RECOMMENDED: Photographie 1940 (Magazine) / 1939 📷 🇫🇷

Photographie 1940 by André Lejard, Robert Auvillain

 "Photographie" was an annual special issue of the magazine "Arts et Métiers Graphiques" entirely dedicated to modern photography, and which published the work of the leading photographers and photographic agencies of the period.

„Lejard, André; Robert Auvillain (Text by); Gisèle Freund; Herbert List; Ilse Steinhoff; Marcel Gautherot; Denise Bellon; Erwin Blumenfeld; Louise Dahl-Wolfe; Bill Brandt; Brassai; Jan Lukas; Rolf Tietgens; Ylla; George Platt Lynes; Marcel Bovis; Ergy Landau; Heinrich Heidersberger; Willy Maywald; Philippe Pottier; Pierre Ichac; Philippe Halsman; Laure Albin-Guillot; Florence Henri, et al. (Photographs by)

Paris: "Arts et Métiers Graphiques" 1939. First edition. Softcover. Folio (12 1/4 x 10"). [10]pp (Text), 90pp (Plates), [22]pp (Photos, text and advertisement). Original spiral bound decorative wrappers by Pierre Boucher.

"Photographie" was an annual special issue of the magazine "Arts et Métiers Graphiques" entirely dedicated to modern photography, and which published the work of the leading photographers and photographic agencies of the period.

This 1940 edition contains 90 striking photographs reproduced in heliogravure, and taken by the following photographers: Herbert List; Ilse Steinhoff; Marcel Gautherot; Denise Bellon; Erwin Blumenfeld; Louise Dahl-Wolfe; Bill Brandt; Brassai; Jan Lukas; Rolf Tietgens; Ylla; George Platt Lynes; Marcel Bovis; Ergy Landau; Heinrich Heidersberger; Willy Maywald; Philippe Pottier; Pierre Ichac; Philippe Halsman; Laure Albin-Guillot; Florence Henri, and many others.

Includes a striking color photographic portrait of Colette in trichromy, by Gisèle Freund.” - www.klinebooks.com
 

 

„PHOTOGRAPHIE published the work of the leading photographers of the period, as well as the work of successful commercial agencies. Many of the articles are illustrated with documentary photographs and film stills.

In 1925, the critic, poet, and one of the founders of Surrealism, Andre Breton, posed the question: when would 'all the books that are worth anything stop being illustrated with drawings and appear only with photographs?¹ A few short years after this statement, the photographic image had established itself as one of the most provocative, poetic, and radical forms of representation in modern society. A plethora of groundbreaking exhibitions, books and publicity, the work of some of the most influential figures in history of photography, ushered in the creative flowering of the medium across Europe. Unquestionably the increasingly effective presence of photography was tied to the emergence of these new recruits and their passionate conviction regarding its creative worth. It was out of this hotbed of revolution in the photographic form, that one of the most influential photographic annuals of the 20th century was published in Paris on the 15 March 1930. Photographie began life as a one off special issue of the graphic arts bimonthly magazine Arts et Metiers Graphiques (No 16). [Kerry William Purcell]”

- Randall Ross + Molly McCombs

1939. first edition. softcover.

 

 

 

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