...a photoBook is an autonomous art form, comparable with a piece of sculpture, a play or a film. The photographs lose their own photographic character as things 'in themselves' and become parts, translated into printing ink, of a dramatic event called a book...
- Dutch photography critic Ralph Prins
zaterdag 12 juli 2008
Rotterdam Lloyd Baloeran Dempo Sibajak Indrapoera Johan von Stein Graphic Design Photography
Softcover Rotterdam, R.L. nd.[c. 1935]. large 8 . orig. lettered & pict. stiff wraps, printed in 2 colours (black and white), orig. very thin paper dustjacket preserved. String through spine, recte of upper-wrap silver-coloured with white lettering. Title-p. printed in 2 colours (blue & white), with on left part track-map with legenda in black & blue with white lettering. Introd. on 2 L.l. with a beautiful illustration in centre-fold., 5 Ll. with short text descr. 4 passenger-ships of the company with large illustrations of the ships and their interiors on opp. page, folding-out, with more general information on last 2 L.l. A stunning piece of advertising-art, describing four major passenger-ships of company"s fleet, the Ms.s. "Baloeran, Dempo, Sibajak and Indrapoera". Graphic design by Johan von Stein. See also the Dutch Poster Museum...
...Photography is the visual medium of the modern world. As a means of recording, and as an art form in its own, it pervades our lives and shapes our perceptions...
Softcover Rotterdam, R.L. nd.[c. 1935]. large 8 . orig. lettered & pict. stiff wraps, printed in 2 colours (black and white), orig. very thin paper dustjacket preserved. String through spine, recte of upper-wrap silver-coloured with white lettering. Title-p. printed in 2 colours (blue & white), with on left part track-map with legenda in black & blue with white lettering. Introd. on 2 L.l. with a beautiful illustration in centre-fold., 5 Ll. with short text descr. 4 passenger-ships of the company with large illustrations of the ships and their interiors on opp. page, folding-out, with more general information on last 2 L.l. A stunning piece of advertising-art, describing four major passenger-ships of 
company"s fleet, the Ms.s. "Baloeran, Dempo, Sibajak and Indrapoera". Graphic design by Johan von Stein. See also the Dutch Poster Museum ...
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