INSCRIBED Martin Munkacsi Nudes Women Gravure Photographs 1st ED 1951 HC DJ

Description: Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Martin Munkacsi Nudes INSCRIBED Martin Munkacsi Nudes. Photographs by Martin Munkacsi. Introduction by John Rawlings. Cover design by Alexey Brodovitch. Greenberg Publisher, New York, 1951. 80 pages. Quarto. Hardcover. Clothbound in photo-illustrated dust jacket. Black-and-white reproductions. Illustrated with 77 leaves with monochrome photographs of female nudes, including several double page spreads. Inscribed by Martin Munkacsi on the first free endpaper. Very good in a good dust jacket. In his day, the Hungarian Martin Munkacsi (1896-1963) was one of the most famous photographers in the world. His dynamic photographs of sports, entertainers, politics, and street life in Germany and Hungary from the late 1920s and 1930s, were taken in a new, freewheeling style that captured the speed and movement of the modern era. Many of those early photographs were published in German photo weeklies, where Munkacsi made his reputation doing reportage, often from exotic locales. In 1933, Munkacsi turned his energetic style to fashion photography, making images of models running on the beach. Those pictures revolutionized fashion photography with their informality and vitality. Soon after he was offered a contract by Carmel Snow, the editor of Harper's Bazaar, and he left for New York, where he made his fame and fortune. Very good in a good dust jacket. The boards are remarkably clean and bright. Internally, the binding is tight and hinges sound. Patches of tanning to the first free endpaper. Beautiful images printed in gorgeous gravure. There are chips and tears to the dust jacket. Several taped repairs. Few soil spots and stains. Newspaper clipping laid in. The inscription by Munkacsi reads To my almost intellectual frau. This book was bought by another collector who found it at an estate sale in the home of Munkasci’s daughter, Joan Munkasci who was 15 years old at the time of his passing. This inscription was personally examined by me and is consistent with the characteristics of the exemplars in my personal library as well as online. In my opinion, as a collector with 45 years of experience, this inscription is genuine and meets the standards of flow, slant, pen pressure and letter sizing of the examples I have on file and is the writing of Martin Munkacsi. A genuine collectible. Inscribed Martin Munkacsi

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