Lot 201
Photo-club de Paris
Première Exposition d'Art Photographique, Paris 1894
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 07 February 2024 from 10:00 GMT
Description
Paris: Photo-club de Paris, 1894. First edition, one of 470 numbered copies on papier blanc du Marais from the total edition of 500, folio (40.2 x 28.2cm), original wrappers, [10] pp., 66 heliogravures on 56 sheets, printed in various colour tints, with captioned tissue-guards tipped in, wrappers spotted, tissue-repairs to spine, small abrasion to front wrapper, stitching strained in places, plates 2 and 3 loose, spotting to text-leaves, light spotting to plates margins, tissue-guard for plate 28 loose
Footnote
Founded in 1894 by Robert Demachy and Constant Puyo, the Photo-club de Paris was the French equivalent of the Camera Club of New York and the Linked Ring in London, associations of photographers dedicated to the emergent philosophy of pictorialism, which promoted photography as a fine art rather than purely as a means of documenting reality. This overview of their first exhibition includes photographs by leading figures including Alfred Stieglitz, James Craig Annan and Rudolf Eickemeyer Jr, and numerous others. Rare in commerce.