Gotthard Schuh: 50 Photographien

SCHUH, Gotthard (Introduction by Edwin Arnet)

Verlag: Urs Graf Verlag, 1942

Beschreibung

Basel: Urs Graf Verlag, 1942. (10.75 x 8.75 in, 27.5 x 22.3 cm). 64pp. First edition. 50 black and white photographs. Text in German printed on warmer soft paper. Plates follow on coated stock. Original grey cloth spine and white paper covered boards each titled in black (rubbing and soiling with moderate wear to the extremities, lower fore-edge corner of upper panel bumped. Internally clean and fine save for neat previous owner name penciled in red on the ffep, minimal evidence of use. Firmly bound); Original photographically illustrated dust jacket (unclipped, light soiling, dampstained at bottom edge of upper panel, 22mm tear to top edge of lower panel, loss at crown, smaller chips at heel and tips, top of inner flaps creased). This title is discussed in the recent National Gallery of Art's fascinating in depth look at Robert Frank's 'The Americans'. Sarah Greenough writes: "Hailed as a photographer who combined the insights of a photojournalist with the innovations of a modernist / in '50 Photographien' Schuh paired images of subjects, such as street scenes, portraits, and landscapes, that could be effectively rendered by photography with short statements, almost admonitions, advising his readers, for example, to be less interested in technique - "Good photographers have neither secrets nor tricks" - than in careful seeing and quiet observation. / Schuh also writes: "He who cannot empathize with events enough to love them - at least in that moment - will not have the strength to reflect them." (National Gallery of Art, 'Looking In: Robert Frank's 'The Americans', p.13-14, see also Martin Gasser's essay 'Robert Frank and Gotthard Schuh' pp. 140-147) An important and excellent early Gotthard Schuh monograph. Scarce. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 2011630

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Gotthard Schuh: 50 Photographien

Verlag: Urs Graf Verlag

Erscheinungsdatum: 1942

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Near Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good

Auflage: 1st Edition