PHOTOGRAPHIC LITERATURE & FINE PHOTOGRAPHS
Catalogue Information: 411 lots | 345 with images | View lots
Date: 14 May 2009
Auction House:
Location:
104 East 25th Street
New York, NY
USA
10010
Phone: 212.254.4710
Fax: 212 979 1017
Email: swann@swanngalleries.com
Viewing Notes:
Exhibition & Sale Schedule: Sale 2180 - Photographic Literature & Fine Photographs - begins at 10:30am in New York on Thurs, May 14. All material in Sale 2180 on display at our premises in New York City, 104 East 25th Street, as follows - Sat, May 9: 10am to 4pm - Mon, May 11: 10am to 6pm - Tues, May 12: 10am to 6pm - Wed, May 13: 10am to 6pm - No exhibition on day of sale.
Lot 1: FASSBENDER, ADOLF. Pictorial Artistry: The Dramatization of the Beautiful in Photography.
FASSBENDER, ADOLF. Pictorial Artistry: The Dramatization of the Beautiful in Photography. Illustrated with 40 rich, hand-pulled gravure reproductions of Fassbender's handsome photographs. Folio, spiral-bound gilt-lettered cloth boards, corners bum [...more]
Lot 2: (GILMAN COLLECTION.) Photographs from the Collection of the Gilman Paper Company.
(GILMAN COLLECTION.) Photographs from the Collection of the Gilman Paper Company. By Pierre Apraxine. Foreword by Howard Gilman. With plates by Richard Benson. Sumptuously illustrated with 199 gravure reproductions of photographs now in the coll [...more]
Lot 3: COBURN, ALVIN LANGDON. Men of Mark.
COBURN, ALVIN LANGDON. Men of Mark. Illustrated with 33 tipped-in photogravure reproductions of Coburn's portraits of well-known figures. Tall 4to, linen-backed gilt-lettered cloth, small areas of soiling; endpapers just slightly discolored; with [...more]
Lot 4: COBURN, ALVIN LANGDON. London.
COBURN, ALVIN LANGDON. London. With 20 hand-pulled photogravures of Coburn's elegant views of London. Folio, 1/2 calf gilt-lettered boards, rebacked, light overall soiling, rubbing to corners. Roth 38; Hasselblad 50; Auer 100. first edition. L [...more]
Lot 5: (STIEGLITZ, ALFRED.) Stieglitz Memorial Portfolio, 1864-1946.
(STIEGLITZ, ALFRED.) Stieglitz Memorial Portfolio, 1864-1946. Edited by Dorothy Norman. With 18 reproductions of Stieglitz's photographs, accompanied by tributes from steichen, strand, cartier-bresson, weston, and others. Folio-size black boards, [...more]
