Martin Hurlimann - India, The Landscape, the Monuments and the People (1928, Ed. Ernst Wasmuth, seria Orbis Terrarum) 450 ilustratii photo-gravure

Autor: Martin Hurlimann

Titlu: India: The Landscape, the Monuments and the People

Editura: Ernst Wasmuth

An aparitie: 1928

Nr. pagini: 504

Format mare

Hartie de calitate

Tip coperta: Cartonata, panzata (titlu pe coperta/cotor incrustat cu reflexii aurii)

450 ilustratii (tehnica fotogravura) + harta

starea cartii: foarte buna

Limba engleza

Descriere: Martin Hürlimann (12 November 1897, Zürich, Switzerland — 4 March 1984, Zürich), was a Swiss publisher, musicologits and self-taught photographer who visited extensively Asia in the 1920s and 1930s, including Cambodia.

In 1929, he founded the magazine Atlantis in Berlin, specializing in countries, travels and peoples, and one year later the Atlantis Verlag publishing house, incorporating to it the Orbis Terrarum series from Wasmuth Publishers. Ater opening a branch in Zurich in 1939, he moved the whole operation to Switzerland in 1939 due to the Nazi takeover, maintaining a branch in Freiburg im Breisgau. His wife since 1933, Bettina Kiepenheuer, the oldest daughter of Gustav Kiepenheuer, another publisher, actively participated in the publishing work. 

Traveling in Europe and Asia from 1922, he visited Ceylon [Sri Lanka], Burma [Myanmar], Siam [Thailand], Annam, Yunnan, and Cambodia, and was in Phnom Penh in 1926, when he took a since-then famous yet seldom credited photograph of George Groslier at his desk in the Musée Albert Sarraut. In India, he traveled and photographed numerous areas, including Rajasthan, Kashmir, Peshawar, Amristar, Srinagar, Bengal, Madras. 

His photographs of India and Southeast Asia — mainly taken with a Sinclair Una camera, Zeiss lens and Kodak films, according to their author — reflect his interest in daily life scenes, local artworks and architectural structures. In typical multilingual Swiss fashion, he captioned his pictures in German, English, Italian and French.

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