History of Photography. From Talbot to Stieglitz: Masterpieces of Early Photography from the New York Public Library by Julia Van Haaften. Untitled (Friends of Photography) is a unique collaborative effort

is a unique collaborative effort that pairs the photography of Jim Alinder with the prose of National Book Award-winning author Wright Morris

Edited by Jim Alinder

yet complementary

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History of Photography. From Talbot to Stieglitz: Masterpieces of Early Photography from the New York Public Library by Julia Van Haaften. Untitled (Friends of Photography) is a unique collaborative effortThames & Hudson, 1982. 1st edition. An illustrated guide to some of the outstanding holdings at the NYPL, this volume is also invaluable for the articulate essay by the photo curator Julia Van Haaften. Photographers illustrated include William Henry Fox Talbot, Alinari, douard Baldus, Maxime Du Camp, Francis Frith; Alvin Langdon Coburn (two views of London taken for Henry James), Alexander Gardner and other Civil War views by George Barnard and