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*Homage to Moï Ver* offerswhat Lesley Martin calls a “double delight”: the facsimile reprint of a modernist classic of the photobook, and a second volume included in the same slipcase that provides a curatorial perspective and a rich historical context for the publication. “An excellent way to present the book as it was originally published, supplemented with new studies and commentary,” concludes Martin. Moï Ver is best known for his seminal work, brimming with the dizzying energy of the eponymous city,Paris(1931).
That same year, the Lithuanian-born photographer, whose real name was Moses Vorobeichic, published Ein Ghetto im Osten-Wilna [A Ghetto in East Vilnius]. Two subjects that might surprise the contemporary reader, so different do they seem: a city, the heart of modernist art and literature in the early 20th century, set against the Jewish quarter of Vilnius, Lithuania—sometimes sleepy, sometimes bustling (a city that would be tragically destroyed by Nazi forces). But both were dynamic European capitals at that time; and in these two books, Moï Ver employed the same avant-garde approach to imagery through collage, double exposure, cropping, and placement on the page, with that same highly personal and constructivist verve.
Published by Sigute Chlebinskaite, Mindaugas Kvietkauskas and Nissan N. Perez, 2019
13.2 x 19.2 cm
192 pages
ISBN: 9786094252693
*Homage to Moï Ver* offerswhat Lesley Martin calls a “double delight”: the facsimile reprint of a modernist classic of the photobook, and a second volume included in the same slipcase that provides a curatorial perspective and a rich historical context for the publication. “An excellent way to present the book as it was originally published, supplemented with new studies and commentary,” concludes Martin. Moï Ver is best known for his seminal work, brimming with the dizzying energy of the eponymous city,Paris(1931).
That same year, the Lithuanian-born photographer, whose real name was Moses Vorobeichic, published Ein Ghetto im Osten-Wilna [A Ghetto in East Vilnius]. Two subjects that might surprise the contemporary reader, so different do they seem: a city, the heart of modernist art and literature in the early 20th century, set against the Jewish quarter of Vilnius, Lithuania—sometimes sleepy, sometimes bustling (a city that would be tragically destroyed by Nazi forces). But both were dynamic European capitals at that time; and in these two books, Moï Ver employed the same avant-garde approach to imagery through collage, double exposure, cropping, and placement on the page, with that same highly personal and constructivist verve.
Published by Sigute Chlebinskaite, Mindaugas Kvietkauskas and Nissan N. Perez, 2019
13.2 x 19.2 cm
192 pages
ISBN: 9786094252693