Beauty in the Olympic Match
Here is a stunning book by Leni Riefenstahl, the world-famous German photographer and film maker
who filmed the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. Riefenstahl is one of the greatest film makers of all time.
It's a large folio volume of still photographs of Riefenstahl's filming of her motion picture Olympia.
Generally considered the finest sports documentary ever produced, Olympia is well portrayed in this
wonderful collection of photogravures of the various sporting events of the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
At the rear of this coffee table book is a section showing many pictures of Riefenstahl shooting the film.
All photographs are identified and captioned in five languages:
German, French, English, Spanish, and Italian.
[Olympia was a controversial film considered by many to be the greatest sports film ever made.
Olympia won the Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival, where it was shown in 1938, and has always
been judged a magnificent example of cinematography.
This volume of work was compiled by Riefenstahl while the film was still in production,
and a number of the photographs at the end of the book show her working on the film.]
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Hardcover (Full Linen)
w/ gilt stamping
281 pages, german text
~280 high quality photogravure plates, many of them full page !!
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In good exterior and very good interior condition.
Foxing to edges, gilt spine and spine lettering slightly flaking off as usual, otherwise ok.
All pages are complete and tight in the binding.
Most copies around lacking pages 55/56 + 117/118.
This copy however is complete with all pages !!
Approx/Measurements: 12-1/2" x 9-3/4" ~4.7 lbs.
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from Leni Riefenstahl
Published by Deutsch Publisher Berlin
SCARCE FIRST EDITION !!!!
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