Edited Peter Palmquist (5 results)
Capturing Light: Masterpieces of California Photography, 1850-2000
Johnson, Drew Heath (Edited by); Heyman, Therese Thau (Foreword by), and Palmquist, Peter E., et al. (Essays by)
Language: English
Published by Oakland Museum of California; W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., Oakland and New York 2001
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Maria, CA, U.S.A.LEFT COAST BOOKS
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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. Pr…ofusely 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.
Dassonville: William E. Dassonville, California Photographer (1879-1957)
[Dassonville] Palmquist, Peter; edited by Susan Herzig and Paul Hertzmann
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- First Edition
Seller: Eureka Books, Eureka, CA, U.S.A.Eureka Books
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Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. William Dassonville was a leading art photographer in California during the early part of the 20th century. His artistry influenced Ansel Adams, Edward Weston and many other leading exponents of artis…tic photography. This first book on Dassonville includes a beautiful portfolio; essay by the leading authority on California photography; comprehensive bibliography; exhibition checklist; appendices with articles by Dassonville; index, etc.
Published by Carl Mautz Publishing, 1995., Nevada City, California 1995
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, GREENCASTLE, PA, U.S.A.BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA
Contact seller5-star seller[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.
More imagesPublished by Midmarch Arts, New York 1989
- Softcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Gibbs Books, Buffalo, NY, U.S.A.Gibbs Books
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 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 tr…ue 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. Various Photographers (illustrator). Signed by Author(s). Book.
Published by The California State Library Foundation, Sacramento, California 1996
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- First Edition
Seller: Samuel H. Rokusek, Bookseller, Pleasant Prairie, WI, U.S.A.Samuel H. Rokusek, Bookseller
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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.
