Zofia RYDET 1956 MALY CZLOWIEK Little Man scarce Children Polish photobook

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Zofia RYDET 1956 MALY CZLOWIEK Little Man scarce Children Polish photobook:
$99.00

Wydawnictwo. Arkady. 1965.
First edition, first printing.Breath-taking children photobook! Brilliant layout! With the extrem scarce original dustjacket!
Scarce first printing. Hardcover in yellow linen with dustjacket. 195 x 255 mm. 149 pages.Black and white photos.Extrem scarce! Especially with original dustjacket! A real treasure and totally underrated!
Texts in Polish, English, French and Russian.Zofia Rydet’s exceptional album from 1965 combines over 140 of the photographer’s unique captions of children with an innovative layout designed by Wojciech Zamecznik and touchingly apt quotes from the writings of Janusz Korczak
Zofia Rydet had taken up photography later in her life. She had assisted her photographer brother Tadeusz during the Second World War, but only began to take her own shots when she was 40. The Little Man series is her first autonomous work, and from 1952 to 1963, Rydet conveyed the world of the child. This theme, along with motherhood and old age, held a special place for her, as she was childless. She first worked on the series in Poland, in the Silesia and Podhale regions in the south, and during trips in Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Egypt and Lebanon. The album continues to captivate viewers, even as it is set against the background of today’s global trend of photography books.Little Man was also an unparalleled accomplishment in the People\'s Republic of Poland. Photographer-as-author albums appeared around the world in the 1950s, and some remain classics: William Klein’s New York (1955), Robert Frank\'s The Americans (1958), The Decisive Moment by Henri Cartier-Bresson with its Henri Matisse cover (1952), Europeans with coverage of Juan Miro (1955), as well as the Parisians from Robert Doisneau (1954). Such works established the identity of 20th century humanist photography.Rare!
Book in very good condition
dustjacket in fair condition

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