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1st printing of only 500 copies in hardcover with protected dust jacket
Parallels & Contrasts: Photographs from the Stephen White Collection. 124 photographs. Signed book The plates chronicle the vastUniversity of New Mexico Press, 1990. Illustrated wraps, fine with custom made 4 mil polyester protector. Texts by Nancy Barrett, Arthur Ollman, Helmut Gernsheim, Ben Maddow, et al. Exceptional collection of 19th and 20th century photographs of landscapes, nudes, architecture, and other genres collected by Stephen White and sold at Swann auction in 2010, twenty years after this book was published. Photographers include: Edward Weston, Bill Brandt,