A rare original vintage Harper’s Bazaar issue from the Carmel Snow Era, an absolute Supermagazine with Alexey Brodovitch as the art director and Diana Vreeland fashion editor. Photos by Blumenfeld, Lillian Bassman, Karen Radkai, Evelyn Hofer, Naylor, Louise Dahl-Wolfe (including the cover)
Dahl-Wolfe, Louise. – Snow, Carmel. – Brodovitch, Alex. – Vreeland, Diana et:
Harper’s Bazaar September 1949: Autumn Fashions.
Harper’s Bazaar, 1949. Large magazine format in original wrappers. 254 pages. Aside from tear-out to page 137-38 (in the small ads section) complete, the spine worn but solid and overall very good copy
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“In the history of photography, that is to say the history of photography according to the art museum, color photography became an artistically viable medium around the early 1970s, with the emergence of such photographers as Stephen Shore and William Eggleston. However, in 1948 the Danish photographer Keld Helmer-Petersen prefigured their work by two decades or so…his aim was to make pictures that would only work in color, and not in black and white…he achieved his ends in a similar way to Shore or Eggleston, by concentrating on the mundane and the everyday…it deserves credit as a singular, remarkably early and largely successful attempt to make color photography work” Martin Parr & Gerry Badger in The Photobook, A History
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The original catalogue edited by Andrew Roth, with an afterword by Hasse Persson, essays by Simon Anderson & Ute Eskildsen and Gerhard Steidl, conversation with Philip Aarons and contribution by Robert Frank. The exhibition catalogue presents (in photos) more than 130 of the most significant examples of the photobook . “the photographic book from 1878 to the present. A unique art form in their own right, photography books have played a major role within the photographic tradition almost since photographs were first taken”
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Ursula Schulz-Dornburg & Katharina Sattler: PALACE PIER BRIGHTON. Cologne, Verlag Studio Dumont / DuMont Buchverlag, 1976. Oblong large 4to in wraps as issued. Illustrated throughout with photographs by Ursula Schulz-Dornburg and a short text in both German and English by Sattler. A little wear to spine ends but solid, clean…
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