Keld Helmer-Petersen: 122 Colour Photographs (Books on Books #14)

Mette Sandbye

Hardcover | 19.05 x 2.54 x 25.4 cm | 136 pp

Errata Editions | 2012 | 9781935004271

Helmer-Petersen's 1948 publication of 122 Colour Photographs stands as an extraordinary accomplishment: inspired by the realism of the Neue Sachlichkeit movement, Helmer-Petersen concentrated on the mundane and the everyday, generating a panoply of geometric abstractions out of curved doorknobs, crates of tomatoes, industrial metal drums and straw-coloured buildings against milky blue skies.

With this reproduction - as part of Errata Editions Books on Books series - accompanied by an essay by historian Mette Sandbye, 122 Colour Photographs assumes its proper role as the foundational book that successfully put colour photography on the map and brought modernism into Danish photography.

Errata Editions Books on Books

The Errata Editions Books on Books series is an on-going publishing project dedicated to making rare and out-of-print photography books accessible to students and photobook enthusiasts. These are not reprints nor facsimiles but comprehensive studies of rare books. Each in this series presents the entire content, page for page, of an original master bookwork which, up until now, has been too rare or prohibitively expensive for most to experience. Through a mix of classic and contemporary titles, this series spans the breadth of photographic practice as it has appeared on the printed page, enabling further study into the creation and meanings of these great works of art.

Each in the Books on Books series contains; illustrations of every page in the original photobook being featured; contemporary essays by established writers on photography composed specially for this series; production notes about the production of the original edition; biography and bibliography information about each artist.

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