Photobiography

Odhams, London, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Cecil Beaton – photography. 254 pages including frontispiece and 60 pages of photogravure illustrations, with a complete list of illustrations appearing on pages 7 & 8. The edges of the text block are Fox, but there is no real penetration into the margins of the book. Previous owner's neat name stamp at the top right of the front free end page, no other damage to report. The dust jacket is rubbed across both top and bottom edges, chip out of the top left side of the front panel tear and bottom right and bottom left of the rear panel, rubbing to the corners et cetera et cetera now protected. "Today we have become so accustomed to photographic flattery that, unless the photographer has resorted to the basic use of wholesale retouching on the negative, thereby losing the quality of truthfulness in his pictures, we feel the camera has erred on the side of cruelty. We are so accustomed to the over-retouching of 2nd rate photographers that we seldom believe in the literal accuracy of commercial photographs and we refuse to admit that the lady holding the toothbrush and smiling can have had any real existence." Page 75. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Cecil Beaton – photography. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Photography. Inventory No: 0268425. .