Photography Auction Catalog. Important Nineteenth & Twentieth Century Photographs and Related Material. Auction #5. April 29, 1978. Argus, Ltd., New York. Aperture Magazine he captured subjects who were

he captured subjects who were unaware they were being photographed

emphasizing light

95 pages plus 10 pages of ads

the monograph elevates the photographs by pairing them with personal commentary

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Photography Auction Catalog. Important Nineteenth & Twentieth Century Photographs and Related Material. Auction #5. April 29, 1978. Argus, Ltd., New York. Aperture Magazine he captured subjects who wereWraps, near fine with signature of previous owner and prices realized sheets laid in. 559 lots, with many illustrated. Includes examples from many of the leading figures in the history of photography. Among the highlights of this sale, presented by Argus, which is described as the first auction house devoted exclusively to the sale of photographs and related material, were photographs by William Henry Fox Talbot, Louis Jacques Mand Daguerre, Gustave