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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. Some corner and edge wear. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> IT IS WITH GREAT PLEASURE that the National Gallery of Art presents Alfred Stieglitz the most comprehensive exhibition yet mounted of this photographer’s work. Although his con- tribution to the development of modern art and photography is recognized our understand- ing of Stieglitz’s photographs as works of art remains limited. His greatest images have not been forgotten in the years since his death in 1946 but there have been few opportunities to examine the full range of his work. Now since photography has assumed an increasingly important position among the arts it is especially appropriate to reevaluate the accomplish- ments of this master American photographer. In 1949 after devoting three years to the organization and distribution of her late husband’s large collection of modern art and photography Georgia O’Keeffe generously donated the “key set” of his work to the National Gallery of Art. She also put several hundred portraits of herself made by Stieglitz between 1917 and 1937 on long term loan and in 1980 added them to the original gift. Numbering approximately sixteen hundred the Gallery’s Stieglitz Col- lection includes at least one print of every image that was in the photographer’s possession at the time of his death. (MP)