers 2147.
AND 3 others w. photogr./ photomontage (dust)wr. by the same: K. PLÄTNER, Eros im Zuchthaus (Berlin, 1929. Backwr. loose); Sinclair, U., Jimmie Higgins (Berlin, n.d. (1928)); M. Gorki, Die Mutter (Berlin, 1927. Dustwr. lacks tiny part). Herzfelde, W. John Heartfield. Leben und Werk, dargestellt von seinem Bruder. Dresden, VEB, 1962, 3rd ed., 385(3)p., num. (col.) ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr. by JOHN HEARTFIELD, 4to. - AND an issue of Lilliputt with an article on Heartfield's photomontage: A Master of political art (1939, 464-472p., ills., orig. wr.).
- Contents occas. sl. foxed. Wrappers loosening; trifle frayed and w. vague oblique fold.
= Very rare.
- Upper joint and spine strengthened w. sellotape; bookblock sl. warped; wr. sl. stained.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXIV.
- Occas. w. (sm.) defects.
= I.a. for H.J. van Braambeek, Lichten en schichten (n.pl., 1936, unidentified designer, 4to); H.R. Knickerbocker, De roode handel dreigt! (Leyden, 1932, des. by H.JR.); H.C. Pieck, Zwart en wit uit het roode Rusland (Amst., 1930, unidentified designer, 4to) and J. Brouwer, Spanje (Rott., 1939, des. by F. DUPONT).
ADDED: ±85 others, for the largest part orig. book covers (mainly) designed by Dick Bruna (1955-1975, limp boards, part of the series Zwarte Beertjes, a few photomontage designs).
- Generally in good condition; some usual defects. = Rare collection of fine early photomontage.
- Some sl. foxing in blank margins. Spine of slipcase sl. rubbed and stained.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXV.
- Spine trifle browned; slipcase w. a few foxed spots.