GRINDAT (Henriette) - CRANAKI (Mimica). - Lot 122

GRINDAT (Henriette) - CRANAKI (Mimica). Mediterranean. Lausanne, Éditions Clairefontaine, 1957. In-4, publisher’s hardcover with illustrated dust jacket. First edition of this remarkable photography book combining images by Henriette Grindat with a poetic text by Mimica Cranaki, dedicated to the Mediterranean. A leading figure in postwar Swiss photography, closely associated with Albert Camus, René Char, and Surrealist circles, Henriette Grindat develops here a deeply personal vision of the Mediterranean landscape. Far from mere tourist reportage, the photographs explore shorelines, cliffs, harbors, reflections on the water, mountain ranges, rocks, and coastal architecture through an approach that is at once graphic, dreamlike, and meditative. Texts by the Greek writer Mimica Cranaki accompany the images without commenting on them, establishing a true poetic dialogue between literature and photography. Printed with great care by Éditions Clairefontaine, this volume is one of the most beautiful books dedicated to Henriette Grindat and remains a benchmark of humanist and poetic photography from the 1950s. A fine copy despite slight signs of wear on the dust jacket.