Karmen, Roman [Light in the Jungle: Notes of a Cameraman]. Svet v dzhunglyah. Zametki kinooperatora.

Moskva, Sovetskii pisatel’, 1957. 
8vo, 327 pp., 24 l.ill.

In original boards and pictorial dj.
In good condition, dj lightly rubbed.

Signed and inscribed by the author: 'Zhene Dolmatovskomu / drugu, bratu, ochen' dorogomu / cheloveku / Roman Karmen / Moskva iul' 1957' [To Zhenia Dolmatovsky - friend, brother, very dear person. Roman Karmen. Moscow, July 1957]. The only edition.

This photobook by Roman Karmen (1906-1978), a Soviet film director, war cinematographer, and documentary filmmaker, is dedicated to his trip to Vietnam, where he filmed the documentary 'Vietnam' (1955) over eight months in 1954. During this trip, Karmen met with Vietnamese communist leader Ho Chi Minh. He also encountered Pierre Schoendoerffer, a French film director and war reporter who had been captured and sent to a Viet Minh re-education camp following the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954. It is believed that Karmen intervened to save Schoendoerffer's life and secretly hid Schoendoerffer's film reels, which he later used in his own film.
This copy is inscribed to Evgeniy Dolmatovsky (1915-1994), a poet and popular song lyricist.

OCLC locates four copies of this edition: in the Ohio State University Library, the Cornell University Library, the National Library of Sweden and the Marshall Center Research Library (Germany).