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Michail Plaksin
Print media exhibition (PRESSA, Cologne 1928)
1928
Gelatin silver print
17.3 x 11.3 cm
Bassenge Photography Auctions
Auction (17 June 2009, Sale 93, Lot 4518)
LL/32532
The large PRESSA print media exhibition was held in Cologne in 1928 and highlighted German dominance in all the fields of printing and publishing. It was also intended as a showcase of modernist architecture (with the pavilion for the publisher Rudolf-Mosse, designed by Erich Mendelsohn) and modernist exhibition display (it featured the legendary work of El Lissitsky for the U.S.S.R. pavilion). During the exhibition a series of photos were taken of the mixed media sculptures by Michail Plaksin and El Lissitzky. Only a few prints of these images still exist today and are very rare.
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