Photography as Fine Art. The Gallery of World Photography by Bryan Holme.

E.P. Dutton, 1983. First U.S. edition, previously published in Japanese. Fine in large hardcover with near fine protected dust jacket.  First edition.  208 plates with excellent reproduction quality of photographs, most of which are by well known photographers. Some images are classics while others are relatively unfamiliar. Back of the book provides Glossary of terminology and biographies of the photographers who include: Ansel Adams; Diane Arbus; Eugene Atget; Cecil Beaton; Werner Bischof; Bill Brandt; Brassai; Harry Callahan; Cameron; Paul Caponigro; Henri Cartier-Bresson; Imogene Cunningham; Thomas Eakins; Walker Evans; Francis Frith; Shinzo Fukuhara; Ralph Gibson; Lotte Jacobi; Gertrude Kasebier; Andre Kertesz; Dorothea Lange; Man Ray; Joel Meyerowitz; Laszlo Moholy-Nagy; Eadweard Muybridge; Arnold Newman; Timothy O’Sullivan; Gordon Parks; Irving Penn; Eliot Porter; Renger-Patzsch; Aaron Siskind; Edward Steichen; Alfred Stieglitz; Paul Strand; William Henry Fox Talbot; Carleton Watkins; Edward Weston; Minor White; Mehemed Fehmy Agha; Ryoji Akiyama; Manuel Alvarez Bravo; Charles Aubry; Edouard Baldus; Herbert Bayer; Felice Beato; Ruth Bernhard; Erwin Blumenfeld; Adolphe Braun; Bruguiere; Wynn Bullock; Carjat; Paul Citroen; William Clift; Coburn; Van Deren Coke; Francis Edmund Currey; E.S. Curtis; George Platt Lynes; Hoyningen Huene; Dali; Robert Demachy; Adolphe De Meyer; Frantisek Drtikol; Peter Henry Emerson; Frederick Evans; C. Famin; Andreas Feininger; Roger Fenton; Lady Filmer; Robert Frank; Shinzo Fukuhara; William Garnett; Arnold Genthe; Laura Gilpin; Emmet Gowin; Jan Groover; Ernst Haas; Wenzel August Hablik; Gingo Hanawa; Hill and Adamson; Alexander McGlashan; Gunther Hirschel-Protsch; David Hockney; Evelyn Hofer; William Henry Jackson; Diane Keaton; Vilem Kriz; Heinrich Kuhn; Clarence John Laughlin; Rene Le Begue; Gustave Le Gray; Alexander Liberman; Herbert List; Robert Mapplethorpe; Etienne Marey; Margrethe Mather; Ralph Meatyard; Ray Metzker; Duane Michals; Gjon Mili; Felix Nadar; Charles Negre; Hans Namuth; Nicephore Niepce; Nojima; B.J. Ochsner; C. Oorthuys; Paul Outerbridge; Olivia Parker; John Pfahl; David Plowden; William Lake Price; Oscar Rejlander; Baron Von Stillfried Retiniz; Louis Robert; Henry Peach Robinson; Emil Schulthess; Charles Sheeler; Stephen Shore; W. Eugene Smith; Andre Steiner; Josef Sudek; Val Telberg; Tietgens; Jerry Uelsmann; De Villeneuve; H. Voland; Adam Clark Vroman; Weegee; Brett Weston; John Whistler; Clarence White; S. Witkiewicz; and Paul Wolff.