Swann Galleries Auction Catalog. Photographic Literature & Fine Photographs. May 14, 2009. Sale 2180. Signed Copy Very good with a few

Very good with a few crimps on covers and slight wear along spine

Finkel provides an unvarnished window into 19th-century life while validating these early chemical prints as indispensable primary documents central to the history of American visual culture

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Swann Galleries Auction Catalog. Photographic Literature & Fine Photographs. May 14, 2009. Sale 2180. Signed Copy Very good with a fewFine in wraps. 402 lots, illustrated. Prices realized list laid in, up to $72,000 for one photo by Edward Weston. Rare photobooks and collectible photographs. Photographers include Berenice Abbott; Ansel Adams; Bill Brandt; Brassai; Manuel Alvarez Bravo; Harry Callahan; Henri Cartier Bresson; Larry Clark; Mike Disfarmer; William Eggleston; Alfred Eisenstaedt; Walker Evans; Lewis W. Hine; Andre Kertesz; William Klein; Helen Levitt; O. Winston Link;