Paris : 80 Photographies de Moï Ver

Paris: Éditions 7L, 2004. No. 636 of 1,000 copies. [92]pp; b&w plates. Sewn in plain wraps with fold-on photo-illustrated jacket. Housed as issued in gray cloth clamshell case with mounted title cards mounted to front and spine. Fine.

A modern facsimile edition of this legendary 1931 photobook by Israeli photographer Moï Ver (1904-1995); a landmark work employing elements of photomontage and avant-garde layout to capture the dynamism of life in inter-war Paris. With the original introduction, in French, by Fernand Léger. The original edition bored in both Roth (70-71) and Parr & Badger (v1, 128-129).