May 15, 2003 - Sale 1971

Sale 1971 - Lot 7

Price Realized: $ 3,680
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
APERTURE MAGAZINE. Edited by Minor White. Group of 7 consecutive volumes, comprising 1:1 through 9:4. Together, 36 issues. Illustrated with reproductions of photographs by scores of master 20th-century photographers. 4to, cloth, photo-pictorial wrappers bound in; condition generally excellent. (San Francisco), (1952-53); (Rochester), (1953-61)

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This set was originally in the collection of the photographer and educator Henry Holmes Smith. In addition to the run, the bound volumes contain an issue of "Creative Photography" (1956) in vols. 3-4; a "C. S." exhibition catalogue in vol. 4; and an "Aperture" index for vols. 1 through 6 (1952-58) in vol. 7.