About this title: In 1945, already known as a photographer of refined images verging on the abstract, Werner Bischof made his way by bicycle through war-torn Germany, documenting signs of human life emerging from the rubble. In luminous images - of little girls playing tag in the shell of a bombed cathedral, of a young man luxuriating in the sun smoking a cigar - Bischof captured the struggles of ordinary people incrementally resuming their daily lives in a devastated landscape. Two years later, his travels having extended through France, Hungary, Greece, and Italy, Bischof had created an extraordinary ...
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Edition: Book Club Edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Smithsonian Institute Press
Date Published: 1997
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Ex-library. Nice hard cover, lightly read, acetate over dust jacket, library stamps & stickers, first blank page cut out, stk #2618e9. 39 p. Includes illustrations. read more
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. First American edition. Oblong 4to. Illustrated with over 40 b/w photographs. Dust jacket (unclipped). Fine. 48 pages. No signatures or bookplates. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Thames & Hudson, London
Date Published: 1985
Description: In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm. /11in. ], Full Appinean brown cloth with dust jacket, pp. 199 Fully illustrated with b-w halftones. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC
Description: Motta Photography Series. Small coffee stain at bottom left of front dust jacket, else fine. Out of Print. Hardcover book in fine condition, with a near fine dust jacket. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9781560987215ISBN:1560987219
Description: Hardcover. First American Edition, first printing. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. read more
Edition: First English Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Smithsonian, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9781560987215ISBN:1560987219
Description: As New in Fine jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. WE SPECIALIZE IN PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS. 10pp. plus 40 b&w photo plates. From the Motta Photography Series which showcases the work of postwar masters. Bischof, a Magnum photographer captures the struggle of of ordinary people gradually resuming their lives in a devastated landcape. From post war Germany in 1945 to France, Hungary, Greece and Italy in 1946-50. read more
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