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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Printing. Quarter bound in publisher's black cloth over gray boards, gilt lettering on spine and cover. Illustrated with approximately 150 photographs taken during the winter of 1944-1945 by leading members of the Underground Camera group, including Dutch greats Cas Oorthuys and Emmy Andriese, as well as Ad Windig, Charles Breyer, Krun Taconis, and others. What emerges from this book - beyond the harrowing wartime shots of starvation and destruction - are the beginnings in photo literature of a new way of seeing the world. Forced by necessity to shoot under the most extreme conditions, the photographers are formulating a new aesthetic forged from the immediacy of circumstance. [Parr / Badger, v1, 196]. . The volume is in very good shape, tight and square, with some offsetting. Many pages have typed captions, in English, taped on to blank spaces in the margins, explaining the photographs, clearly prepared by one who witnessed the events depicted. The unclipped dust jacket, now in Mylar, is faded, with several closed tears and some loss at the head and heel. VERY GOOD/VERY GOOD. . B&W Photographs. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Unpaginated pp. Illustrated by Cas Oorthuts, Emmy Andriese, Ad Windig, et al. (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Photos taken surreptitiously by underground photographers in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation of the City in 1944. The book is fair only w/ wear at extremities, both hinges starting (repairable)and pencil translation of some of the photo captions. Of much additional interest are laid in items .A 4 page newspaper .S.H.A.E.F. of 26 Mai 1945, intended for displace peoples, the "parachute edition" in four languages, a 2 page "Diamond Dust," published by the 5th Infantry Division dated 4 April 1945, then a 2 page "Frontpost" of April '44, a german language leaflet reporting the state of the war which would have been dropped from planes over the German lines and last, a 1944 Fort Benning Explosive Reference Sheet depicting methods for blowing up railroad rails and bridge supports, pit props and other uses. To access more of our photography or war books, search using keyword FOTOBX or WARBX. Language: eng.…