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BRODOVITCH (ALEXEY)
Ballet, FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 500 COPIES

22 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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BRODOVITCH (ALEXEY)

Ballet, FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, text by Edwin Denby, 104 photographic plates by Brodovitch, ownership inscription inside upper cover, publisher's cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket (worn at extremities, without spine) [The Photobook, pp.240-41], oblong 4to, New York, J.J. Augustin, [1945]

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"A legendary photobook... one of the most successful attempts at suggesting motion in photographs, and certainly one of the most cinematic and dynamic photobooks ever published" (The Photobook). A hugely influential work by the Russian-born photographer Alexy Borodovitch (1898-1971).

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