Photography: Venice '79

New York: Rizzoli, 1979. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First English Edition. Square 4to. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 404 pp 362 photographs with 51 in color. Translations by Sara Corcos and Rodney Stringer. A 3 month international congress sponsered by UNESCO and Venice with the International Center of Photography, New York, as artistic organizer. The 25 essays provide a panoramic view of the major photographic trends and issues of the century, especially the fundamental quarrel between those who see photography as a means of documenting the details of everyday life and the drama of great events and those who emphasize that photography is a self-sufficient art with intrinsic formal properties and expressive means. Includes chapters on Louis Hine, Francsco Paolo Michetti, Eugene Atget, Count Primoli, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, Tine Modotti, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, W. Eugene Smith, Weegee, Robert Frank, Diane Arbus, on Sam Wagstaff Collection, on dance photography, on color and on Polaroid photography, on Latin American, Japanese, contemporary European and Italian photography, and American avant-garde, as well. Price clipped, else, Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Black cloth..