Aleksandr Rodchenko: The New Moscow. by Margarita Tupitsyn - 2001.

London, UK Schirmer/Mosel Verlag Gmbh: Schirmer Art Books, 2001. Paperback First Edition (2001), unstated. Near Fine in Wraps: shows only the most minute indications of use: just a hint of wear to the lower corner of the rear panel and even finer wear to the front corner tips; mildest rubbing to the rear panel and a small, superficial indentation to the lower rear panel; the . binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the panels. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome, very-close-to-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing a couple of unobtrusive cosmetic flaws only. Bright and Clean. Corners sharp. Very close to 'As New'. Still has that pleasant "New Book' scent. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. Folio (12.2 x 9.45 x 0.5 inches). 21 page text followed by 81 Full-page duotone photographic plates. Language: English. Weight: 27.7 ounces. First Edition (2001), unstated. Paperback: Pictorial Wraps. City portraits were a favorite theme of avant-garde photographers. The booming industrial metropolises, whose faces were to change radically within a few years, called for a new vision and unaccustomed perspectives. This is revealed in The New Moscow, Aleksandr Rodchenko’s view of the capital of the then still young Soviet Union, whose dynamic awakening during the Socialist era inspired the avant-garde artist to create this unusual project. After being expelled from the October group in 1932, Rodchenko was commissioned to take pictures of Moscow. Out of this series Varvara Stepanova, his wife and colleague, compiled a narrative sequence of eight-nine gelatin silver prints adding to it some photographs from the October period. The photos of street parades, housing projects, technical buildings, new sport facilities, and factories taken between the late twenties and early thirties were meant to appeal on two levels: firstly for their new aesthetics—the famous Rodchenko perspective and secondly for their film-like sequencing. The artist prepared the series for a 1933 edition, which was never published. Many of his high quality vintage prints were preserved, however, and are now published in a complete reconstruction of The New Moscow.