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Description: KARL BLOSSFELDT Urformen der Kunst -- Archetypal Forms in Art . Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, 1928. Quarto (312 x 244mm). 120 black and white photographs. Original green cloth, spine and front cover blocked in gilt, original photo-illustrated dust-jacket (spotting on endpapers, dust-jacket with tears and small loss, some soiling, back panel with light spotting and light damp stain). Provenance : contemporary collector's bookplate, and small shelf-ticket. Second edition, published the year after the first, IN THE RARE DUST-JACKET. BLOSSFELDT'S MASTERPIECE, highlighting the relationship between nature and art, is 'ONE OF THE MOST STRIKING BOOKS IN PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY, AS WELL AS ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR' ( The Photobook ). Cf. 101 Books , pp.48-9 ('immensely popular... austerely elegant'); Fotografia Publica , p.59; The Open Book , pp.66-7; The Photobook , p.96 ('striking and beguiling').

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