Schiff catleen ellen (3 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Dark cream boards, b&w photograph pasted to front cover, red band along edge, small drawing of photographer in red to bottom left, titles in black to spine, no dust jacket, repairs to hinges, colour diagram of the city, 87pp, b&w photographs throughout, b&w line drawings compliment the photographs, commentary in English, previous owner's neat stickers to bottom right of front paste down. The covers are grubby, stained and worn at the edges, a few smudges to title page, neat repair to 1cm tear at bottom of title page, small damp stain to bottom of first few pages, a few thumb prints otherwise , internally this is a bright, clean and tight copy. Schiff, F H (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. First Edition. Folio. Illustrated with photographs by the author and sketches by F H Schiff. Map. Cream cloth with photographic illustration inset on front board with red cloth title ribbon lettered in black. Some soiling and spotting to boards and spine, Very Good+. Internally clean and bright. Stunning images "taken by the Rolleiflex camera" of Catleen, who was Ellen Thorbecke, the wife of the former Dutch ambassador to China, and is here using her maiden name. Friedrich Schiff (1908-1968) was Austrian and came to China in 1930, where he worked as a newspaper caricaturist.At is core, Peking Studies presents an early adoption of street photography - but what streets: Exotica from another era. Friedrich Schiff (illustratore).…

First and only edition. Numerous photographic illustrations and sketches (partly in colour). Folio. Original cloth, a very good copy. 87pp. Shanghai, Kelly & Walsh, A rare Kelly & Walsh imprint and one of the most evocatively illustrated books of the period. The work follows Mr. Pim and Mr. Wu on their perambulations through Peking and it's surroundings. The mixture of excellent photography with sketches by the caricaturist Schiff makes for a thoroughly enjoyable item. Friedrich Schiff (1908-1968) was born in Austria and came to China at the age of twenty-two. Here he worked as charicaturist for several newspapers, designed postcards, illustrated books, and even painted murals in public buildings and clubs in Shanghai. The Historical Museum in Vienna devoted a small exhibition to Schiff in March 2002. Catleen was Ellen Thorbecke's (1902-1973) maiden name. She married the Dutch ambassador to China Willem Thorbecke in the early 30s.…