12 offset lithographs, printed on hand made paper. Varying sizes from 31.1 x 47.5 cm to 37.9 x 47.6 cm (69.5 x 49.5 cm), portrait and landscape formates. Each signed in pencil in the lower margin at right, numbered at left. Printed title in German, French and English, photographer's name, copyright notice and information on the edition in the lower margin at middle. In original portfolio folder, thereon printed information on the edition and numbered in pencil. Ed. 20/250. Edition DACO-Verlag, Stuttgart 2002. From the de luxe edition limited to 100 copies (from 1/250 to 100/250).
Along with photographs by Leni Riefenstahl's own hand, the portfolio contains a portrait of her as an actress in the film "Das blaue Licht" by Walter Riml, film stills from her films "Olympia" and "Tiefland", as well as photographs which were taken by cameramen and photographers on the movie set, including amongst others the photograph "The lightning of the Olympic flame" by Willy Zielke.
The motifs:
Storm over Mont Blanc - rifts in the glacier
Leni Riefenstahl: publicity still as Junta in Das blaue Licht
Leni Riefenstahl: during the filming of Tiefland
Wolve in the film Tiefland
Olympia, 1936: Gold medal winner of the men's high divers
Olympia, 1936: The lightning of the Olympic flame
Olympia, 1936: Eight meter boats crowding at the turning point
Olympia, 1936: Dive from the 10-metres-tower
Two lyre players in the Nuby village Tadoro
Njertun, the love dance of the people of Kau
Feather Star, Malduve Island
Tentacles of the giant sea anemone Stoichactis, British West Indies
