INSCRIBED BY ALFRED STIEGLITZ CAMERA WORK. Number 36. Edited by Alfred Stieglitz. Illustrated with 16 photogravures after Stieglitz's photographs, including his iconic images of New York City, as well as a plate after a Picasso drawing. 4to, original printed gray wrappers, lightly worn, backstrip perished. with stieglitz's inscription to waldo frank dated 1919 and annotated "291." New York, 1911
From Alfred Stieglitz to Waldo Frank; by descent to Frank's son. Waldo Frank was an American novelist, historian, and literary and social critic best known for his studies of Latin American and Spanish literature and culture. Frank and Stieglitz were friends for decades--a friendship well memorialized in this from Frank's 'Memoirs' (Chapter 3, pg. 64): "Stieglitz, of course, had an art of his own: although he absolutely refused to call it 'art,' to call it anything but photography. Without tricks (he abominated the touched-up negative) his work revealed--in a cloud, in a face, in a hand, the testicles of an old horse harnessed to a horsecar--the being of depth beyond the surfaces of space and time, whose experience by a people is their culture."
"The City of Ambition" "The City Across the River" "The Ferry Boat" "The Mauretania" "Lower Manhattan" "Old and New New York" "The Aeroplane" "A Dirigible" "The Steerage" "Excavating--New York" "The Swimming Lesson" "The Pool--Deal" "The Hand of Man" "In the New York Central Yards" "The Terminal" "Spring Showers, New York."
