Rene Burri - Die Deutschen. Photographien 1957-1964 - 1990

FANTASTIC FIRST, NOW RARE, paperback edition of the FIRST IMPORTANT and MOST FAMOUS PHOTO SERIES by the LEGENDARY MAGNUM PHOTOGRAPHER René Burri: "The Germans".

Parts of the photos were published first time 1962 by Fretz and Wasmuth, Zurich (Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook, vol 1, page 218).

With text by well-known German author Hans Magnus Enzensberger.

The very charismatic Swiss photographer became famous through his photos of Che Guevara, Le Corbusier, Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti and many other famous people.

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Schirmer and Mosel, Munich, 1990. First printing in paperback. Second modified edition with one photo less in a different selection and in different order to the editons from 1962 and 1986.

Paperback. 267 x 254 mm. 120 pages. 87 black and white photographs. Photos: René Burri. Text: Hans Magnus Enzensberger. Text in German.

Condition:
Paperback in fantastic condition with minimal yellowing on the covers; inside clean and like new. Wonderful signature by Burri on first blank page. Rare! Very important photobook! Signed!*

Condition:
Book clean with no marks and with no foxing. Inside and outside lightly used, outside like so often lightly yellowed. Overall fine condition.

Very important, very rare photobook - in the true first paperback edition worldwide.

A member of the famous artist-owned photo agency Magnum Photos, Swiss photographer René Burri (1933–2014) found himself wherever history was happening during the late twentieth century. His countless travels took him across Europe and the Americas to the Middle East to Japan and China to document the twentieth century’s major events. His extraordinary sense for people and their personalities resulted in remarkably candid portraits of celebrities, such as architects Le Corbusier, Oscar Niemeyer, and Luis Barragán; artists Alberto Giacometti, Pablo Picasso, and Jean Tinguely; and Che Guevara, whose 1963 portrait with a cigar is one of the world’s most famous and widely reproduced photographic portraits.