List, Herbert. "How They Live and Die in Naples," Herbert List photo essay, in Horizon, Vol. V, No. 7, September 1963.

With text about Naples, Italy, by film director Vittorio de Sica. Entire issue, 112 pages, more than a dozen other articles including Roman coins, India, "Back to the Nude," et al. Hardcover, VG with minor shelf wear.

Herbert List (1903–1975) was a distinguished German photographer whose work fused European Surrealism, Bauhaus classicism, and a distinctive aesthetic he termed "fotografia metafisica" (metaphysical photography). Born into a prosperous coffee-importing family in Hamburg, List studied literature and art history at Heidelberg University before picking up a camera in 1930 under the encouragement of photographer Andreas Feininger. Forced to flee Germany in 1936 due to his anti-Nazi political stance and Jewish heritage, he spent years in exile across Paris, London, and Greece,capturing classical ruins, sun-drenched male nudes, architectural still lifes, and enigmatic compositions that imbued ordinary objects with dreamlike atmosphere. After World War II, List joined Magnum Photos at the invitation of Robert Capa in 1951, contributing photojournalistic essays to major magazines like Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and Life, while also creating celebrated portrait studies of artists such as Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau, and Marc Chagall. By the mid-1960s, List largely abandoned photography to focus on collecting 16th- to 18th-century Old Master drawings, leaving behind an influential body of work preserved in major institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Pompidou, and the J. Paul Getty Museum.