Es kommt der neue Fotograf (The Advent of the New Photographer)
Berlin: Hermann Reckendorf, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 126 (1)pp. Original orange cloth with blue lettering on cover and spine. Black endpapers. An extraordinary compendium of 148 b/w photographs by photographers of the New Vision Photography, a movement emerging in the 1920s emphasizing photography as an autonomous artistic practice relating directly to the principles of the Bauhaus. "Es kommt der neue Fotograf" was published around the famous exhibition "Film und Foto" in Stuttgart, 1929, along with Roh and Tschichold's Foto-Auge. Both publications adopt what came to be known as "picture-essay format." Gräff's publications, however, "has as much of a practical as a theoretical slant. It can be considered as a 'how-to' compendium of the new photography, and is divided into sections, each several pages long, showing either formal strategies like tilting the frame or repeating similar elements, close-ups and so on, or genres such as photograms, montage, advertising and magazine photography." (The Photobook). Text in German. Front cover lightly bent. Some foxing on half-title, minimal on title page as well as last pagesat rear. Some faint age-toning visible along edges but not affecting images. Binding and interior in overall very good condition. Very good condition. Item #49610
Price: $500.00