Ilya Ehrenburg, El Lissitzky - My Paris. Moi Parizh - 2005

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Fantastic reprint of the avantgarde photobook about Paris:
Michael Koetzle, Paris in photobook 1890 till today, page 59

The book was originally published in Moscow in 1933 (Martin Parr, The photobook, vol 1, page 132/133).

New, mint, unread; still originally shrink-wrapped in publisher's plastic foil.
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Steidl, Göttingen. 2005. First edition, first printing.

Hardback with booklet and with slipcase (as issued). 167 x 195 mm. 240 pages. 125 black and white photos. Photos and texts by Ilya Ehrenburg. Photo montages and layout: El Lissitzky. Design: Alexander Brodsky. Booklet with 48 pages. Text in English.

Wonderful photobook as brilliant reprint in perfect condition.

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The Paris of Ilya Ehrenburg knows no Louvre or Notre Dame and shows the Eiffel Tower crouching behind shabby facades and building timber. The Paris in which the Russian revolutionary lived from 1908 to 1940 was a place in which completely normal people with little money and hope struggled through life. Ehrenburg photographed them at their doors und in cafes, at work and at rest, in their poverty and dignity, and wrote brief texts that describe them.

"My Paris" is an impressive work of photographic social reporting. It presents portraits of the elderly and children, workers and outcasts and stands in stark contrast to the glamorous Paris of so many idealized representations.