60 Fotos...

£2,750 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

with the publisher's scarce wraparound band The first monograph of Aenne Biermann's photographs, with the publisher's scarce wraparound band, which exists in three versions: German, French, and English. This book was supposed to be a part of a much larger series of books titled Fototek, but only the first two were published due to the economic and political circumstances in Germany at the time. The first volume, also titled 60 Fotos, is devoted to Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, with future unrealized titles announced at the rear, to include 'The Monsterous - Kitsch in Photography'; 'Photomontage edited by Jan Tschichold'; 'The Police Photograph'; 'El Lissitsky 60 Fotos and Typofotos'; 'The Sport Photograph'; and '100 years of Nude Photography', a note also states that several others were being planned. The series was edited by Franz Roh and designed by Jan Tschichold. Roh and Tschichold had previously collaborated on Foto-Auge (1929), the book issued to accompany the Film und Foto exhibition in Stuttgart. Sales of the two Fototek volumes were sluggish, and the financial difficulties that Klinkhardt Biermann encountered due to the economic crisis led to the sale of the publishing house. In March 1932, Franz Roh wrote to the photographer Moi Ver that he still hoped to be able to include his work in a later volume of the Fototek series but that negotiations with the new owners were ongoing. The following March, he again wrote to Moi Ver, stating that he hoped to continue the series with an

• Binding: Hardcover

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