Author: ANTON BRUEHL
Title: Mexico
Description: New York, Houghton Mifflin Company. 1933, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, 1933. "Mexico -- Photographs of Mexico" inscribed by Anton Bruehl. #860 of edition of 1,000.  25 collotype plates -- tan linen boards quarter-bound in black morocco. Handsomely produced, this b&w photobook is a modernist representation of early 20th century Mexico, deliberately photographed to be free of social analysis. Anton Bruehl wrote of this experience "..the beauty of this country lies in the people.. their faces are exciting with a.. beauty that has in it centuries of suffering ..Everywhere I found the people friendly and patient .. so completely unaffected that anything but a direct presentation of the scene before me seemed insincere". Nice overall condition. 16.25" x 12.5". Unpaginated. A small almond shaped dampstain at bottom near the spine does not encroach on text block or photographs. Good. Inscribed by Author(s).

Keywords: Latin America, 20th century art, photography