WONDERFUL MONOGRAPH by Heinrich Kühn (1866-1944). SCARCE OPPORTUNITY to purchase this great photobook - in BRANDNEW CONDITION. New, mint, unread; still originally shrink-wrapped in publisher's plastic foil. COLLECTOR'S COPY. Welcome to the LAST PHOTOBOOK AUCTION by 5Uhr30.com starting this year - with more than 100 great lots from my personal collection and from recent acquisitions. Heinrich Kühn was one of the central figures in the establishment of international art photography at the turn of the twentieth century. His lifelong goal was to establish the photographic image as an avenue for rendering an artistic vision as precisely and creatively as in painting or drawing. Along with Alfred Stieglitz and other friends, Kühn made the stylized photograph an element of the Gesamtkunstwerk aspired to by the Secessionists. The most important tool for this was an offset process he had perfected, which due to the free choice of paper and pigment made the picture look more like a print than a conventional photograph. This allowed him to deliberately alter the brightness contrasts to fit his notion of the image and dissolve the sharpness of the image, rejected as “non-artistic,” at his own convenience. Around 1910, Kühn reduced the romantic cosmos of “Pictorialism” to the point where his compositions became almost abstract and exhibited a sense of timelessness and balance. Like always we guarantee detailed and accurate descriptions, 100% transport protection, 100% transport insurance and of course combined shipping - worldwide. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern. Albertina, Vienna. 2010. First German edition, first printing. Paperback with dustjacket. 258 x 275 mm. 280 pages. 281 photos (237 in colour). Edited by Astrid Mahler and Monika Faber. Texts by Monika Faber, Andreas Gruber, Francoise Heilbrun, Astrid Mahler and Anne Tucker. Layout by Andreas Platzgummer. Text in German. Great photobook by Heinrich Kühn - in perfect condition. WE THANK YOU SO MUCH to make our single-seller photobook auctions on Catawiki so successful. Ecki Heuser & team are wishing ALL THE BEST TO YOU AND YOURS for 2025.