The Ghetto Lane in Wilna.
65 Pictures by M. Vorobeichic. Preface by S. Chneour. Publisher: Dr. Emil Schaeffer.
Stock Code 106541
Zurich & Leipzig, Orell Fussli Verlag, 1931
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With the scarce dust-jacket. Moï-Ver made the photographs for this, his first book in the Jewish quarter of Vilnius, where he was born and raised. In 1927, he attended classes at the Bauhaus in Dessau before going to Paris to study at the École Technique de Photographie et de Cinematographie. Both his photographs and the layout employ New Vision techniques such as unconventional angles, double-printing, repetition, and montage to create a visually stunning book that documents a way of life that was to be destroyed by Nazi Germany a decade later. This is the most sought-after book in the Orell Füssli's Schaubücher series. It was issued simultaneously in German/Hebrew, English/Hebrew, and German/Yiddish versions.
First edition, English/Hebrew issue; 12mo (189 x 127 mm, 7½ x 5 in); 64 pages of black-and-white photomontages and photographs printed in relief halftone, text in English (left to right) and Hebrew (right to left), stamped 'Printed in Switzerland' opposite title-page; plain endpapers, quarter orange cloth, photo-illustrated paper-covered boards printed in black and orange, titles stamped in black on spine, light wear to extremities, slightly bowed, publisher's plastic dust-jacket, shrunken and chipped as usual, near-fine in the sarce dust-jacket; 7, [1], [64], 6, [2]pp.
[German/Hebrew issue] Regards à travers Le Livre 46; The Photobook: A History I, p130; Auer Collection p168.
First edition, English/Hebrew issue; 12mo (189 x 127 mm, 7½ x 5 in); 64 pages of black-and-white photomontages and photographs printed in relief halftone, text in English (left to right) and Hebrew (right to left), stamped 'Printed in Switzerland' opposite title-page; plain endpapers, quarter orange cloth, photo-illustrated paper-covered boards printed in black and orange, titles stamped in black on spine, light wear to extremities, slightly bowed, publisher's plastic dust-jacket, shrunken and chipped as usual, near-fine in the sarce dust-jacket; 7, [1], [64], 6, [2]pp.
[German/Hebrew issue] Regards à travers Le Livre 46; The Photobook: A History I, p130; Auer Collection p168.
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