Moï Ver (pseudonym of Moshe Raviv)

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 USD

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Description

Moï Ver (pseudonym of Moshe Raviv)
Paris. 80 photographies de Moï Ver. Introduction de Fernand Léger. Paris: Jeanne Walter, 1931.
Ink and paper

4to (11 1/2 x 8 3/4 in.; 294 x 220 mm). 78 pages of black and white photomontages. Original photo-illustrated wrappers; some foxing, extremities rubbed, spine faded with small lacks on the top and bottom.

Literature

The Photobook, vol. I, pp. 120, 128-29; 101 Books, pp.70-71; Auer, p.174; The Open Book, 100-101

Catalogue Note

First edition of the "starling photobook masterpiece" (The Photobook):
Copy number 217 of and edition of 1000 copies. Unrestored.

'A breathtaking compendium of odd angles, multiple exposures, sandwiched negatives and fractured spaces'; 'the Paris seen in Moï Ver's astonishing book (...) is unequivocally the Paris of the here and now, or of the future' (The Photobook). 'No one has yet matched Moï Ver's vision of the brutal, chaotic, irresistible modern city' (101 Books).