Kesting, Edmund. Dresden Dance of Death. With 5 photographic works. Silver gelatin prints (negative-positive montages of skeletons and images of the destroyed Dresden), verso with estate stamp and signed by K. Kesting. Hamburg, Griffelkunst, 1992. 41 x 31.5 cm. Title, 2 text leaves and 5 plates loose in original half canvas portfolio with mounted cover label and fastening straps. Griffelkunst-Wahl E 199 I-V, 1992 - "With this first complete edition of the 'Dresdner Totentanz' Edmund Kesting receives the place he deserves as a great photographer." (From the foreword). - The Dance of Death series of experimental photographic works was created in 1945-46 after the destruction of Dresden and is based by name on a Renaissance relief. - With the five photographic works from 1945-1947: Death over Dresden, Siren Alarm, Firestorm, Dead and Ruins, Dance of Death. - Photographs slightly browned and slightly wavy, otherwise in very good condition.