Title: Photo-Greger's Guidebook
Item description:
Notes: The item consists of 2 parts: half is a guide for photo amateurs, here also small illustrations from photographs of mainly well-known photographers, the second half is a lot of technical information about cameras and other photographic equipment and photographic materials with prices and illustrations of objects.
- Kazimierz Greger (3.02.1887 Inowrocław - 23.10.1967 Warsaw) Polish photographer-documentarian, popularizer of photography, merchant, publisher. He graduated from economic studies in Berlin and did his photographic apprenticeship in Dresden and Wroclaw. From 1910 he was a partner in the store Greger E. & Co. in Poznan, then ran the company independently until 1939. During the Greater Poland Uprising he took numerous documentary photographs. The company traded in photographic equipment and supplies on a large scale, published patriotic postcards and, in 1932-1939, the respected professional magazine "Photographic News", in addition to the popular annual guide-catalog "Greger's Photo Guide". In 1939 he was deprived by the Germans of his company in Poznan, retaining only a photographic store in Warsaw. After the war he lived in Krakow, Wroclaw and Warsaw; see Strzałkowski 2017 (Lexicon of photographers) p. 183 and other materials
Condition:
Binding and a few pages with folds, binding quite badly damaged, block slightly damaged and stained with a slight trace of flooding otherwise block clean and without defects, no entries or stamps. Item in at least good condition
Grading of state of preservation:
- perfect condition: (6) no defects, no signs of use, like new
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- nice: very good condition (5), very slight, basically insignificant defects
- quite nice: condition - very good (-5), insignificant, insignificant defects
- more than good: condition between very good and good (4/5), fairly insignificant, not very significant defects
- at least good: condition at least good (+4), not very significant defects
- good: condition of good (4), fairly significant defects
- less than good: condition -good (-4), significant defects
- more than sufficient: condition between good and sufficient (3/4), very significant defects
- at least sufficient: condition at least sufficient (+3), fairly poor condition, extremely significant defects, almost destructive
- Sufficient: sufficient condition (3), poor condition, major defects in the card, basically destruct
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