Leni Riefenstahl Life

Soft cover. Used, good condition. White matt laminated wrappers with title printed in black on cover and spine, with matching dust jacket and 6-inch orange obi (Japanese wrap-around band) printed in Japanese. Photographs and films by Leni Riefenstahl. Text (in Japanese) by Eiko Ishioka, Toshiharu Itoh and Noriko Kabashima. Edited by Masayo Sai. Includes an explanation of the plates and a chronology with notes on people in Riefenstahl’s circle. Designed by Eiko Ishioka. Unpaginated (240 pp.), with 57 half-tone plates and 51 four-color plates and additional reference illustrations beautifully printed in Japan by Nissha Printing Co., Ltd. 14-1/8 x 10-1/8 inches. From the publisher: “Over 100 photographs in black and white and full color trace Riefenstahl’s fascinating life and art. An oversized format adds impact to her often exotic subject matter. In addition to images from pre-war Germany, here is a remarkable assembly of images ranging from tribal life in the Sudan to wonderfully geometric studies of underwater sealife.”