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The Photograph Collector's Guide 1980
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The Photograph Collector's Guide
by
Lee D Witkin and Barbara London
• Advice from the pre-eminent
photography dealer
• Biographies and comments about the work of collectible photographers
• Lists more than 8,000 daguerreotype and photographers with dates and
locations
• Illustrated with examples of the artist's works and/or pictures of
the photographers
• Key dates, events and trends in the history of photography
• Descriptions of processes and objects, from Albertype to Woodburytype.
• Care and Restoration of Photographs
• Comprehensive entries on 234 photographers
• Limited Edition Portfolio descriptions
• Contemporary Group Exhibitions and Catalogs.
• 300 black and white illustrations, 8 color plates
• Illustrated signature examples
• . . . and much more. . . all in one book!!!
COPYRIGHT: 1979, stated first edition
PUBLISHER: New York Graphic Society
PAGES: 438 pgs measuring 8.5" x 11"
CONDITION: This hardcover book has very minor edgewear
(shelfwear) and corner bumping. No hinge cracking inside or outside at
neither the front nor back. All pages and covers are tight to the
spine. A very solid book. Pages are not aged. The dustjacket is present
and the inside front flap is not price-clipped. The dustjacket does
show general shelfwear and the edges are curling. The dustjacket,
though not in as good of condition
as the book, has done it's job and has protected the book very well.
NOTE:
The Title Page is signed by the author, Lee Witkin, in ink.
This
out-of-print book is an extremely important addition to
the literature on photography. It provides essential reference with
entries for hundreds of photographers which include biographies,
bibliographies, exhibition lists and examples of their signatures and
print values of the most important figures in photographic history,
discussions of the major questions about collecting, conservation, and
value, and explanations of the many historical photographic processes.
Never before has any one book offered such a wealth of information and
guidance - for every collector of photographs (whether you're a
student, researcher or curator), from beginner to expert. It's a source
book that was long overdue and now hard to find due to the fact that
once a Photography Collector gets one, they keep it.
Other features of the book besides the contents listed below:
• Over 8,000 daguerreotypists and other photographers,
often with brief biographical data
• Addresses of museums and galleries worldwide
• Bibliographies
• Index
• 300 black-and-white illustrations, 8 color plates, plus facsimile
signatures
Lee Witkin was a pioneer photographic gallerist in New York. This book
is an essential reference still used by collectors, researchers,
libraries, galleries and museums. Whether you are a serious collector,
need restoration / identification information or looking for
ebay deals, this book is an invaluable reference. Thousands of
photographer names appear throughout the book, from the early days
of photography to the 1970s.
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CHAPTERS:
1. Art of Collecting Photographs (pgs 2-13):
Excellent nuts-and-bolts informational chapter on many, many
different aspects of collecting photographs. Some items included are:
collecting without investing large sums of money; what to collect;
determining the category of your collection; collecting daguerreotypes;
other categories; safeguards against misrepresentation; prices;
condition; print quality; interpretation and more.
2. Collector's Chronology (pgs 14-27): 4th c. B.C to 1978:
Chronology that follows events in
photography and pinpoints certain key
events within that flow along with some items of interest to collectors
of photography. Priceless chapter in authenticating photographs.
3. Collector's Glossary (pgs 28-45):
Provides considerable background information about various
objects and processes - both common and rarer ones - as well as help in
distinguishing them. What is the difference between a daguerreotype and
an ambrotype? How do you tell a platinum print from a silver print?
What is a cyanotype or an albumen print? The facts are here.
4. Care and Restoration of Photographs (pgs 46-59):
Recommended practices may change as new information is
established. This chapter describes conditions that can seriously
damage photos, as well as the current options of care and restoration
that are available.
5. Selected Photographers: Collector's Compendium (pgs 60-275):
Features illustrated biographical profiles of 234 individual
photographers and lists hundred of others in group entries describing
major photographic themes, movement, organizations and publications.
Entries about individuals list photographer by last name or pseudonym,
followed by country of birth and life dates. Summary of photographer's
life and career is given. Every entry also contains data organized as
follows: Work (significant subjects and types of photography); Media
(processes known to by used, kind of negative is listed when known);
Availability and Price; Signature or other Identification: Portfolios;
Collections; Selected Bibliography (lists not only collectible items
such as books by the photographer, but also critical assessments and
material that is useful for reference or because it contains
illustrations of the artist's work). Numerous photographers not listed
here appear elsewhere in chapter 7.
Photographers:
Berenice Abbott * Ansel Adams * Robert Adams * Robert Adamson *
Jim Alinder * Manuel Alvarez Bravo * James Craig Annan * Thomas Annan *
Edward Anthony * Diane Arbus * Jean-Eugène-Auguste Atget *
Richard Avedon * Edouard-Denis Baldus * Lewis Baltz * George N Barnard
* Thomas F Barrow * Hippolyte Bayard * Felice A Beato * Cecil Walter
Hardy Beaton * Bernard Becher / Hilla Becher * Francis Bedford * E J
Bellocq * Ruth Bernhard * Ilse Bing * Michael Bishop * Auguste-Rosalie
Bisson / Louis-Auguste Bisson * Louis-Désiré
Blanquart-Evrard * Erwin Blumenfeld * Felix Bonfils * Edouard Boubat *
Alice Boughton * Margaret Bourke-White * Samuel Bourne * Mathew B Brady
* Bill Brandt * Brassai (Gyula Halász) * Adolphe Braun * Anne W
Brigman * Ellen Brooks * Dean Brown * Anton Bruehl * Francis Joseph
Bruguière * Wynn Bullock * Camera Work: quarterly magazine from
1903-1917 by Alfred Stieglitz * Julia Margaret Cameron * Paul Caponigro
* Etienne Carat * Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) * Henri
Cartier-Bresson * Larry Clark * Antoine Francois Jean Claudet * Lucien
Clergue * Alvin Langdon Coburn * Mark Cohen * Van Deren Coke * Marie
Cosindas * Imogen Cunningham * Edward Sheriff Curtis * Louis Jacques
Mandé Daguerre * Louise Dahl-Wolfe * Judy Dater * Bruce Davidson
* Fred Holland Day * Roy DeCarava * Jack Delano * Robert Demachy *
Adolf (Gayne) de Meyer * Paul Diamond * Lou Brown Di Giulio *
André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri * Robert Doisneau *
Elsa Dorfman * Patricia O’Connell * Kaethe Dorsch * Fëdor
Mikhailovich Dostoevski * W and D Downey * John W Draper * Frantisek
Drtikol * Maxime Du Camp * Thomas Eakins * Harold E Edgerton * William
Eggleston * Alfred Eisenstaedt * Peter Henry Emerson * Morris Engel *
Elliott R Erwitt * Frank Eugene (Frank Eugene Smith) * Frederick Henry
Evans * Walker Evans * f/64 * Farm Security Administration (FSA),
1935-1943 monumental documentation of Americans during the Depression *
fashion photographers * Andreas Feininger * Arthur H Fellig See Weegee
* Roger Fenton * Robert Whitten Fichter * Robert Frank * Gisele Freund
* Lee Friedlander * Francis Frith * Oliver Gagliani * Alexander Gardner
* William A Garnett * Arnold Genthe * Ralph Gibson * Tim N Gidal *
Laura Gilpin * Emmet Gowin * Jan Groover * Group f/64: 1930s West Coast
photographers group started by Willard Van Dyke * Betty Hahn * Gary L
Hallman * Philippe Halsman * Charles Harbutt * Josiah Johnson Hawes *
Frank Jay Haynes * John Heartfield * Robert F Heinecken * Fritz Henle *
David Octavius Hill / Robert Admonson * John K Hillers * Lewis Wickes
Hine * Evelyn Hofer * Emil Otto Hoppe * Eikoh Hosoe * Peter Hujar *
Scott Hude * William Henry Jackson * Lotte Jacobi * Frances Benjamin
Johnston * Kenneth Josephson * Yousuf Karsh * Gertrude Kasebier * Andre
Kertesz * Boris Kossoy * Josef Koudelka * George Krause * Leslie Krims
* Heinrich Kuhn * Dorothea Lange * Frederick Langenheim / William
Langeheim * Jacques Henri Lartigue * Clarence John Laughlin * Russell
Lee * Gustave Le Gray * Henry Le Secq * Helen Levitt * Widlam * George
Platt Lynes * Danny Lyon * Nathan Lyons * Man Ray * Elli Marcus * Paul
Martin * Charles Marville * Margrethe Mather * Ralph Eugene Meatyard *
Roger Mertin * Ray K Metzker * Joel Meyerowitz * Duane Michals * Tina
Modotti * Laszlo Moholy-Nagy * Barbara Morgan * Wright Morris *
Eadweard Muybridge * Carl Mydans * Nadar (Gaspard-Felix Tournachon) *
Charles Negre * Bea Nettles * Arnold Newman * Joseph Nicephore Niepce *
William Notman * Ruth Orkin * Timothy H O'Sullivan * Paul Outerbridge
Jr * Bill Owens * Marion Palfi * Bart Parker * Irving Penn * Photo
Journalists * Photo League * Pictorialists * David Plowden * Eliot
Porter * Douglas Prince * Tony Ray-Jones * Oscar Gustave Rejlander *
Albert Renger-Patzsch * Leland D Rice * Jacob August Riis * James
Robertson / Felice A Beato * Henry Peach Robinson * Walter Rosenblum *
Arthur Rothstein * Eva Rubinstein * A J Russell * Erich Salomon * Lucas
Samaras * August Sander * Napoleon Sarony * Charles R Savage * Naomi
Savage * Ben Shahn * Charles Sheeler * Stephen Shore * Camille Silvy
(de) * Aaron Siskin * Neal Slavin * Henry Holmes Smith * Keith A Smith
* W Eugene Smith * Frederick Sommer * Albert Sands / Josiah Johnson
Hawes * Edward Steichen * Ralph Steiner * Alfred Stieglitz * John
Benjamin Stone * Paul Strand * Josef Sudek * Frank M Sutcliffe * Karin
Szekessy * William Henry Fox Talbot * Edmund Teske * John Thomson *
George A Tice * Philip Trager * Arthur Tress * Jerry N Uelsmann * Doris
Ulmann * Burk Uzzle * James Van Der Zee * Roman Vishniac * Adam Clark
Vroman * Max Waldman * Todd Walker * Carleton E Watkins * Weegee * Jack
Welpott * Henry Wessel Jr * Brett Weston * Edward Weston * Clarence H
White * Minor White * Geoff Winningham * Garry Winogrand * Marion Post
Wolcott
6. Limited-Edition Portfolios (pgs 276-299):
Usually boxed sets generally offering a mini-retrospective of a
photographer's career or theme for which the person is well known for.
This chapter is the most extensive available survey of contemporary
portfolios but by no means all-inclusive. Prices at issuance and
current values [1980] listed as well as a text description of contents.
Chapter 6 Limited-Edition Portfolios (the number of portfolios
appears behind the name if more than one):
Berenice Abbott 2 * Adal Maldonado * Ansel Adams 8 * Manuel
Alvarez Bravo 2 * Weston Andrews * Diane Arbus * Eugene Atget * Richard
Avedon 2 * Morley Baer 2 * Leis Baltz 3 * Hippolyte Bayard * Herbert
Bayer 2 * Bernard Becher / Hilla Becher * Linda Benedict-Jones * Ruth
Bernhard 2 * Karl Blossfeldt * Mathew B Brady 2 * Brassai 2 * Josef
Breitenbach * Francis Bruguiere * Eugene Buechel * Wynn Bullock * Harry
Callahan * Paul Caponigro 3 * Larry Clark 2 * William Clift 2 * Alvin
Langdon Coburn * Jim Cornfield * Judy Dater * Alma Davenport * Philip
Davis * Roy DeCarava * Peter de Lory * Adolf de Meyer (Gayne) Pepe
Diniz * Mike Disfarmer * Frantisek Drtikol * Harold Edgerton * William
Eggleston 2 * Elliott Erwitt 2 * Frederick H Evans * Walker Evans 3 *
Andreas Feininger * Gisele Freund * Lee Friedlander 3 * Benno Friedman
* Ralph Gibson * William b Giles * John R Gossage * George Grosz *
David Hare * Raoul Hausmann * Florence Henri * Lewis Wickes Hine 2 *
David Hockney * Philip Hyde * Irina Ionesco * Lotte Jacobi * Kenneth
Josephson * Marcia Keegan * Gyorgy Kepes * Andre Kertesz * Chris Killip
* William Klein * George Krause * Leslie Krims * Kipton Kumler *
Jacques Henry Lartigue 2 * Brian Lav * Erica Lennard * Jerome Liebling
* Rene Magritte * Reginals Marsh * Margrethe Mather * Ralph Eugene
Meatyard * Hector M Mendez Caratini * Joel Meyerowitz * Duane Michals 2
* Roger Minick 2 * Lisette Model * Inge Morath * Barbara Morgan *
Alphonse Marie Mucha * Nickolas Muray * Eadweard Muybridge * Nadar *
Ikko Narahara * Paul Nash * Arnold Newman * bill Owens * Olivia Parker
* James Pearson * Walter Peterhans * Donato Pietrodangelo * Ave Phildas
* Eliot Porter 2 * Tony Ray-Jones * Lilo Raymond * Albert
Renger-Patzsch * Eric Renner * Murray Riss * Henry Peach Robinson *
Werner Rhode * Arthur Rothstein * Eva Rubinstein * Steve Salmiere *
August Sander * John P schaefer * Schools: Apeiron Workshops 2; Art
Institute of Chicago; Center for Photographic Studies; Los Angeles
Center; Rhode Island School (RISD); Rochester Institute (RIT); San
Francisco State University * Friedrich Seidenstucker * Michel Seuphor *
Stephen Shore * Aaron Siskind * Henry Holmes Smith * W Eugene Smith *
Ralph Steiner * Lou Stoumen * Paul Strand 2 * Karl F Struss * Leonard
Sussman * Steven Szabo * William Henry Fox Talbot * George A Tice 5 *
Arthur Tress * Jerry N Uelsmann * James Van Der Zee * Willard Van Dyke
* Michel Vignes * John Vink * Roman Vishniac * Brett Weston 10 * Edward
Weston 4 * Minor White 2 * Geoff Winningham * Garry Winogrand * Women's
Campaign Fund * Max Yavno * Piet Zwart
7. Contemporary Group Exhibitions and Catalogues (pgs 300-312):
Chapter lists some of the many shows of contemporary photography
mounted in recent years.: Photograph as Metaphor; Expanded Imagery;
Social Landscape; New Documentary; General. Within each category, the
shows are listed chronologically and numbered followed by a list of the
exhibitors.
Appendixes:
A. Daguerreotypists (pgs 313-324):
List of some one 1,000 names aimed to include as many known
daguerreotypists (and firms) as possible. See scan below.
B. Additional Photographers (pgs 325-388): Often a collector
comes across an old photograph whose photographer name is unfamiliar.
One might also purchase a relatively recent photograph but still find
it hard to locate data about the person who made it; many
photographers, especially young one, have yet to be recognized in
print. For the collector in such a predicament, the following list of
thousands of photographers may help by providing reassurance that some
documentation exists. This list (which also includes many well-known
photographers), was compiled from: photographs, reliable written
histories, directories issued by photographic organizations,
exhibitions and auction catalogues, magazines, newspapers, annual, etc.
Only basic information, when known, about place and dates of activity
has been included. This appendix does not include photographers
featured in chap. 5 as main entries or in group entries.
Daguerreotypists in appendix A, unless known to have used later
photographic media in addition to the daguerreotype, are also excluded.
See scan below.
C. Museums, Galleries, Auctions Houses, Exhibition Spaces: US;
Outside the US; Collection Abbreviations (pgs 389-411): Addresses form
list of selected locations, worldwide, for viewing, study, or
purchase of photographic works. List includes: museums, galleries,
auction houses and exhibition spaces.
General Bibliography:
Histories and Surveys; Color Photography; Current Periodicals
(pgs 419-422): List used in compiling this book as well as many other
sources recommended for further reading.l There are three categories:
Histories and Surveys, Color Photograph, and Current Periodicals.
Besides a ton of names that appear in the index, the following
list is a very short sample of more items in the book:
albertype * album * albumen on glass * albumen print * ambrotype
* aristotype * autochrome * autotype * Blitzlichtpulver (flash light
powder) * blueprint * boudoir photograph * bromoil print * cabinet
photograph * calotype * carbon print * carbro print * care and
restoration of: ambrotypes; books; color photographs, daguerreotypes,
film negatives, glass-plate negatives, paper prints, tin-types, unusual
photographic processes * carte de visite, entry illustrated; tax stamps
*chromoscope * cliché-verre * collodio-albumen * collodion dry
plate * collodion wet plate * collotype * color photographs, care and
restoration * color processes * combination print * composite print *
conservation, methods * contact print * copy print * corona-discharge
photograph * crystallotype * Curt-tone * cyanotype daguerreotype; care
and restoration; cleaning; defined, and entry illustrated * dallastype
* damage to photographs; by careless handling; by destructive attempts
at restoration; by exposure to light; by extreme heat and humidity; by
insects; by pollutants; by residual chemicals *developing-out paper
(DOP) * DOP (developing-out paper) * dry plate * dye coupler print *
duotone * dye transfer * enlargement * etched daguerreotype * Exposure
* ferroprussiate process. See cyanotype * ferrotype * film:
reprocessing (b/w) * film negatives, care and restoration * flash light
powder
Full-page color plates:
Alfred Stieglitz: Marie Rapp-Boursault * Dean Brown: Ice Wings *
Eliot Porter: Sculptured Rock * Lou Brown Di Giulio: Cabbages * William
Eggleston: Election Eve * Bea Nettles: Elizabeth, Landscape and Three
Figures * Lucas Samara: Photo-Transformation * Joel Meyerowitz: New
York City
2. Collector's Chronology page
3. A Collector's Glossary
5. Selected Photographers
5. Selected Photographers
5. Selected Photographers
6. Limited-Edition Portfolios
Appendix A.
Daguerreotypists - (pgs 313-324)
Appendix B. Additional Photographers - (pgs 325-388)
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