Vladimir Hipman. Menschen Arbeit im Eisenwerke

Hipman, Vladimir (photog.)– Menschen Arbeit im Eisenwerke [Men at Work in the Ironworks].
Witkowitz [Vítkovice/Ostrava]: Eisenwerk Witkowitz, [1938]. 23.5x18.5. Publisher’s patterned paper-covered boards with green cloth spine lettered Poesie der Arbeit in gilt; gilt Witkowitz company emblem on upper cover. Illustrated with 25 full-page gravure photographs by Vladimir Hipman, printed by Nebert & Söhne, Prag-Smíchov.

Photobook celebrating the workers and industrial achievements of the Eisenwerk Witkowitz, one of the principal concerns of the Moravian-Silesian steel industry. Hipman’s dramatic gravures depict blast furnaces, steelworks interiors, machinery, and laborers at work, combining documentary purpose with the modernist visual language of interwar industrial photography. The company's operations encompassed coal mining, iron production, steel refining, and metal processing.

This copy consists of the front endpaper with company logo, the photographic portfolio [25 plates] and rear endpage, without the accompanying text by Oskar Federer, but featuring a unique company binding.