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For out-of-print book 'Ghana. An African Portrait', Paul STRAND collected and found motifs - landscapes, architecture, portraits, street scenes - that were suitable for documenting the transition to modernization of Ghana, who had declared as independent.

This monograph provides an excellent view of the work of the US-American photographer Berenice ABBOTT, who not only made Eugène ATGET's work about Paris world-famous, but also pursued her own project about changing New York and did science photography.

This 5 volume project that present hundreds of outstanding ABBOTT images for the first time. These previously unknown images further clarified the range of her photographic activity beyond her 'Paris Portraits', 'Changing New York' & 'Documenting Science'

New Ed., HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24,5 x 31,5 x 2,5 cm., 200 pp., 128 duotone b/w ills., bilingual texts: German / English

The photo volume 'Paris Portraits. 1925-1930' features the clear, honest results of the earliest photographic endeavor of the prominent US-american photographer Berenice ABBOTT’, which illustrates the philosophy that shaped all of her subsequent work.

'Paul Strand. Southwest' reconstructs a previously largely unexplored period of his distinguished career through b&w photographs shown for the first time, including dramatic landscapes and decaying ghost towns, as well as a collection of notes & ephemera.

The book 'Berenice Abbott. Portraits der Moderne' gives selected works and explanatory essays on the three major groups of works - portraits, cityscapes, natural science.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 30 x 24 x 3,5 cm., 336 pp., 361 b/w ills., text language: English

Catalog for the exhibition in the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin with ABBOTT's famous iconic images from the 'Changing New York' series, early portraits and pioneering work as a science photographer, thus providing an insight into the work of a great artist

by Hans-Michael Koetzle. Hardcover in slipcase, 25,5 x 30 x 12 cm., 512 pp. - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!