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JEAN SELZ (ed). 'Photographie 1939' Ring bound, printed fabric wraps, ninety heliogravure plates, twenty-six text illustrations, artist include Ralph Bartholomew, Gaetan Fouquet, Erwin Blumefield, Hein Gorny, Georges Martin, Hisao Okamoto and Andre Steiner, Arts et Metiers Graphiques, Paris, 1939. In 1925, the critic, poet, and one of the founders of Surrealism, Andre Breton, posed the question: when would 'all the books that are worth anything stop being illustrated with drawings and appear only with photographs?’ A few short years after this statement, the photographic image had established itself as one of the most provocative, poetic, and radical forms of representation in modern society. A plethora of groundbreaking exhibitions, books and publicity, the work of some of the most influential figures in history of photography, ushered in the creative flowering of the medium across Europe. Unquestionably the increasingly effective presence of photography was tied to the emergence of these new recruits and their passionate conviction regarding its creative worth. It was out of this hotbed of revolution in the photographic form, that one of the most influential photographic annuals of the 20th century was published in Paris on the 15 March 1930. Photographie began life as a one off special issue of the graphic arts bimonthly magazine Arst et Métiers Graphiques (No 16). [Kerry William Purcell]
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