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Quarto (9¾" x 12½"). Full cloth over boards, with three 35mm contact sheet strips lettered "Querschnitt" mounted on front cover. Contains approximately 195 gelatin silver photographs neatly corner-mounted on the rectos and versos of thick paper leaves. With a pen & ink pictorial title page: "Serien" and other ink sketches, hand drawn borders (in ink on the sheet) and German and English captions neatly written in ink throughout the album. The boards are rubbed and worn at the head and tail of spine and the edges of the boards, two prints appear to be missing or removed, very good or better. A remarkable album compiled and designed by a talented Jewish amateur photographer from Magdeburg, Germany. The album is divided into three "cross-sections", each with a separate title page: "Serien"; "Reportagen"; "This and That/Dies und Das". It contains a wide variety of compelling, sometimes enigmatic photographs, several with handwritten commentary and captions. The first section includes several vernacular images presumably taken at Magdeburg: of shoppers at an apple market, couples on a picnic, a group of child spectators, a young boy and a young girl, each individually posed, respectively, in front of a baroque iron door and motor car. Also included are images of a traffic accident and canal boat disaster. The second section includes an image of the *Hindenburg* in flight, together with several images of Hitler's celebrated *Reichsautobahn*, the Elbe River in winter, and a town square featuring a Hitler Youth banner: "festspielwoche hitler-Jugend" along with a locomotive railway, including workmen laying rails. The third section features a wide variety of images: including various photographers taking pictures, street scenes of Magdeburg and various other cities (including New York), baroque iron gates and doors, various natural geometric patterns and still life photographs, self-portraits, various animals and poultry, commercial advertising images, Nazi Government issued coins and stamps, and images of the "Olympia at Berlin" from 1936-38, including the Olympic Tower and a nighttime view of the theater showing "The first performance" of Leni Riefenstahl's "Olympic Film" in May 1938. Also included are enigmatic images of the unoccupied medical examination rooms of a Jewish doctor: Dr. Kurt Karger, a leading specialist in internal medicine and radiologist at Magdeburg. The photographs were likely taken after Karger lost his license to practice medicine on September 30, 1938. Allowed only to treat Jewish patients, he eventually fled to Mexico in 1940. An unusual album with many provocative images, documenting a Jewish photographer's final days in Nazi Germany. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 538680
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