A Personal View: Photography in the Collection of Paul F. Walter

Pultz, John, and Walter, Paul F., and Museum of Modern Art

ISBN 10: 0870706292 / ISBN 13: 9780870706295

Published by Museum of Modern Art, NY, 1985

About this Item

First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1985, first printing. 4to., 9 1/2" x 11", 134pp., illustrated with 70 plates and 19 reproductions. Brown cloth with gilt titles. Fine in very good dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 009958

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Personal View: Photography in the Collection of Paul F. Walter
• Publisher: Museum of Modern Art, NY
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0870706292
• ISBN 13: 9780870706295
• Binding: Hard
• Edition: 1st
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photography

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Synopsis

A nice collection of 19th-century photography with some early 20th-century examples. The catalogue for an exhibition at MoMA, NYC. Preface by John Szarkowski; essay by John Pultz. 136 pages; 70 duo-toned b&w plates + 19 text illustrations; 9.25 x 10.75 inches.

From Library Journal

This addition to the literature celebrating fine private photographic collections presents 70 black-and-white images reproduced, one to a page, in luscious duotone. One finds images of India, Second Empire France, and recognized masterworks from the early 20th century. Pultz's essay surveys photographic connoisseurship and the way in which certain personal perceptions have informed private acquisition, ultimately enlarging our view of photohistory. Yet from this beautiful but indistinctive selection of photographs one does not get a strong sense of the content of Walter's ``vision.'' While the book does not break new ground, the deluxe presentation and the useful biographical and critical notes on the plates recommend it for photography and art collections. Ann Copeland, Drew Univ. Lib., Madison, N.J.
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