Schönheit im Olympischen Kampf Beauty in the Olympic Games
$3,500 · Offered by Manhattan Rare Books
First edition
such exquisite, such transcendentally beautiful images of athletes... FIRST EDITION, in exceptionally fine dust jacket and extremely rare original glassine, of Riefenstahl's classic monument to the athletes of the 1936 Olympics. Profusely illustrated with 273 black-and-white photographs. With the German photographer Leni Riefenstahl, sports imagery rose to new aesthetic heights. Commissioned by Joseph Goebbels, she brought her
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