PhotoBooks Austria

This book introduces one of the great photographers of our century, Emil Mayer, a turn-of-the-century Viennese street photographer whose prints were largely destroyed by the Gestapo after his death. Viennese Types is Mayer's surviving masterwork, a recently discovered portfolio of original prints that is published here for the first time. It is by any measure one of the most extraordinary collections in the literature of photography, lyrical, meditative, and deeply moving. And the prints themselves, bromoil transfers, are wonderful, giving each image the suggestive, timeless quality of an etching or lithograph. Rudolf Arnheim, in the foreword to the book, calls Mayer 'an intimate master.' Others have compared his work to that of Henri Cartier-Bresson. But as Mayer's photographs were taken in the early years of the century, long before those of Cartier-Bresson and other street photographers, this collection is like nothing ever seen before: it is a window on a vanished age, seen through modern eyes. Designed by Carl Zahn, and printed in Italy by Stamperia Valdonega, this is a book of truly exquisite beauty.

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Already well established in the fields of travel, journalistic, and advertising photography, Horst and Tina Herzig focus on Austria's elegant capital city to give us a stunning visual survey in black and white. Interspersed among the many artfully composed photographs of Vienna's most famous landmarks are dozens of pictures that reveal the everyday life of the Viennese, their leisure pursuits, and their work-a-day reality. Designed to fit in any briefcase or handbag, this portrait of one of Europe's most beautiful cities is also the perfect keepsake for any traveler.

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