ANDREW Elist 45: Recent AquisitionsPHOTOGRAPHY 1 Elist 45: Recent Aquisitions ART CAHAN LITERATURE BOOKSELLER, LTD AMERICANA Terms: All items are offered subject to prior sale. A phone call, email or fax insures availability. Shipping and insurance charges are additional. Returns are accepted for any reason within ten days of receipt; we request notification in advance. All items must be returned in the exact condition in which they were received. Library and Institutional billing requirements will be accommodated. Customers new to us are requested to send payment in advance or provide references. For your convenience we also accept payment by Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and PayPal. Ohio customers will be charged the applicable sale tax. Overseas customers please note: all items will be shipped via insured priority airmail unless otherwise requested. A statement will be sent under separate cover and we request payment in full upon receipt. We accept payment by bank transfer, a check drawn upon a U.S. bank in dollars, or via credit card. This list represents just a small portion of our stock. If there are specific items you are seeking, we would be pleased to receive your desiderata. We hope you will keep in mind that we are always pleased to consider fine individual items or entire collections for purchase. To receive our future E-Lists and other notifications, please send us your email address so we can let you know when a new list is available at our website, cahanbooks.com. PO Box 5403 • Akron, OH 44334 • 330.252.0100 Tel/Fax [email protected] • www.cahanbooks.com 1. [ANNUAL - JAPANESE] ASAHI CAMERA ANNUAL 1956. [Tokyo: Asahi Shimbun Sha], 1956. First edition. Small 4to., 51, [1] pp., with 20 leaves of adverts., 4 pp. of captions in English and Japanese, 10 color and 134 b&w plates from photographs. Printed paper over boards, with the color illustrated dust jacket. Slight bump at the lower spine, and moderate wear to the dust jacket. A very good copy. $125.00 Includes photographs by Ihea Kimura, Yoshiharu Fukuhara, Masahisa Fukase, Yoshio Watanabe, Ken Domon, Hiroshi Hamaya, et al. [email protected] http://www.cahanbooks.com Specializing in Rare and Out-of-Print Photographic Literature 2 Andrew Cahan: Bookseller, Ltd. 2. Avedon, Richard. AVEDON: PHOTOGRAPHS 1947 - 1977. NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978. First edition. Folio, 162 photos. Fine, in pictorial boards with printed acetate dust jacket. SIGNED and dated 1978, the year of publication. [with] AVEDON: PHOTOGRAPHS 1947 - 1977. September 13 - November 5, 1978. An Exhibition Made Possible by a Grant from The Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation. [NY]: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Folio, [13] pp., illustrations from b&w photographs. Near fine. Issued as the exhibition gallery checklist, it includes an essay by Rosamond Bernier and a complete list of the 184 exhibited photographs. $450.00 Published in conjunction with the retrospective exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 3. Belloc, A. [Joseph August]. LES QUATRE BRANCHES DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE: TRAITÉ COMPLET THÉORIQUE ET PRATIQUE DES PROCÉDÉS DE DAGUERRE, TALBOT, NIEPCE DE SAINT-VICTOR ET ARCHER, PRÉCÉDÉ DES ANNALES DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE ET SUIVI D’ÉLÉMENTS DE CHIMIE IT D’OPTIQUE APPLIQUÉS A CET ART. Paris: Chez L’Auteur, 1855. First edition. 8vo., li, 416 pp., photolithographic frontis with tissue guard, large folding plate (“Tableau Synoptique des Substances Chimiques Employées en Photographie: Daguerréotypie, Talbotypie, Niepçotypie, Archérotypie and Papiers Positifs”). Contemporary quarter calf and marbled paper over boards, gilt title and decorative devices and rules on spine, with S.F.P. in gilt at the bottom (Société Française de Photographie) and shelf numbers in gilt on the calf portion of the front cover. A remnant of a printed label is affixed to the first blank endpaper; the previous owner, A. Bisey, whose large collection was acquired by the S.F.P., has marked this copy with his small neat stamp in the blank margin of the half-title page and his signature and label in the margin of the title page,. A very good and bright copy. $1,750.00 Auguste Belloc, born in Paris in 1800, was a portrait miniaturist and watercolor painter. By 1851, Belloc was making portraits with the daguerreotype and calotype processes. He was one of the founding members of the Société Française de Photographie. In the mid 1850’s, he was inventing, manufacturing and selling photographic supplies and equipment, which he continued until his death in 1868. In 1869, Marconi reproduced and published Belloc’s exquisite nudes, which were deemed pornographic at the time. The above listed volume is important as both a theoretical and historical account of the earliest photographic processes; it includes a beautifully produced portrait frontispiece by the photolithographic process which he discusses in the preface. Bellier de la Chavignerie, Manuel Bibliographie du Photographe Francais, 1863, No. 82. Roosens and Salu fail to locate this first edition of this tile but do list the slightly revised 1858 edition, COMPENDIUM DES QUATRE BRANCHES..., No. 4244. PO Box 5403 Akron, OH 44334 330.252.0100 Tel/Fax Elist 45: Recent Aquisitions 3 4. Blumenfeld, Erwin. ERWIN BLUMENFELD. Daniela Palazzoli, editor. Milano: Gruppo Editoriale Electa; Distributed in the USA and Canada by Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., New York, 1982. First edition. Folio, (3) pp., 12 full-page loose b&w plates from photographs, with tissue guards. The text is creased at the blank upper tip; all contained in the publisher’s four-point black card portfolio with printed label and white card slipcase. A near fine copy. $125.00 Blumenfeld (1897-1969) was born in Berlin and immigrated to America in 1941. He was hired by Harper’s Bazaar and opened a studio that he shared with the photographer Munkacsi. Blumenfeld made his reputation with his semi-nude and surrealist photos. The text includes a brief essay by Inge Feltrinelli and a short chronology. 5. Blumenfeld, Erwin. EYE TO I: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A PHOTOGRAPHER; Translated by Mike Mitchell and Brian Murdoch. [NY]: Thames and Hudon, 1999. First U.S. edition. 8vo., 384 pp., b&w plates from photographs. A tiny bruise to the upper board tips and light toning to the text; else near fine. $25.00 The autobiography of Erwin Blumenfeld (1897-1969) who was born in Berlin and immigrated to America in 1941. He was hired by Harper’s Bazaar and opened a studio that he shared with the photographer Munkacsi. Blumenfeld made his reputation with his semi-nude and surrealist photos. 6. [BURCHFIELD] Juley, Peter A. & Son. CHARLES E. BURCHFIELD. Original vintage portrait photograph, 9 3/4 inches H [22.1 cm.] x 6 5/8 inches W [16.8 cm.] Mounted to tan board, 13 7/8 inches x 11 inches. Boldly signed by the artist in full and with his distinctive monogram beneath the image. On the reverse is the stamp of “Peter A. Juley & Son - Photographers of Fine Arts - Since 1898 - 225 West 57th Street - New York City.” Dated in ink, January 7, 1946. There is a faint indentation the width of a tread running approx. 1 1/2 inches above the subject’s right shoulder. The mount board shows slight creasing at the bottom tips, mild soil and toning; else a near fine. $1,500.00 Charles Ephraim Burchfield was an American painter and visionary artist, born in Ashtabula, Ohio 1893. His paintings and watercolors are held by most major museums, with retrospective exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Hammer Museum and the Museum of Modern Art. The firm of Peter A. Juley & Son was the among the preeminent photographers of fine art and artists in New York. Their extensive archive of over 127,000 negatives is held by the Smithsonian American Art Museum. [email protected] http://www.cahanbooks.com Specializing in Rare and Out-of-Print Photographic Literature 4 Andrew Cahan: Bookseller, Ltd. 7. Burgess, N. [Nathan] G. THE AMBROTYPE MANUAL: A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE ART OF TAKING POSITIVE PHOTOGRAPHS ON GLASS, COMMONLY KNOWN AS AMBROTYPES, ...TO WHICH IS ADDED THE PRACTICE OF THE NEGATIVE PROCESS AND POSITIVE PHOTOGRAPHS ON PAPER. New York: Daniel Burgess & Co., 1856. Second ed. 12mo., 184 pp., plus 3 adverts. Blind-stamped cloth. Light chemical stains on several pages; there is a sketch on the rear free endpaper, which has this caption: “Rough sketch of an ambrotype taken by Theo. T. Wilmerding.” The same name appears on the front free endpaper, as previous owner. Very good. Housed in a custom made cloth over boards chemise and cloth over boards slipcase with morocco label on spine. $1,000.00 Little is known of the early years of Nathan G. Burgess before he came to photography. According to Marcus A. Root, in his THE CAMERA AND THE PENCIL p.390, Burgess, on a visit to Paris in 1840, learned the daguerreian process “with one of the artisans, who had taken part in constructing Daguerre’s first sun-painting apparatus”, either from Michel Chevreul or Alphonse Giroux. By 1844, Burgess had a thriving portrait gallery at 192 Broadway in New York City, and a branch in Charleston, South Carolina. His AMBROTYPE MANUAL was first published in 1856, and quickly sold out, requiring a second edition only months later. Additional editions, with revisions and differing titles followed. His career seems to have ended in 1862. This manual presents detailed instructions and formulae and includes information regarding apparatus, the darkroom, collodion (wet and dry) processes, gelatin emulsions, platinum, carbon, etc. This second edition of his manual includes the newly created, Pearl ambrotype process. Roosens and Salu No. 241a - the first manual on the ambrotype process.