PHOTOGRAPHIE was an annual, special issue of the magazine Arts et Metiers Graphiques entirely dedicated to photography. There’s lots to read about AMG, the influential journal of all things print-related, at Modernism 101, where most of these images are from. There’s also a whole website about it at RIT.
What I particularly like about these photo annuals, aside from how beautiful they are, is that they feature no photography on the covers. The typography acts as master of ceremonies. It introduces the special guest and then gets out of the way.
Unfortunately, AMG founder Charles Peignot would definitely not approve of this post. He and his pals (like Le Corbusier, Jean Cocteau and A.M. Cassandre) formed Union des Artistes Modernes, a group "strongly against anything backward looking."
PHOTOGRAPHIE, 1938
PHOTOGRAPHIE, 1932
PHOTOGRAPHIE, 1930
PHOTOGRAPHIE, 1931
PHOTOGRAPHIE, 1933-34
PHOTOGRAPHIE, 1935
PHOTOGRAPHIE, 1938
PHOTOGRAPHIE, 1939
PHOTOGRAPHIE, 1937
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