Subjektive Fotografie (vol. 1 & 2)

Otto Steinert
Subjektive Fotografie (vol. 1 & 2)

Photographs: Moholy-Nagy, Man Ray, Herbert Bayer, Heinz Hajek-Halke, Peter Keetmann, Edouard Boubat, Daniel Maclet, Toni Schneiders, Siegried Lauterwasser, Romain Urhausen, Christer Strömholm, Bill Brandt, Brassai

Text: Otto Steinert

Publisher: Bruder Auer Verlag

Pictures: 111

Year: 1952 & 1955

Comments: 2 books. Hardcover under scarce dust jacket in a slipcase, 300 x 230 mm. First edition, 1952 & 1955. Gravure printing. Text in german, in english and in french. Slipcase a little damaged. Some tears to corners(see pictures). Otherwise copies rather strong. Inside clean. Reproductions very well preserved. Included in The Photobook by Parr & Badger, vol.1 ; The Open Book by Andrew Roth. Collector's copy!

" . . . The two Subjective Photography books published by Steinert were highly influential, and its approach to photography might be compared to the kind of formalist work being made around the same time at the Chicago Institute of Design . . . the comparison is entirely apt, for both European and American tendencies shared a common heritage -- the Bauhaus. The Chicago brand of new formalism, however, was overlaid with homegrown aesthetic ideas derived from Alfred Steiglitz and American Modernism that gave it a richness and a complexity lacking in the Fotoform group."

Martin Parr & Gerry Badger, The Photobook