Lot 181: EMMANUEL SOUGEZ

EMMANUEL SOUGEZ Regarde! -- Look! Paris: H. Jonquières, 1932. Small folio (170 x 180mm). 24 black and white photographs. Original photo-illustrated covers bound with studs (light even browning, light wear, without label on spine). FIRST EDITION. 'Precise, elegant and lyrical' ( The Photobook ). One of the best children's photobooks from the period of high modernism -- a time during which 'publishers gave photographers a freer rein than they might have enjoyed if illustrating adult books, where their audience had much more rigid expectations' ( The Photobook ). The Photobook , vol. I, p.102 and reproducing the cover on the dust-jacket.

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