Call Number:

PH-02048

Collection Name:

A Portfolio of Sixteen Photographs [cop.2]

Creator:

No. of Items:

16 photographs in portfolio

Span Dates:

1962

Description:

Limited edition portfolio, titled A Portfolio of Sixteen Photographs (Rochester: George Eastman House, 1962), comprised of 16 halftone photomechanical reproductions of photographs by Alvin Langdon Coburn (British, born America, 1882-1966) taken between 1904 and 1917 that are reproduced as mounted halftone prints on separate leaves. The plates are accompanied by a pamphlet that contains an introduction by Nancy Newhall (American, 1908-1974) as well as references to Henry James. The portfolio was distributed by Wittenborn (New York) in 1962. The Ransom Center holds two copies, this one being the photographer's signed presentation copy to Helmut Gernsheim dated 18 October 1963. Plate titles and dates follow.

959:0022:0001 -- G. K. Chesterton, 1904;
959:0022:0002 -- London Bridge, 1905;
959:0022:0003 -- Mark Twain, 1908;
959:0022:0004 -- Portland Place, London, 1906;
959:0022:0005 -- Court of the Hotel, 1906;
959:0022:0006 -- William Butler Yates, 1908;
959:0022:0007 -- Long Beach, California, 1911;
959:0022:0008 -- The Cloud, Yosemite, 1911;
959:0022:0009 -- The Great Temple, Grand Canyon, 1911;
959:0022:0010 -- Pillars of Smoke, Pittsburgh, 1910;
959:0022:0011 -- Station Roofs, Pittsburgh, 1910;
959:0022:0012 -- The Octopus, New York, 1912;
959:0022:0013 -- House of a Thousand Windows, New York, 1912;
959:0022:0014 -- Roofs, Paris, 1913;
959:0022:0015 -- Arnold Dolmetsch, 1916;
959:0022:0016 -- Vortograph, 1917.

Location(s):

f TR 140 C56 A3 HRC-P cop.2 (964:0130:0001-0016)
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