H. Prints and Photographs

2595. Steichen, Edward. A life in photography. Published in collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1963. 1 v. (unpaged) 249 illus. 63–11119 TR140.S68A25

An autobiography in which brief chapters of text are followed by reproduction of the author’s best photographs, some in color. Steichen (b. 1879) became associated with Alfred Stieglitz in 1905 and for many years produced "art" photographs characterized by blurring of focus and alteration of texture. From the beginning, however, he displayed a genius for portraits and an ability to get important people to sit for his camera. In his mid-sixties he photographed the carrier war in the Pacific; on his return he became director of the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern An, where he organized his memorable exhibition "The Family of Man." The museum has also published Steichen the Photographer (Garden City, N.Y., Distributed by Doubleday [1961] 80 p.), containing reproductions of 48 of his photographs, mostly portraits, and short essays by Carl Sandburg, Alexander Liberman, and René d’Harnoncourt.

2596. Thoreau, Henry David. In wildness is the preservation of the world. Selections & photographs by Eliot Porter. Introduction by Joseph Wood Krutch. San Francisco, Sierra Club [1962] 167 p. 62–20527 TR660.T5

A photographic essay which captures the spirit of Thoreau’s "world of American Nature," as Krutch calls it. Porter’s full-color photographs and Thoreau’s word pictures evoke the moods of New England’s shifting seasons by focusing on the detailsof nature. Not Man Apart; Lines From Robinson Jeffers (San Francisco, Sierra Club [1965] 159 p. Sierra Club exhibit format series, 10) depicts the Big Sur country in California through the poetry of Jeffers and the photographs of Ansel Adams and other west-coast photographers.