Description

Christie's East, Published 1979. Wrappers, [84] (unnumbered) pp.; 24 cm; illustrated with black-and-white plates. In Good+ condition. Illustrated wraps with a black-and-white photograph entitled "Three Asaro Mudmen" (1974) by Irving Penn on the front cover; rear cover plain with small Christie's East building illustration at lower right. Light scuffing, soiling and toning to covers; price sticker residue at bottom of front cover near spine. Binding sound (staple bound). Interior pages lightly toned but unmarked. Auction catalog for Christie's East sale number 007 "Hippo," held Friday, May 4, 1979, at 219 East 67th Street, New York. Includes works from the collection of Mr. Graham Nash (musician and noted photography collector), The Friends of Photography (Carmel, California), a Distinguished American Private Collector, now deceased, a French Private Collector, and from various sources. The title page notes "an important group of photographs by Edward Weston." Other photographers represented include Hill and Adamson, Roger Fenton, Francis Frith, Julia Margaret Cameron, Gustave Le Gray, Southworth and Hawes, Mathew Brady, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan, Carleton Watkins, Edward S. Curtis, Eadweard Muybridge, Peter Henry Emerson, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Tina Modotti, Eugene Atget, Paul Outerbridge, Man Ray, Andre Kertesz, Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Paul Strand, Robert Frank, Wynn Bullock, and Aaron Siskind, among others. Includes artist index.