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Photo-Eye Fritz Block: New Photography 1928-1938 - Modern Color Slides
Roland Jaeger
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Description for Photo-Eye Fritz Block: New Photography 1928-1938 - Modern Color Slides
Hardback. The first monograph on Fritz Block's photographic work, featuring previously unpublished material from Block's estate and covering the entire range of his photography. Num Pages: 320 pages, 60 colour, 300 b&w. BIC Classification: AJB; AJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 120. .
Fritz Block (1889-1955) was one of the most dedicated proponents of Germany's postwar New Building movement. From 1929, he also used the medium of photography to express the impulse of modernism along the ideals of New Objectivity and New Vision, travelling as a photojournalist to Paris, Marseille, and North Africa, as well as in 1931 to the United States. Being of Jewish origin, Block was banned from working as an architect and publishing his photographs in Germany by the Nazis in 1933. He subsequently turned entirely to photography on extensive trips abroad, and eventually emigrated to America in 1938. After ... Read more
Fritz Block (1889-1955) was one of the most dedicated proponents of Germany's postwar New Building movement. From 1929, he also used the medium of photography to express the impulse of modernism along the ideals of New Objectivity and New Vision, travelling as a photojournalist to Paris, Marseille, and North Africa, as well as in 1931 to the United States. Being of Jewish origin, Block was banned from working as an architect and publishing his photographs in Germany by the Nazis in 1933. He subsequently turned entirely to photography on extensive trips abroad, and eventually emigrated to America in 1938. After ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Zurich, Switzerland
ISBN
9783858817891
SKU
V9783858817891
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Ref
99-15
About Roland Jaeger
Roland Jaeger lives and works as a scholar of history of art, architecture, and photography in Hamburg und Berlin. He has published widely on 20th-century art and photography, including a monograph on Fritz Block as an architect (1996).
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