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Book Description Paperback. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Dust jacket condition: Very Good. Very nice clean copy. Featuring the Collection of Wm. B. Becker Nearly 200 photographs -- lavishly reproduced in duotone and full color-- create a stunning visual history of photography's first 75 years. Here are classic images of America's past: blacksmiths and goldminers, cowboys and Indians, polygamists and Presidents, the devastation of the Civil War and breathtaking scenes of natural beauty. An extensive selection of images depicts the world as Americans of the last century discovered it: exotic people and picturesque places, captured through the camera's truthful lens. Most of these photographs have never been published before; many are one-of-a-kind. PHOTOGRAPHY'S BEGINNINGS invites the reader to follow a unique series of thematic paths through the history of the medium. . .from the earliest daguerreotype portraits to the advent of practical color photography. This innovative approach presents images in the folk art tradition, penetrating portraiture, "concoctions" created in the studio and darkroom, and the precedent-shattering works of the turn-of-the-century masters. 176 pages. Seller Inventory # WB052308
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 176 pp, preface, acknowledgments, introduction, A Closer Look: New Perspectives on Photography's Past; Early Photography and Art History; The 193 Color & b&w Illustrations; Notes to the Illustrations; A Primer on Processes; Afterword. First Edition, 191989. "Nearly 200 photography, reproduced in duo-tone and full color, creating a visual history of photography's first 75 years. An extensive selection of images depicts the world as Amerians of the last century discovered it;: exotic people and picturesque places, captured through the camera's truthful lens." from the jacket flap. Not Price Clipped. Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Black cloth with gilt stamped lettering to front board and spine. Size: Oblong Quarto. Book. Seller Inventory # 002866
Book Description Hardcover. navy cloth boards w/ silver printing. 176 pgs w/ bw, sepia-toned illustrations. glossy black dustjacket w/ small illustration & white printing. A sharp, bright copy. Nearly 200 wonderful illustrations. VG+/VG (light edge wear to lower boards; bump to spine end. dustjacket scuffed & scratched w/ small tear to back spine top; small chips to spine ends). Seller Inventory # 188721