MODERNIST PHOTOGRAPHY.
KRULL, GERMAINE. 1897-1985. Métal. Paris: Librairie des arts Décoratifs, 1928.
4to. 64 plates on stiff paper, each numbered and printed with Krull's name, the title, and the name of the editor, A. Calavas. Loose, as issued, in cloth-backed pictorial board portfolio with black cloth ties. Portfolio rubbed, hand-inked ownership inscription to spine, some light soiling to edges.
Provenance: From the distinguished collection of Delmer and Mary Lou Daves.

FIRST EDITION. This collection of views of industrial subjects established Krull's reputation as a pioneer of modernism. Parr & Badger, Le livre de photographies I: p 95; Roth, The Book of 101 Books pp 46-47.
Footnotes:
American actress Mary Lou Daves began her career in Hollywood as Mary Lou Lender in the Golden Age of Hollywood. Her work on the silver screen included films such as 'The Stratton Story,' 'Back Street,' 'No Man of Her Own' and 'State Fair' as well as notable television appearances on 'The Bob Cummings Show,' 'Playhouse 90,' and 'Dragnet.' Though it was her time on the 1938 Harold Lloyd comedy 'Professor Beware' where she met and subsequently married the budding film director, Delmer Daves.

As both writer and director, Daves would go on to contribute his talents to movies such as 'Destination Tokyo,' a wartime submarine drama starring Cary Grant and John Garfield, 'Dark Passage,' a melodrama starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in 1947, and 'Broken Arrow,' starring James Stewart in 1950. The Hollywood couple were married for 39 years until the latter's death in 1977.