Description: SALE!! Super RARE!!! Unique!!! Moi Ver - PARIS, Condition: Brand New!!!! Collectible Copy!!!!! Introduction by Fernand Léger 46 pages Softcover 22.1 x 29.3 cm French First Edition 11/2004 Steidl Limited Edition The book is packed in original parchment paper with a numbered sticker!!! One of the most important (and rarest) photobooks in the history of the medium, Moï Ver’s Paris, first published in 1931 by Éditions Jeanne Walter, was avant-garde in its layered photos of the city’s streets and industry, not to mention its graphic layout. Yet tragedy soon struck: 95% of production was destroyed by a flood of the Seine with only around 40 books surviving, of which the publisher’s archival copy found its way into Karl Lagerfeld’s private collection. This exceptional copy was scanned for the painstaking 2004 facsimile re-print of Paris, published by Edition 7L and produced by Steidl in a limited print-run of 1,000 copies. Gerhard Steidl’s challenge was to recreate the gravure printing of the original book in offset technology, a process for which he registered a patent and experimented for over three years. To ensure the longevity of printing and binding quality, Steidl produced at the time a “pilot series” of books, identical to the long since sold-out run of 1,000 copies. this copy of a facsimile claimed by the New York Times to be so close to the original, that future generations would not be able to differentiate them. Moï Ver Moï Ver (Moshé Raviv-Vorobeichic) was born in 1904 in Vilnius, Lithuania, where he also studied painting. In 1927, he stayed at the Bauhaus in Dessau to take courses with Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, and Joseph Albers, before he left for Paris to study at the Ecole de Photo Ciné. After several unrealized projects of photographic books, necessity led him to begin a career as a reporter. He immigrated to Palestine in 1934, and from 1950 on, he devoted himself to painting. He died in 1995. Sale as is, No return. Edward Weston Daido Moriyama Araki Josef Koudelka Saul Leiter Ray K Metzker Paolo Roversi Helmut Newton, Henri Cartier-Bresson Ernst Haas Harry Gruyaert Annie Leibovitz Peter Lindbergh Guy Bourdin Richard Avedon Herb Ritts, Ellen Von Unwerth Comme des Garçons Rei Kawakubo Irving Penn, Bruce Weber, Edward Steichen, George Hoyningen-Huene, Hiro, Erwin Blumenfeld Bruce Weber, Alex Webb Robert Frank Issey Miyake Robert Doisneau Steve Hiett Gueorgui Pinkhassov Andy Warhol Yayoi Kusama Magnum photos Harry Callahan Man Ray Andre Kertesz Elliott Erwitt Bruce Davidson Guy Bourdin Steven Meisel, Martin Munkacsi Mario Giacomelli Bruce Gilden Sebastiao Salgado
Price: 449 USD
Location: New York, New York
End Time: 2024-11-24T22:04:10.000Z
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Type: Art
Year of Production: 2004
Photographer: Moi Ver
Features: Limited Edition
Subject: Paris
