Swann Galleries - Vernacular Imagery & Photobooks - Sale 2370, Part I

SIGNED BY NUMEROUS PHOTOGRAPHERS

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(LEEWITKIN.)

A small library of books from the Library of LeeWitkin, including Making a Photograph

* La Banlieue de Paris * A Vision Shared.

Each title is inscribed to LeeWitkin from the photographers, and each an important title from the

history of photo book publishing, with numerous illustrations. 4tos and a small folio, 2 with photo-

pictorial dust jackets and the third with photo-pictorial boards. 2

FIRST EDITIONS

EACH IS SIGNED

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[1,200/1,800]

Ansel Adams. Making a Photograph, “How to Do It” Series, No. 8. Small 4to, photo-pictorial boards. First

edition, inscribed on the endpaper: “To Lee Witkin, Ansel Adams, Carmel, April 11, 1970.” Also with the

small Witkins personal Estate label.

Studio Publications, 1935.

Robert Doisneau. La Banlieue de Paris. 4to, black cloth; photo-pictorial dust jacket. Inscribed on the half-title

by Doisneau to Witkin, in the year of publication, including “avec mon amitié, fidèle.” Also with the small

Witkin personal Estate label. Denoël, (1983).

Hank O’Neal.AVision Shared,A Classic Portrait of America and Its People, 1935-1943. Small folio, white

cloth; photo-pictorial dust jacket. First edition, inscribed to Lee Witkin on the night of the opening of the

coordinated exhibition at his gallery by Russell Lee, Jack Delano, Carl Mydans, Arthur Rothstein, Marie

Vachon (widow of JohnVachon), Bernarda Shahn (widow of Ben Shahn), Barbara Morgan, and Hank O’Neal.

Also with the small Witkin personal Estate label. NewYork: St. Martin’s Press, (1976).