Jan Tchichold (1 results)

First edition, first printing, published to accompany the Deutscher Werkbund exhibition of avant-garde photography "Film und Foto", which started in Stuttgart in 1929. The text is in German, French, and English. The Association of German Book Artists voted this publication as the most beautiful book of the year 1929. Parr & Badger vol. 1, p. 98. Quarto. 76 full page black and white photographs from various artists including Eugène Aigat, Andreas Feininger, El Lissitsky, George Grosz & John Heartfield, Man Ray, Max Ernst, Brett Weston, Lászió Moholy-Nagy, Edward Weston and others. Stapled wrappers designed by Jan Tschichold, with a self portrait photograph by El Lissitzky to front cover, titles to front cover blind stamped, titles to spine in black and white on a red ground. Red to spine slightly faded otherwise a lovely copy.…