Dec 09, 2010 - Sale 2233

Sale 2233 - Lot 312

Price Realized: $ 1,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
RICHTER, HANS.
Filmgegner von Heute-Filmfreunde Morgen [Enemy of Film Today-Friend of Film Tomorrow].

A rare and influential title documenting Surrealism and Dadaism in film and photography, illustrated with reproductions of photographs and film stills by a variety of important figures, including Léger, Man Ray, Renoir and Richter himself. Tall 8vo, blue-printed red cloth; black-and-white photo-pictorial dust jacket, lightly worn with small areas of loss near the corners. Hasselblad 80; Auer 135. first edition.
Berlin: Verlag Hermann Reckendorf, 1929

Additional Details

Both this title and Werner Graeff''s Es Kommt der Neue Fotograf were published in conjunction with the Film und Foto exhibition organized by the Deutsche Werkbund, in Stuttgart. Richter was in charge of the film program during this important exhibition.