...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
donderdag 16 oktober 2008
La Russie au Travail the Land without Unemployment Ernst Glaeser Photography
LA RUSSIE AU TRAVAIL ( THE LAND WITHOUT UNEMPLOYMENT ) ERNST GLAESER and F.C. Weiskopf - Paris: Flammarion, c. 1930. First Edition. Octavo. 265 images of Russia: a fine example of the industrial documentary style that dominated European photobooks of the 30s. See Parr I ...
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