Albert Renger-Patzch Photographer of Objectivity Tapa dura - 1997

The MIT Press. hardcover. Very Good. 9x1x12. Unmarked hardcover in unclipped jacket now protected by archival cover.

Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1997. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 176 pages. Albert Renger-Patzsch, together with August Sander and Karl Blossfeldt, was one of the undisputed pioneers of twentieth-century German photography. Indeed, what Sander achieved in portrait photography and Blossfeldt in plant photography, Renger-Patzsch achieved in his renderings of objects and the material world. As a protagonist of the movement that came to be known as Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity), he wanted to record, phenomenologically as it were, the exact appearance of objects -- their form, material, and surface. Thus he rejected any kind of artistic claim for himself. Believing that the photographer should strive to capture the "essence of the object," he called for documentation rather than art. Record # 362780

Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1998. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 176 pages, Folio. Missing dust-jacket. Shelfwear: light scuffing along edges and covers, light tanning along page edges. Tight binding, no marks. Volume is in Very Good condition..

The MIT Press, 1997-12-29. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

The MIT Press, 1997-12-29. hardcover. New. 9x1x12. The MIT Press, 1997. Hard cover, first edition. Fine condition in Fine dust jacket; this is a new book still in shrinkwrap.