Book# 30852

Frear, William

Five weeks in Europe. A photographic memorandum.

Auflage   500 copies
Einband   gilt-pictorial vellum backed blue cloth, all edges gilt
Illustration, Ausstattung   ill.
Medium   Buch

 

Perhaps the earliest reference to the newly invented Kodak camera and its fledgling relationship with tourism. Frear refers to his picture-taking as "taking Kodaks." A handsome private production with 16 photogravure plates, most containing 6 circular Kodak-size images, and one full-page gravure of Frear. For a biography of the author see www.schenectadyhistory.org/families/hmgfm/frear.html -. - Nur Kurztitelaufnahme 06.2006.
Cat. auction Swann Galleries, New York, 18.05.2006 (sale 2080, lot 397): Estimate 300-400 $ (cb. soiled, edgewear; front hinge starting).
Photographie 20. Jahrh. Reisephotographie Monographie Europa 

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