Edited Peter Palmquist (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. Cloth, xiv, 366 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Good+. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Front free endpaper (blank) removed. Fine DJ. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. A massive coffee-table book. Profusely illustrated. *** "From rare daguerreotypes of gold prospectors to Edward Weston's intimate portraiture, from glamour shots of Hollywood starlets to Dorothea Lange's arresting Dust Bowl imagery, Capturing Light: Masterpieces of California Photography, 1850 to the Present offers a survey of the master photographers who have shaped the consciousness of a state - and America as a whole - for more than a century and a half. Drawn from the extensive collections of the Oakland Museum of California by curator Drew Heath Johnson, these enduring images offer a portrait as diverse as the state itself." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: FOREWORD, by Therese Thau Heyman; INTRODUCTION & ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, by Drew Heath Johnson PORTFOLIO: The Pioneers 1850-1900; The Pioneers: Landscape and Studio, by Peter E. Palmquist; PORTFOLIO II: Mood and Symbolism 1900-1935; California Pictorialism, by Naomi Rosenblum; PORTFOLIO III: Seeing Straight 1925-1945; Starting from Pictorialism: Notable Continuities in the Modernization of California Photography, by Sally Stein; PORTFOLIO IV: California Dreaming 1945-1980; A New and Different Kind of Art, by Andy Grundberg; PORTFOLIO V: Toward the Millennium 1980-2000; EPILOGUE; NOTES TO THE PLATES; BIOGRAPHIES; INDEX. Size: 4to.

[CALIFORNIA] [GOLD MINING]. First softcover edition. 8vo. Originally published as a hardcover edition in 1873. Perfect bound maroon pictorial stiff wrappers, vii [1], 55 [1] pp., frontispiece, acknowledgement, preface, illustrated. Cowan says "These reminiscences, written for the members of the family, give a graphic picture of life in the days of the gold-seekers. Kurutz 200 says, "He was eighteen when he heard of the gold excitement and booked passage on the ship Panama headed from New York around Cape Horn. The young gold seeker described in some detail the preparations for the voyage." Fine copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Various Photographers (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1st. Edition, Only Printing 1989, Illustrated soft cover, 272 page book.This scarce signed and dated copy by Peter Palmquist ( 1936-2003 ) is signed and date on the first title page by him.A celebration of Women in photography , The Pioneers and many famous and not so famous artist. A true research book by the photographic Historian Peter Palmquist, and quite scarce to find in this condition and SIGNED . Condition : Fine with the smallest of a lower corner bump. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Full Leather. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Book has no writing or marking, xiv, 15 to 238 pages. Errata laid in at page 111. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.