Now available in paperback, this book won the International Center of Photography's Infinity Award for the Best Photographic Publication of 1989. Over 400 landmark photographs--famous images as well as newly discovered material never before exhibited or published--represent the work of over 200 photographers from public and private collections throughout the world. 198 color and 252 duotone illustrations.
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Now available in paperback, this book won the International Center of Photography's Infinity Award for the Best Photographic Publication of 1989. Over 400 landmark photographs--famous images as well as newly discovered material never before exhibited or published--represent the work of over 200 photographers from public and private collections throughout the world. 198 color and 252 duotone illustrations.
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Seller's Description:
Very Good. Size: 192x20x156; This over-sized softcover has a tight light green spine. The covers are clean. Book is printed in landscape size with large, black and white illustrations. Pages appear bright and unmarked. We ship FAST!
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Fine in near fine jacket. Replete with 198 color and 252 duotone illustrations. 510 pages. Thick oblong 4to, beige cloth, d.w. (spine sunned). Boston: Bulfinch/National Gallery of Art/Chicago Art Institute, (1989). First edition. A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Small Oblong Folio. 9.5" x 12" 510pp, 198 color illustrations, 252 duotone illustrations. Tan cloth boards, silver lettering on spine. Book features sharp, square corners and clean, unmarked pages. Binding is tight, spine straight. Minor rubbing/shelf wear at bottom fore-edge, foxing spots on the top-edge. Gray dust jacket with black and white photo boxed in center, white/cream type. Jacket is bright and crisp. Volume commemorates major show at National Gallery of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Publisher:
Little, Brown and Co., in association with the National Gallery of Art...
Published:
1989
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
11483685259
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First edition. Oblong quarto. xviii, 510pp. Hundreds of reproductions. List of works exhibited, artist's bibliographies, bibliography, glossary and index. Beige cloth. A very fine copy with cover fading to pictorial dust jacket. Based on an exhibit at the National Gallery and the Art Institute. This handsome work celebrates the development of the art of photography from 1859 to 1989. Included, with excellent descriptive captions, are 198 color (sepia) and 250 duotone landmark images taken throughout the period. Also includes illuminating essays by each of the editors: Inventing Photography by Joel Snyder; The Curious Contagion of the Camera by Sarah Greenough; Ephemeral Truths by David Travis; and Beyond the Photographic Frame by Colin Westerbeck.
