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art book cologne, founded by Bernd Detsch in 1997, is a wholesale company and specializes in buying and selling high quality publications in art, art theory, architecture, design, photography, illustrated cultural history and all related subjects internationally. Our team includes specialists in art, culture, music, book trade and media but in spite of our diversity we have one common ground: the enthusiasm for unique art books.
We purchase remaining stocks from museums, publishers and art institutions. We sell these remainders to bookstores, museum shops, and art dealers all over the world.
Editor | Anatole Desachy |
Publisher | Éditions Les Yeux Ouverts |
Year | 2012 |
Cover | Hardcover |
Language | French |
ISBN | 978-2-9540640-0-0 |
Pages | 184 |
Weight | 1750 g |
Illustrations | with 600 ills |
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Author(s) | Éric Desachy, Guy Mandery |
Type of book | Documentation |
Museum / Place | Paris |
Article ID | art-08990 |
This book relates the history of "La Guilde du Livre" established by Albert Mermoud, a pioneer in the publication of great photobooks, in Lausanne. Robert Doisneau, Izis, Jacques Prévert, Colette, Cendras, and many others have written the history of "La Guilde du Livre".
600 reproductions illustrate the 84 photobooks shown in the publication realized by Anatole Desachy. Bibliographical notes and historical comments throw light on the variety of photobooks published by "La Guilde" between 1936 and 1977.