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This extremely scarce special issue DOK 50 Heft 3: Sondernummer Film und Kultur. 3, was published on the occasion of the International Film Club Conference in 1950 and features articles by André Malraux, Pudowkin, René Barjavel, Joseph Rovan, Jean Giraudoux, André Bazin, Jean Cocteau, Raymond Queneau, Maurice Jaubert, Jean-Georges Auriol, Henri Colpi, Hans Wollenberg, Le Veugle, Buddy Schulberg, Henri Jeanson and Chris Marker.In the stimulating intellectual climate of postwar France, numerous independent associations for popular education arose immediately after the Libération. One of them was the group Peuple et Culture, of which Joseph Rovan served as one of their directors.
In 1946, Rovan was invited by the French military administration to participate in the reconstruction of the German cultural sector. For this purpose, he initiated several Franco-German seminars in Germany, presenting not only literature and theater, but also films. André Bazin, then head of the film department of Travail… Leer más

Leipzig: Verlag Ernst Wunderlich, 1948. First edition. 4to (29,5x21cm), illustrated card wrappers. Unpaginated 20pp. Text in German. Wrappers show some discoloration and minor soiling. Three small dents on cover. Spine-ends slightly brittle. Pages are toned, but content is clean and unmarked. Overall, in very good condition.
Die Geschichten von Jan und Jon und von ihrem Lotsen-Fisch is a significant postwar children's book by Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp, one of the first women to study at the Bauhaus. Under the guidance of renowned figures like Johannes Itten, Paul Klee, and Wassily Kandinsky, she defied boundaries by concentrating on decorative and mural painting, despite women typically being limited to "female arts" such as weaving and interior design. Scheper-Berkenkamp also contributed to Oskar Schlemmer's famed Triadisches Ballet, designing sets and costumes for groundbreaking Bauhaus performances.
Originally created for her children in the 1930s, the book was published in post-war Berlin, overcoming… Leer más

Unfortunately, not much is known about the photographer Diby Yao Christophe, but his photo book, Du twist à cocody, ou l'art de la natte, is an amazing document of hairstyles from the Ivory Coast of the 1970s.

This very scarce book was made between April 1970 and June 1972, in collaboration with the Institut d'Ethno-Sociologie
in Abidjan, which was at the time of publication the capital of the Ivory Coast. Interestingly, the book was published in French and English, by the French publisher Éditions Dalfoz, in 1972, translated by Timothy and Kathryn Weiskel.
Christophe ends his book with this very powerful statement:
"Why do some of our stylish women prefere [sic] bleached hair or wigs to genuine African creations? One's real hair, in my opinion, is worth more than faked hair, and an art evolved over time is always better than imported styles of others. I meet many of you who pretend to be European, trying to dress and act like white women.
Oh, my Black Sisters, why are you trying to forget… Leer más