Photo-Club de Paris
Deuxième Exposition d'Art Photographique
£693
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 19 June 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
Paris: Photo-Club de Paris, 1895. First edition, one of 470 numbered copies on papier blanc du Marais, folio (40.5 x 28cm), original printed wrappers, [14] pp., 58 heliogravure plates from photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, James Craig Annan and numerous others, printed in various tints, each with tipped-in tissue-guard with printed caption, wrappers slightly soiled, spotting to text, variable light spotting to plate margins, stitching split between plates 8 and 9, plate 39 with tear to tissue-guard
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. A copy of the catalogue of their first exhibition, held the previous year, was sold by Lyon & Turnbull on 7th February 2024 (lot 201). Rare in commerce.