Verlag: Paris: Photo-Club de Paris, 1894
Anbieter: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, USA
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Zustand: Good. Folio. First edition, one of 470 numbered copies on papier blanc du Marais from the total edition of 500, folio (40.2 x 28.2cm), original wrappers, [10] pp., 66 heliogravures on 56 sheets, printed in various colour tints, with captioned tissue-guards tipped in.Founded in 1894 by Robert Demachy and Constant Puyo, the Photo-club de Paris was the French equivalent of the Camera Club of New York and the Linked Ring in London, associations of photographers dedicated to the emergent philosophy of pictorialism, which promoted photography as a fine art rather than purely as a means of documenting reality. This overview of their first exhibition includes photographs by leading figures including Alfred Stieglitz, James Craig Annan and Rudolf Eickemeyer Jr, and numerous others. Printers incluce L'Imprimerie Chaix, Georges Petit Gallery (supplied, of Paris), T. Fillon/LeMercier & Cie (Paris), Richard Paulussen (Vienna), James Craig Annan (Glasgow), Paul Dujardin (Paris), J. Blechinger (Austria).t69 of the photographers accepted for this first exposition were from France but the material included was highly international. There were 30 photographers from Great Britain including Scotland and the Isle of Wight; Austria had 17 followed by Belgium and Holland with ten. Nine were from America: including Emilie Clarkson, John Bullock, John Dumont, Rudolph Eickemeyer, Emma Farnsworth, Clarence Moore, William Post, Robert Redfield and Alfred Stieglitz. Works from Germany, Italy, Spain, Russia and Switzerland were hung. Algeria was represented by at least one photograph by the Frenchman Emile Frechon. The work of the deceased, but influential, British photographer Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) was acknowledged by the exposition committee members and she had an unknown number of works accepted for hanging.OCLC number 889431269; Met Watsonline record number b12671320. .
Verlag: Verdigris, (Octon), 2003
ISBN 10: 2914061129 ISBN 13: 9782914061124
Anbieter: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, USA
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Zustand: Fine. First edition. First printing of this limited deluxe edition poetic ode to a pair of pears, illustrated in lovingly executed mezzotints - with original copper plate included in the original box. Judith Rothchild's and Mark Lintott's Verdigris press, located in the south of France, produces an eclectic selection of artist's books based around a variety of texts. For Wallace Stevens's poem of pear pondering, Rothchild and Lintott have created a book that invites visual contemplation of its fruity subjects, with weight added to the text by Rothchild's deeply set mezzotints. The plate included in this deluxe copy is of one of the larger illustrations, and shows off the delicacy and precision involved in creating a mezzotint. An attractive production, presented in both English and French. 10.5'' x 11.75'' (book); 5.75'' x 5.5'' (copper plate). Original stiff paper wrappers in green, brown, and yellow. Illustrated with nine black-and-white mezzotints of pears, with three blind-embossed shapes of pears. Loose concertina textblock as issued with [20] panels, printed one side only, with tissue guards between each fold. With black-and-white mezzotint New Year's card, numbered 17/70 and signed by Rothchild and Lintott, loosely laid in. In original green, yellow, and brown clamshell box, with original copper plate mounted to rear. A touch of rubbing to wrapper joints. Sharp and clean. 10.5'' x 11.75'' (book); 5.75'' x 5.5'' (copper plate). Signed.