Doolittle James Etc (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Photographs (illustrator). 1st Edition. 35 Pages In Red Plastic Binder, 13" X 10 1/4" With White Plastic Comb Spine. The Book Consists Of 32 Pages Of Photographic Paper On Card, Each With A 10 1/4" X 8 3/8" High Quality Photographic Image At Top On Each Side, Documenting All Kinds Of Class Settings In The Studios And In Outside Locations, And 3 Pages Of The Same Paper Each With Four 4 3/4" Square Photographs Attached To The Pages On Each Side, Portraits Of The Teachers, For A Total Of 88 Photographs. There Is No Text Or Writing Of Any Kind Anywhere In The Book, But It Is Very Similar To A Set Of Pages In The Art Center School Of Design Archives In Pasadena, Punched For A Spiral Binding But Unbound, Having Four More Pages Than This Set, But Lacking Some Of The Photographs Present Here. Ansel Adams Is Shown Instructing Many Of The Classes, As Are Fred Archer, Clarence Bull, James H. Doolittle, Edward Kaminski, Paul Dorsey, C. K. Eaton, Otto Hulmer, A B Shore, Herman Wall And Others. The Photographs Are Very High Quality, Showing Excellent Composition And Detail. This Particular Collection Of Photographs May Be Unique, And In Any Case A Quite Rare And Desirable For Collectors Of Photography And, In Particular, The Ansel Adams Collector. Adams Developed His Zone System Technique Of Photography In 1941 While Teaching At The Art Center.

Small 8vo. pp. 4: 16: 20: 24: 20: 20: 20: 16: [40]: illustrations. Original wrappers bound in blue cloth with the name Captain R.M.S. Barrett in gilt; pencil signature of Barrett to front end paper. The first 4 pages consist of a letter to every member of the Eighth Air Force from Lieutenant General James Doolittle, the commanding officer. The army talks were restricted and issued to service personnel only except for the final issue "American Uncles" which was written by Peter Howard, political correspondent at the Daily Express. The single issue of the Royal Air Force Journal mostly concerns the US Army Air Force in Britain during the war. Scarce. I have been unable to trace any copies of the Army Talks in institutions or in commerce.