“In the history of photography, that is to say the history of photography according to the art museum, color photography became an artistically viable medium around the early 1970s, with the emergence of such photographers as Stephen Shore and William Eggleston. However, in 1948 the Danish photographer Keld Helmer-Petersen prefigured their work by two decades or so…his aim was to make pictures that would only work in color, and not in black and white…he achieved his ends in a similar way to Shore or Eggleston, by concentrating on the mundane and the everyday…it deserves credit as a singular, remarkably early and largely successful attempt to make color photography work” Martin Parr & Gerry Badger in The Photobook, A History
Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1937. Large quarto in the original printed illustrated wraps. 217 pp. Text in Danish. 157 photographs on 128 beautifully printed plates plus 1 foldout map. Photographs finely deep gravure printed. Covers are worn, the dustjacket with some tears. Book itself very well preserved and solid and inside clean,…