Swann Auction Catalog. Modern Literature and 19th & 20th Century Photographic Literature. Sale 1663.June 16, 1994. Untitled (Friends of Photography) with texts by Yukio Mishima)

with texts by Yukio Mishima)

a feat of preservation that nearly failed several times due to poverty and accidents

Noel Brown

and spontaneous geometry in the physical world—proving that his lens work was an active way of "thinking" visually rather than just collecting source material

transforming what would otherwise be anonymous

Swann Auction Catalog. Modern Literature and 19th & 20th Century Photographic Literature. Sale 1663.June 16, 1994. Untitled (Friends of Photography) with texts by Yukio Mishima)Fine in wraps, except bidding form filled out on last leaf with 3 bids. 608 lots, selectively illustrated. Including books from the collection of Philip Kaplan, lots 342 608. Prices realized laid in. High lots, $25,300 for a complete run of Camera Notes, 1897 1902, and $12,650 for Camera Work No. 36 with Alfred Stieglitz photographs. Rare photobooks and magazines. Photographers: Berenice Abbott; Ansel Adams; Eugene Atget; Richard Avedon; Margaret