Content, Marjorie. Marjorie Content Photographs by Jill Quasha, et al.

W.W. Norton, 1994. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. First edition, first printing. 160 pages. Fine/fine. Profile of the artist by Quasha and essays by Ben Lifson and Richard Eldridge, and Eugeneia Parry Janis comprising 52 pages, followed by a selection of her photographs.  Marjorie Content (1895-1984) was a sensitive and active photographer for 15 years who rarely published and never exhibited her work.  She was good friends with famous artists, including Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe, playwright Maxwell Anderson, and novelist Kay Boyle.  Photographs (72) reproduced include Washington Square, New York; portraits; figure studies; Western Landscapes; and Native Americans.  This book established Marjorie Content’s reputation as a skilled art photographer of her era.