PARIS

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In Paris, his quintessential avant-garde book, Moï Ver succeeded in blending dynamic photographic montage with elaborate graphic layouts. Utilizing the double-spread as one unified place, each turn of the page not only surprised but accentuated the charged rhythm built into the book itself. The bulk of information in these pictures documents mundane street activities in the cobblestone-covered Paris of the late 20s. But the method in which Moï Ver chose to present his material, in its kaliedoscopic layering and ...
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2003 Wrappers with Slipcase New 80 pp., 80 duotone plates. Still in the publisher's original acetate cover. Paper edition with french folds. Pictorial wraps housed in a grey ... cloth-covered clamshell box with title plate paste-down to the front cover. This facsimile edition was limited to 1, 000 hand-numbered copies reproduced from the original which was published in 1931 by Lithuanian photographer Moshe Vorobeichic, better known as Moi Ver. Read more Show Less

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In Paris, his quintessential avant-garde book, Moï Ver succeeded in blending dynamic photographic montage with elaborate graphic layouts. Utilizing the double-spread as one unified place, each turn of the page not only surprised but accentuated the charged rhythm built into the book itself. The bulk of information in these pictures documents mundane street activities in the cobblestone-covered Paris of the late 20s. But the method in which Moï Ver chose to present his material, in its kaliedoscopic layering and frenzied repetitiveness, emphasized an experiential approach to picture construction--as if we, the viewers, were walking about, bombarded by noise and reflected light. Within each picture, visual data is spliced with pattern, alluding to a lapse of time, as if they were short film vignettes. Originally published in 1931 by Editions' Jeanne Walter with an introduction by artist and Futurist Fernand Léger, now long out of print and exceptionally rare, this facsimile reproduction of Paris brings back into circulation one of the seminal photographic books of the century.
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  • ISBN-13: 9783882438208
  • Publisher: Steidl, Gerhard Druckerei und Verlag
  • Publication date: 10/12/2009
  • Edition description: Boxed Set
  • Pages: 80
  • Product dimensions: 9.20 (w) x 12.20 (h) x 1.20 (d)

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Fernand Leger was born in 1881 in north-western France, the only child of a cattle breeder and his wife. His early training was in architecture and draftsmanship; he began painting seriously upon moving to Paris in 1903. As a young artist, he exhibited regularly at the Salon d'Automne and was part of a circle that included Brancusi, Apollinaire, and the Puteaux group. His public debut as an avant-garde artist occurred in 1911, when one of his paintings was hung in the Cubist room at the Salon des IndEpendants. Leger died in 1955.

Born in 1904 in Vilnius, Lithuania as Moses Vorobeichic, Moi Ver initially studied painting. In his early 20s he matriculated at the Bauhaus, taking courses with Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, and Joseph Albers, and left from there to attend the Ecole Photo CinE in Paris. After producing several unrealized projects for photographic books, necessity led him to begin a career as a reporter. He adopted Zionism in 1934 and immigrated to what was then known as Palestine, returning to painting in 1950. MoshE Raviv-Vorobeichic (as he called himself in Palestine) died in 1995.

Christoph Schifferli, born in Zurich in 1950, is a longtime collector of postwar and contemporary photography and artist's books of the 1960s and 1970s. He started to collect film stills several years ago after buying anonymous still photographs from Fritz Lang's Metropolis.

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