Title: Pictorial Photography – portfolio with 14 signed original photographs Author: Mortensen, William Place: [No place] Publisher: Date: [c.1935] Description: Fourteen gelatin silver print sepia-tone photographs by William Mortensen each signed and titled in pencil by the photographer in the lower margin. 25.5x20.5 cm. (10x8") including margins. Loose in original black cloth portfolio folder, photographic pictorial cover label titled Pictorial Photography by Mortensen. The photographs include "Preparation for the Sabbath"; "No No Hana"; "Adolito"; "Market Girl"; "Galileo" (not titled in pencil but as part of the image); "Myrdith"; "Waiting"; "Nude Study"; "Bust"; "Give Us This Day"; "Patricia"; "Flemish Maid";"Thunder"; and "Wind." Only one record for the portfolio is found in OCLC/WorldCat, at Amherst College, and it contains twenty prints; there are auction records for only two copies since 1975, per American Book Prices Current, and one of those had ten prints, the other twenty. Lot Amendments Condition: Portfolio starting to split along front joint; a few prints slightly discolored in the margins; very good or better. Item number: 229363
Title: Pictorial Photography – portfolio with 14 signed original photographs Author: Mortensen, William Place: [No place] Publisher: Date: [c.1935] Description: Fourteen gelatin silver print sepia-tone photographs by William Mortensen each signed and titled in pencil by the photographer in the lower margin. 25.5x20.5 cm. (10x8") including margins. Loose in original black cloth portfolio folder, photographic pictorial cover label titled Pictorial Photography by Mortensen. The photographs include "Preparation for the Sabbath"; "No No Hana"; "Adolito"; "Market Girl"; "Galileo" (not titled in pencil but as part of the image); "Myrdith"; "Waiting"; "Nude Study"; "Bust"; "Give Us This Day"; "Patricia"; "Flemish Maid";"Thunder"; and "Wind." Only one record for the portfolio is found in OCLC/WorldCat, at Amherst College, and it contains twenty prints; there are auction records for only two copies since 1975, per American Book Prices Current, and one of those had ten prints, the other twenty. Lot Amendments Condition: Portfolio starting to split along front joint; a few prints slightly discolored in the margins; very good or better. Item number: 229363
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