History of Photography. A Child’s Garden of Photography by Allan Porter.

Wraps, near fine with minor evidence of wear on extremities, has not been fully opened.  84 pages. Also issued as an unusual issue of Camera magazine (Switzerland) 1979, No. 12, with two pages per page that could be cut up and made into a small book.  The book offered here is with the same contents but already made into a perfect bound volume published in a limited number of copies.  It was intended as an introduction to the history of photography for children, with examples of photographs by mostly well known photographers, including some infrequently seen images. Photographers: John A. Whipple, William Henry Fox Talbot, Southworth and Hawes, Frederick Langenheim, Roger Fenton, Eugene Atget, Karl Blossfeldt, Lewis Hine, Darius Kinsey, Edward Weston, Brett Weston, Mark Power, Ansel Adams, Wynn Bullock, Josef Koudelka, Ralph Gibson, Berenice Abbott, Man Ray, Jim Bengston, Mark Cohen, Robert Frank, Bill Brandt, Andreas Feininger, Aaron Siskind, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Lisette Model, Harold Edgerton, et al. Includes one photo by Allan Porter, the editor of Camera whose own photographs were infrequently published. Business card of Allan Porter laid in. Uncommon.