60 Fotos herausgegeben von Franz Roh. 60 photos edited by Franz Roh. 60 photographies publiées par Franz Roh. Fototek 1.
Stock Code 111545
Berlin, Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1930
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Presentation copy. The first monograph of Moholy-Nagy's photographs, presentation copy inscribed: 'für herr sandels mit / besten gruss[?] / Moholy-Nagy / 25/XI/37'. Moholy-Nagy was appointed director of The New Bauhaus: American School of Design in Chicago, with classes beginning in October 1937, on the recommendation of Walter Gropius, who had just accepted a position at Harvard. Moholy-Nagy had spent the previous two years in London and the year before that in Amsterdam after leaving Berlin in 1933.
First edition, presentation copy inscribed by Moholy-Nagy on the first page; 8vo (249 x 175 mm, 9¾ x 7 in); black-and-white photographs printed in relief halftone by F. Bruckmann AG, Munich, text in German, English, and French, design by Jan Tschichold, foxing and toning to preliminary and end pages; photo-illustrated wrappers printed in yellow and black, spine toned with wear and loss to head, foot, and middle, chip to lower side at head, lower wrapper split, small label to verso of upper wrapper; 11, [60], [5]pp.
Regards sur un siècle de photographie à travers Le Livre 33; Fotografia Pública: Photography in Print 1919-1939 585, p243; 802 photo books from the M+M Auer Collection p158; Autopsie: Deutschsprachige Fotobücher 1918-1945 II, pp332-43.
First edition, presentation copy inscribed by Moholy-Nagy on the first page; 8vo (249 x 175 mm, 9¾ x 7 in); black-and-white photographs printed in relief halftone by F. Bruckmann AG, Munich, text in German, English, and French, design by Jan Tschichold, foxing and toning to preliminary and end pages; photo-illustrated wrappers printed in yellow and black, spine toned with wear and loss to head, foot, and middle, chip to lower side at head, lower wrapper split, small label to verso of upper wrapper; 11, [60], [5]pp.
Regards sur un siècle de photographie à travers Le Livre 33; Fotografia Pública: Photography in Print 1919-1939 585, p243; 802 photo books from the M+M Auer Collection p158; Autopsie: Deutschsprachige Fotobücher 1918-1945 II, pp332-43.
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