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Photographs.

Introduction by Harold Rosenberg.

Stock Code 110795

New York City, Horizon Press, 1959

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Aaron Siskind's first monograph, a presentation copy inscribed: 'Cora in love / Aaron / 3/13/61!

Cora Ginsburg was a scholar and dealer who specialised in museum-quality antique costumes and textiles. Her mother, Bertha Kling, had met Aaron Siskind during a camping trip in upstate New York in the 1920s, and she and her family remained friends with Siskind for decades. From 1950, Cora worked with her husband Benjamin Ginsburg at his family's antiques firm in Manhattan, where she dealt with textiles, needlework, ceramics, silver, and brass. When her husband retired in 1982, she opened a gallery on the Upper East Side called Cora Ginsburg LLC. She did much to develop the field of collecting costumes and was a consultant to Colonial Williamsburg, the Fashion Institute of Technology, and other major institutions.

First edition, inscribed in black ink on front free endpaper; 4to (331 × 254 mm, 13 x 10 in); black-and-white photographs printed in relief halftone, design by Ivan Chermayeff, light handling marks and minor toning to edges, f; tan endpapers, black cloth-covered boards, titles stamped in silver and red on spine and in silver on upper side, upper side top corner lightly bumped, photo-illustrated dust-jacket, printed in black and red, front panel lightly toned and rubbed, blocking showing through as usual, light wear to edges, creasing and moderate area of abrasion to rear panel, several small chips, head and foot of spine and flap-folds strengthened on verso, an excellent copy in a very good dust-jacket; [112]pp.

The Book of 101 Books pp152-5; The Photobook: A History I, p250; The Open Book pp180-1.
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Photographs.

SISKIND, Aaron.

Stock code: 110795

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