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Die Vereinigten Staaten, Das Romantische Amerika, Baukunst, Landschaft und Volksleben.
This is a collection of 300 photographs of the United States taken in the 1920s and reproduced by photogravure process which gives the photographs more the look of engravings rather than the typical halftone black dot photo reproduction process. Although the 40-page preface is in German, all photograpahs are captioned in English, French, German, and Spanish. Breathtaking photography and one of the finest gravure volumes you'll find. This is a lavishly produced photographic document about United States in the early 1920s – bustling cities, monumental buildings, amazing bridges, industry, cars, lush flora, native people, unbelievably beautiful scenery, and famous landmarks– it's all here. And the quality of these photographs is unbelievable; they are not the usual bleak black and white photos – they are photogravures that are extremely sharp and detailed, and the scans don’t do justice to the pictures. Gilt abbreviated title on front cover and on spine. xl+304; 12" x 9"
344 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1927
About the author
E.O. Hoppé
21 booksEmil Otto Hoppé was a German-born British portrait, travel, and topographic photographer active between 1907 and 1945. Born into a wealthy family in Munich, he moved to London in 1900 originally to train as a financier, but took up photography and rapidly achieved great success.
In his life, Hoppé's reputation drew to him many important British and North American personalities in politics, literature, and the arts. In the era before the first World War, Hoppé photographed many leading literary subjects and figures from the art world such as Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, John Masefield, Léon Bakst, Anna Pavlova, Tamara Karsavina and other dancers of the Ballets Russes, Violet Hunt, Richard Strauss, Jacob Epstein and William Nicholson, some of whom were included in his 1913 exhibition. In the early 1920s he was invited to photograph, Queen Mary, King George, and members of the Royal family. Other subjects of the 1920s included Albert Einstein, Benito Mussolini, Robert Frost, Aldous Huxley, George Bernard Shaw and A.A. Milne. In the 1930s Hoppé photographed a number of dancers at the Vic-Wells company including Margot Fonteyn, Ninette de Valois, Hermione Darnborough and Beatrice Appleyard.
Working from a studio first in London's Baron's Court at 10 Margravine Gardens (1907–10), he moved in 1911 to a Baker Street studio. In 1913 he took on a lease of 7 Cromwell Place, occupying all thirty-three rooms of the previous home of Sir John Everett Millais, which later (from 1937) was used by dance photographer Gordon Anthony and subsequently Francis Bacon. Hoppé also made portraits of the street types of London: English cleaners, maids, and street vendors were photographed both in his studio and on the street. He continued this practice of capturing ordinary working men and women throughout his career as he travelled throughout the world.
(Source: Wikipedia)
In his life, Hoppé's reputation drew to him many important British and North American personalities in politics, literature, and the arts. In the era before the first World War, Hoppé photographed many leading literary subjects and figures from the art world such as Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, John Masefield, Léon Bakst, Anna Pavlova, Tamara Karsavina and other dancers of the Ballets Russes, Violet Hunt, Richard Strauss, Jacob Epstein and William Nicholson, some of whom were included in his 1913 exhibition. In the early 1920s he was invited to photograph, Queen Mary, King George, and members of the Royal family. Other subjects of the 1920s included Albert Einstein, Benito Mussolini, Robert Frost, Aldous Huxley, George Bernard Shaw and A.A. Milne. In the 1930s Hoppé photographed a number of dancers at the Vic-Wells company including Margot Fonteyn, Ninette de Valois, Hermione Darnborough and Beatrice Appleyard.
Working from a studio first in London's Baron's Court at 10 Margravine Gardens (1907–10), he moved in 1911 to a Baker Street studio. In 1913 he took on a lease of 7 Cromwell Place, occupying all thirty-three rooms of the previous home of Sir John Everett Millais, which later (from 1937) was used by dance photographer Gordon Anthony and subsequently Francis Bacon. Hoppé also made portraits of the street types of London: English cleaners, maids, and street vendors were photographed both in his studio and on the street. He continued this practice of capturing ordinary working men and women throughout his career as he travelled throughout the world.
(Source: Wikipedia)
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