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[THE BOOK TO UNDERSTAND EARLY SOVIET PHOTOGRAPHY] Slovar'-spravochnik po fotomekhanike i sootvetstvuyushchim oblastyam poligrafii [i.e. Dictionary and reference book on photomechanics and related areas of printing]

Laubert Yu.K.

Item #2578

Moscow; Leningrad: Gizlegprom, 1936 (Leningrad: printshop. "Pechatny dvor" and printshop named after.. Voldarsky). 321 p., 1 p. Adverts: ill.; 23x16 cm. Original cloth binding with the gilt lettering on the sine and front cover. Binding is slightly rubbed. Otherwise in good condition. Owner’s stamp on the title page ‘V.Bliumfeld’, likely belonging to the Soviet historian of the photography Valery Bliumfeld.

Printed in 3175 copies, which was a moderate print run for book in mid-1930s the edition was aimed at photoprogressional and even more on the print shop workers, the typographers and the photo-setters, who have been working with transmitting the photograph to a page of the book or a magazine in real time. As author states in the preface, what looked like a simpler process in 1920s, by mid-1930s has became an art in itself with the additional terminology and machinery coming to the field with every year, it was hard for the workers to keep up with it all: this is why the book was produced.

Yuli Karlovich Laupert (1873-?) was an active educator and author in the field of photography and photo-printing. During 1920-1940s he has written more than a dozen titles, with the ultimate bestseller 'Oshibki i neudachi negativnogo protsessa’ survived 4 edition pre-war and became a hand-book for the first generation of the amateur photographers.
This dictionary has been re-printed for the second edition in 1941.

Worldcat doesn’t track this edition, only showing copies of 2nd editon at NYPL and Harvard.

Price: $900.00