Walter Heynowski, Gerhard Scheumann - Operación Silencio. Chile (GDR/DDR PROPAGANDA) - 1974

"Operación Silencio. Chile nach Salvador Allende" ("Chile after Salvador Allende):

GREAT OPPORTUNITY to purchase this VERY SCARCE GDR/DDR PROPAGANDA PHOTOBOOK by Gerhard Scheumann and Walter Heynowski ("Die Kannibalen"; Martin Parr, Gerry Badger, The Photobook, volume 3, page 192).

TRUE FIRST ORIGINAL PRINTING (not to mix with the second printing same year).

"The available insights into fascist-ruled Chile are so clear that they could only be supplemented, but hardly deepened. The image of the illegal camera is juxtaposed with the military junta's endeavoured self-testimonies - because whoever points the lens at ‘Chile according to Salvado Allende’ fulfils - intentionally or unintentionally - the office of judge.'
(text from the rear cover of the book)

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Together with Gerhard Scheumann (1930-1998), Walter Heynowski, born 1927, is one of the most famous and important documentary and propaganda film directors of the GDR. He also worked on numerous films as a lyricist, scenarist, screenwriter and producer.

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Verlag der Nation, Berlin. 1974. First edition, first printing.

Hardback (as issued). 165 x 235 mm. 240 pages. Numerous black and white photos. Photographs by Peter Hellmich, Studio H&S. Layout: Walter Martsch. Edited by Walter Heynowski and Gerhard Scheumann. Text: Pablo Neruda, Salvador Allende and many others. Text in German.

Condition:
Book inside fresh and clean with no marks and with no foxing; the usual yellowing of the pages (cheap paper, material problem). Outside with little trace of use; small white stain on the rear side. Overall in fine, better than usual condition.

Scarce, deeply impressive East-German photobook by Walter Heynowski and Gerhard Scheumann.

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