A Pageant of Photography
San Francisco: Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco Museum of Art, 1940. Softcover. BW pictorial with blue/burgundy lettering block, staple-bound, 44 pages, profuse and lovely photographs. VG-, with several folds on covers and spine, wear marks to spine and shows use by many appreciative readers. Still ready for more appreciative readers--binding firm and pages clear, bright and straight. Item #127051
The book was published to perpetuate and broadcast the 1940 photgraphic show in the Palace of Fine Arts on Treasure Island, San Francisco. This scarce catalogue contains these articles: "Photography as an Art," by Beaumont Newhall, "A Statement by Edward Weston," "Photography," by L. Moholy-Nagy, "Documentary Photography," by Dorothea Lange, "Astronomical Photography," by N. U. Mayall, Lick Observatory, "The Motion Picture," by Grace L. McCann Morley, and "A Note on Color Photography," by Paul Outerbridge. Features images by the following photographers: David Octavius Hill, Matthew Brady, William H. Jackson Dr. Arnold Genthe, Edward Steichen, Paul Strand, Charles Sheeler, Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, L. Moholy-Nagy, Dorothea Lange, Berenice Abbott, Paul Outerbridge, Clarence Kennedy, Dr. Harold G.Edgerton, Margaret Bourke-White, Edweard Maybridge, Alfred Stieglitz, Brett Weston, and many others.
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