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Steichen: The Master Prints 1895-1914, the Symbolist Period
by Longwell, Dennis
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket price-clipped and shelfworn, page tops foxed.
- ISBN 10
- 0870705814
- ISBN 13
- 9780870705816
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About This Item
NY: The Museum of Modern Art. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket price-clipped and shelfworn, . page tops foxed.. 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. 0870705814 . Brown cloth with titles stamped in gilt on front boards and spine. 73 plates (6 in color) and 18 additional illustrations. Catalog of plates, selected bibliography, index to plates. Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the surviving photographs of Edward Steichen from early in his career, when he was experimenting with the relatively new medium of photography and with his personal methods of printing and reworking platinum and gum-bichromate prints. Steichen was friendly with Alfred Stieglitz during this Symbolist period and the latter devoted an entire issue of Camera Work to Steichen and featured his work in many others. Later in life, Steichen was renowned for his fashion photography and later still, for his work as a curator at the Museum of Modern Art, for which he organized the noteworthy Family of Man exhibition in 1955.; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 180 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 57373
- Title
- Steichen: The Master Prints 1895-1914, the Symbolist Period
- Author
- Longwell, Dennis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket price-clipped and shelfworn, page tops foxed.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0870705814
- ISBN 13
- 9780870705816
- Publisher
- The Museum of Modern Art
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1978
- Keywords
- 0870705814, EDWARD Steichen, PHOTOGRAPHY, PHOTOGRAPH Prints, Symbolism
- Bookseller catalogs
- Photography;
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