First edition of 122 Colour Photographs by Keld Helmer-Petersen (1948)

First impression

Large format hardback in very good condition

Signed and inscribed “mit freundlichen Grssen” (“Best Regards”) to top of title page by Keld Helmer-Petersen

General age-appropriate wear to dust jacket with expected chipping and slight loss to extremities

Two minor archival tape repairs to the jacket exterior (top edge of front panel) and interior (top of front flap)

Jacket now in a removable protective sleeve

Some minor chipping to extremities of boards

Some toning to end pages (please see image)

Some slight toning to extremities of pages

Otherwise, pages clean, binding firm

Text in Danish and English

About

“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