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This is the true first edition of Burri’s exemplary photobook, preceding the French issue by Delpire by one year, featuring 80 finely screened, “sharp and incisive” photogravure plates (Parr & Badger). A centerpiece of publisher Robert Delpire’s renowned series Encyclopédie essentielle, which also featured Robert Frank’s Les Américains, René Burri’s Die Deutschen is widely acclaimed as “one of the best photobooks of the 1960s… Die Deutschen exactly mirrors Les Américains in conception… Burri’s pictures are sharp and incisive, occupying an interesting middle ground between the controlled framing of the classic photojournalistic mode and the casual looseness of Frank… [Primarily] Burri is a documentary photographer, a photojournalist, in a way that Frank is not …He is both a responsible journalist and an extremely talented photographer” whose chronicle of postwar Germany makes Die Deutschen a striking model of the “classic genre of European photojournalism” (Parr & Badger I:218, 190).
The French edition published in 1963 by Delpire was titled Les Allemands.
This is the true first edition of Burri’s exemplary photobook, preceding the French issue by Delpire by one year, featuring 80 finely screened, “sharp and incisive” photogravure plates (Parr & Badger). A centerpiece of publisher Robert Delpire’s renowned series Encyclopédie essentielle, which also featured Robert Frank’s Les Américains, René Burri’s Die Deutschen is widely acclaimed as “one of the best photobooks of the 1960s… Die Deutschen exactly mirrors Les Américains in conception… Burri’s pictures are sharp and incisive, occupying an interesting middle ground between the controlled framing of the classic photojournalistic mode and the casual looseness of Frank… [Primarily] Burri is a documentary photographer, a photojournalist, in a way that Frank is not …He is both a responsible journalist and an extremely talented photographer” whose chronicle of postwar Germany makes Die Deutschen a striking model of the “classic genre of European photojournalism” (Parr & Badger I:218, 190).
The French edition published in 1963 by Delpire was titled Les Allemands.