50 Photographs...
by WESTON, Edward
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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London, London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York, Duell Sloan & Pearce Publishers, 1947. . First edition, number 1064 of 1500 copies initialled by Edward Weston on a slip of paper mounted on the justification leaf, as issued; 4to (304 x 233 mm, 12 x 9 ¼ in); black-and-white photographs printed in offset, texts by Merle Armitage, Donald Baer, and Robinson Jeffers,design by Merle Armitage, minor toning to edges; cloth-backed printed paper-covered boards, titles stamped to spine in silver, bottom edges of boards rubbed, spine leaning, printed dust-jacket, toned, lightly worn, small chip to top edge and to head and foot of spine, a couple of short tears, split to front panel fold at head, a very good copy; [xxii], 16, [112].
Edward Weston selected these fifty photographs himself, 'fifty of my favorite photographs chosen because they have lived well and because they have not been reproduced... in book form before... a well balanced selection from various periods and approaches, and from a wide range of subject matter.' It includes all of the genres in which Weston worked: landscapes, nudes, still lifes, and portraits, and ends with a portrait of Weston taken by his son Cole in Point Lobos in 1946.
The Book of 101 Books pp128-131; The Open Book pp150-151.
Edward Weston selected these fifty photographs himself, 'fifty of my favorite photographs chosen because they have lived well and because they have not been reproduced... in book form before... a well balanced selection from various periods and approaches, and from a wide range of subject matter.' It includes all of the genres in which Weston worked: landscapes, nudes, still lifes, and portraits, and ends with a portrait of Weston taken by his son Cole in Point Lobos in 1946.
The Book of 101 Books pp128-131; The Open Book pp150-151.
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- Bookseller
- Shapero Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 110925
- Title
- 50 Photographs...
- Author
- WESTON, Edward
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- New York, Duell Sloan & Pearce Publishers, 1947.
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