Author: Newhall, Nancy
Title: P.H. Emerson: The Fight for Photography As a Fine Art
Description: New York, Aperture, Inc, 1975. Hardcover. A blue-green fabric casebound book with a silver gilt design on the front cover. The title is debossed in silver down the spine. There is a glossy blue-green dust jacket with a black-and-white photograph on the front cover. The title is printed in black text both across the front cover and down the spine. The front and back free and pasted end pages are a nice canary yellow. Pages: (8), 3-266. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Contents are as follows: Part one.; P.H. Emerson : his life and the fight for photography as a fine art. The image on the ground glass ; Mr. Robinson's tea party ; Pedro Enrique ; "Emerson A.B.C.D.E.F.G." ; Rome and Reformation ; The ground glass : his country, his theme, his medium ; "Truth to nature" ; "A reformer needed" ; "Zeal and industry" ; The curious crystal ; "A bombshell dropped at a tea party" ; "Iconoclastic pen" ; "The death of naturalistic photography" ; Afterlife : 1. Acclaim ; 2. Oblivion and the strumpet --; Part two.; P.H. Emerson : his photographs accompanied by excerpts from his albums and Naturalistic photography. VG/G: The book is in great condition, with tight binding and sharp corners. There are some marks from the previous owner on the front free end page. The rest of the pages appear untouched. /The dust jacket has seen better days-- there is a tear in the bottom of the front cover, and wear to the corners and edges. There also was some sort of water damage to the top of the back cover, which ran the ink a little but did not destroy or make unreadable any text.

Keywords: Photography ; Emerson, P.H. ; ;


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