Die Kunst in der photographie,the German camera work part 1: The publication and its images

Abstract

For some twenty years the author's library has contained six handsome folio volumes, bound in green linen and dark brown half-leather. On the front cover of each there is a stylized rising sun and the title Die Kunst in der Photographie (Art in Photography), both imprinted in gold (Figure 1 ). The large-format photogravures bound into each volume, to accompany some text, have been a source of delight, but facts about this publication have been hard to find. As far as is known, this item has not featured in any photographic auction, and only once has a single volume been offered (for a breath-taking price) in an antiquarian's catalogue. The matter warranted some research.