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Micrographie décorative. Préface de Paul Léon. Paris, Draeger Frères 1931. Folio (435 x 385 mm) 4 Bl. text and 20 photogravures on different colored or metallic paper. Image in size: 285 x 225 mm, each photogravure mounted within passe-partout (425 x 360 mm). Spiral-bound original blind embossed hard cover boards in original portfolio folder (440 x 405 mm) The binding cover minimally spotted and a tiny missing part at the upper corner under the metal spiral of the front cover. The cardboard folder stained and with stronger traces of use. Inside very nice and extraordinarily clean copy.

One of 300 numbered copies (this being: no. 253) of a sumptuous produced classic Art Deco Book which was favourably received by her contemporaries, the shimmering patterns echoing the lapidary and marquetry work of Art Deco designers. Its limited circulation (305 copies), however, and the luxurious nature of the production, ensured that this particular example of artistic - scientific photography did not achieve the widespread popularity of Blossfeldt’s botanical studies. The study of geometric forms in nature and the study of fractals in late 20th century have further generated interest in this finely printed book.
„The project was a rare collaboration, not only between scientist and photographer but also between husband and wife. Laure Albin - Guillot was one of the most successful Parisian photographers of the 1920s, her style a commercially astute blend of pictorialism and modernism. She was renowned for a wide range of photography, her portraits, nudes and landscapes, her illustrations for books of modern French poetry, her cosmetic and pharmaceutical advertisements. Micrographie décorative, however was a more personal project, a memorial to her husband, who had died in 1929. He had been a specialist in preparing specimens for the microscope and his wife had helped him to make microphotographs. In these artistic experiments here, microscopic preparations were privately printed by photogravure onto various colored and metallic papers by the well-established Parisian printing house of Draeger Frères, who were responsible for many artists’ books. It was included in Beaumont Newhall’s historical overview of photography at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 1939: Photography 1839-1939.“ (Parr/Badger, The Photobook: A History I, 80)

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