Baader-Meinhof. Pictures On the Run 67-77
Zurich: Scalo, 1998. 1st Edition. Small quarto, publisher's photo-illustrated paper-covered boards, scarlet endpapers.
"We lived a sort of armed existentialism." First edition of Red Army Faction (RAF) member Astrid Proll’s photo album. A successor to the Baader–Meinhof Group, RAF was a radical Leftist organization emerging in the late 1960s in response to the German government’s refusal to address its Nazi past. Famously run predominantly by women and adhering to both Marxist and Maoist principles, the group’s forms of praxis included bombing, assassinations, kidnappings, and armed robberies, considered by most German citizens acts of terrorism (although there were and are sympathizers of the movement). Published a year after RAF officially dissolved, this book comprises photos Proll–who was a photography student before joining the guerrilla group–took of actions, victims, and its most famous members, such as Ulrike Meinhoff, Gudrun Ensslin, Andreas Baader, and Jan-Carl Raspe. Illustrated with black-and-white photos. Text in English and German. No dust jacket as issued. Original price sticker to lower board. Corners banged, some rubbing and light edgewear. Very good. Item #10421
$200.00