Moi Wer (Moi Ver, Moses Vorobeichic) - Ci-contre, Ann und Jürgen Wilde, 2004, Vorobeichic
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Softcover in publisher's (unprinted) slipcase. "110 photos de Moi Wer." Texts by Hannes Böhringer, Ann and Jürgen Wilde and Inka Graeve Ingelmann.
Born near Vilnius in 1904, Moses Vorobeichic—better known as Moi Wer and later Moshe Raviv—studied painting before enrolling at the Bauhaus in Dessau in 1927–28. Influenced by Josef Albers, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, and László Moholy-Nagy, as well as the films of Sergei Eisenstein and the photomontages of John Heartfield, he turned to photography and developed a distinctive visual language rooted in the ideals of the New Vision movement.
After moving to Paris in 1928, he studied under Fernand Léger while working as an independent photographer. His first photobook, Ein Ghetto im Osten, Wilna (1931), documented the Jewish ghetto of Vilnius. The same year, he published Paris, introduced by Léger, and contributed photographic essays to leading avant-garde magazines including Vu, Regards, Bifur, and Arts et Métiers Graphiques.
In 1931, Moi Wer completed Ci-contre, an ambitious unpublished photobook built around cinematic montages and layered compositions that captured the rhythm and energy of Paris. Although the complete dummy was sent to Franz Roh in Munich in search of a publisher, political upheaval and Wer's emigration to Palestine in 1934 prevented its publication. The original maquette resurfaced in 1968 when it was acquired by the German collectors Ann and Jürgen Wilde, who later re-established contact with the artist. In 2004, they published the first facsimile edition of this long-lost masterpiece, securing its place among the most important experimental photobooks of the interwar period.
Artist: Moses (Moi Ver) Vorobeichic
Pages: 122
Place: Köln
Year: 2004
Publisher: Ann und Jürgen Wilde
Size: 22 × 30 cm (approx.)
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