An extraordinary compendium of 148 b/w photographs by photographers of the New Vision Photography, a movement emerging in the 1920s emphasizing photography as an autonomous artistic practice relating directly to the principles of the Bauhaus. "Es kommt der neue Fotograf" was published around the famous exhibition "Film und Foto" in Stuttgart, 1929, along with Roh and Tschichold's Foto-Auge. Both publications adopt what came to be known as "picture-essay format." Gräff's publications, however, "has as much of a practical as a theoretical slant. It can be considered as a 'how-to' compendium of the new photography, and is divided into sections, each several pages long, showing either formal strategies like tilting the frame or repeating similar elements, close-ups and so on, or genres such as photograms, montage, advertising and magazine photography."

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