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Zola. Zola: Photographer. Photographs by Émile Zola.
Zola. Zola: Photographer. Photographs by Émile Zola.
208 photographs selected and compiled by François Émile Zola and Massin. Seaver Books/Henry Holt and Company, 1988. Revised edition (first in English). First U.S. edition, first printing. 183 pages. Hardcover, very good with repaired nick on top edge of front cover, not visible when dust jacket in place. Protected dust jacket is fine although somewhat out of alignment so that spine title is partly on back. The French novelist Zola became an enthusiastic photographer in 1888. Many of his photographs are candid street scenes. The photographs in this book are from the collection of two of his grandsons, including co-author François Émile Zola. The book is arranged in chapters: Zola: Photographer, Life in Médan, A Second Family, The Trip to Italy, Exile in England, Zola’s Paris, The World’s Fair of 1900 (in Paris, France), and Portraits and Still Lifes. Includes photos of Zola, his wife, and children. Originally published in France in 1979 by Editions Denoël.