Photographer's Choice, Number One, Spring 1959, Henry Holmes Smith, NF

Holmes Smith, Henry (Editor), Photographer's Choice: Publication in the Service of Photographers; Number One, Spring 1959. Bloomington, Indiana: Henry Holmes Smith, 1959

 

Near Fine, 8vo, 9 1/2" x 7." White paper wrappers with staple binding. No lettering to spine. Covers have slight age toning, else pristine and intact, binding tight. Pages slightly age-toned, else pristine and intact. Unpaginated. Publication and catalog for the Photographer's Choice exhibition. Numerous photographers were represented in the show, including Ansel Adams, Wynn Bullock, Marion Carnahan, Carlotta Copron, Morris H. Jaffe, Ida Lansky, Nathan Lyons, Gerry Sharpe, Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Joseph Sterling, Minor White, and David Winsor. Contents include the following: "A Clean Sweepdown" [examination of a poem from one of Langdon Warner's publications and its meaning as related to photography]; "The Unseen Photographer: The Predicament of the Young Photographer"; "Xi Zero in Photography"; introduction to Catalogue; Catalogue [lists photographer, address, title, dimensions, and price]; text by photographers Donald Ross, David Vestal, Philip Hyde, and Eugene Meatyard, whose work was also in show; and "Analysis of a Photograph [Minor White's _The Sound of One Hand Clapping_" by Jaromir Stephany.