Olympia, Leni Riefenstahl, St. Martin’s Press, NY, 1994, Near Fine, HC

Riefenstahl, Leni. New York. St. Martin's Press. 1994.

English, Revised Edition, Near Fine, HC, quarto,12 1/2" X  9 1/2", 288 pp. 

ISBN: 0312113714

Near Fine Quarto, red cloth over board, gilt lettering to spine. Minor soiling to text block other wise binding tight, sharp tips, and no markings throughout. Fine dust jacket featuring photographs to covers, black and red lettering to covers. Protected in a paper-backed Mylar sleeve. 288 pp. replete with black-and-white reproductions of Riefenstahl’s innovative and ground-breaking photographs of athletic competitors at the 1936 Olympics. Contents include Foreword by Monique Berlioux, director of the International Olympic Committee, Introduction by Kevin Brownlow, filmmaker and film historian, and documentation of 1936 Olympic games.  From the dustjacket: ‘Leni Riefenstahl's visual genius is fully evident in this remarkable collection of black and white photographs. Through her lens, we view the epitome of the beauty of athleticism, the excitement of competition, and the pressure of the political atmosphere. Olympia is a remarkable record of human idealism, Olympic excellence, and photographic skill.”