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Lucien Vogel (Ed.) Témoignages de notre Temps - Les Juifs [“Witness to our Time - The Jews.”]

Auction 90 · Lot 45

Lucien Vogel (Ed.) Témoignages de notre Temps - Les Juifs [“Witness to our Time - The Jews.”]

Estimate
$300–$500
Hammer price
Not recorded

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author

(PHOTOGRAPHY).

Place

Paris

Description

Text in French, including writings by Einstein, Chaim Weizman, Sholom Asch, Ernst Renan and others. Featuring hundreds of black-and-white photogravures (many full page) including a stunning series on the Jews in Palestine by Helmar Lerski. La Société Anonyme Les Illustrés Français, 1933

summary

See Open Book, 98. Scarce edition of the magazine edited by noted French photographer and publisher Lucien Vogel, a tribute and illustrated survey of Jewish life and culture in various European countries, including the spectre of rising anti-Semitism. Featuring exceptional photographs, including early images by Man Ray and André Kertész.
pp. 102. Worn, fore-edges of opening few leaves frayed. Lacking pictorial wrappers, spine crudely taped. Sm. 4to.
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