5th Avenue
New York, Querido, 1947.
1 vol. (177 x 248 mm) of 60 unpaginated leaves. Publisher's boards with illustrated dust jacket.
First edition of the French version, published the same year as the American edition issued by Pantheon Books.
First printing of the 100 black-and-white photographs by Fred Stein, with an introduction by Jan-Albert Goris.
First printing of the 100 black-and-white photographs by Fred Stein, with an introduction by Jan-Albert Goris.
Born in Dresden, Fred Stein fled Nazi Germany in 1933 and settled in Paris, where he began his career as a photographer. Forced into exile again in 1941, he moved to New York, where he photographed the streets and inhabitants of the city, continuing a body of work begun in Paris in the 1930s. 5th Avenue is his first photographic book, devoted to the famous New York avenue, offering a journey through one hundred images from Washington Square to Harlem. Stein focuses on the everyday life of the blocks that make up the avenue — its passersby, shopkeepers, children and residents — in a photographic walk that provides a vivid portrait of postwar New York.
Small restoration to the lower margin of the dust jacket.
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