Viking, 1978. Stated First Edition. 4to. 10-3/8" x 8-15/16". Brown cloth covered boards. Spine stamped in gold. Mustard colored endpapers. 529 pp. including index. Book in fine condition. / Dust jacket is a little chipped at the top of the spine. With a few tiny chips at the bottom of the spine.Overall a sturdy attractive dust jacket.

Alfred Stieglitz collected photographs with an ardor shared by few of his contemporaries, frequently boldly disregarding the work of professionals with established reputations while acquiring that of little-known photographers. His selections were highly personal, but his was an informed eye, and the pictures he began to collect in 1894, so diverse in style and subject, stand today as tangible evidence of the strides made during an era when, largely because of Stieglitz's influence, photography emerged from its status as a conjurer's trick to recognition as an art form. Between 1894 and 1910 Stieglitz acquired some 650 prints, of which 580 came to The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The artist himself made a gift of 400 in 1933. The Museum received the balance as a bequest in 1933. Among the highlights of the collection are photographs by Edward Steichen, Gertrude Käsebier, Baron de Meyer, Ansel Adams, and Eliot Porter. One of the very few collections of photographs formed by an artist of Stature, it is a touchstone for the history of the formative years of modern photography. ISBN: 0670670510 Item #2222