Book# 35541

Moï Ver (Pseud f. Raviv-Vorobeichic, Moshe)

Paris. 80 Photographies de Moï Ver. Introduction Fernand Léger.

Ort   Paris
Verlag   Éditions Jeanne Walter
Jahr   1931
Auflage   first edition, 100 numbered copies
Einband   photo-pictorial stiff wrappers
Illustration, Ausstattung   ill.
Medium   Buch

 

Beautifully illustrated with collotype reproductions of Moï Ver's photographs, photomontages, superimpositions and collages. A scarce title and modernist masterpiece, "Paris" is a visual tour-de-force that relies on cinematic rhythms and sequencing to lyrically evoke the City of Light. Moï Ver''s kinetic, seemingly multi-dimensional photocollages depict fashionably-dressed citizens alongside local laborers set against the background of city streets. Bereft of any text but Léger's brief introduction, its mis-en-scene conveys the exciting texture of sophisticated urban life in the pre-World War II years.
Auct. Swann Photographic Litertaure & Photographs, sale 2166, lot 175, New York, NY, 12 Dec. 2008, estimate: 14.000-18.000 $ (lightly soiled; text block detached).
Photographie France, Frankreich Stadtansichten, Paris Monographie 20.Jahrh. Léger, Fernand 

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