Gary Saretzky Photo Books
Popular Photography. May 1940. Volume 6, Number 5. Giant Directory Issue. Photographer self-portraits.
Popular Photography. May 1940. Volume 6, Number 5. Giant Directory Issue. Photographer self-portraits.
214 pages, including about 100 pages with the directory listing thousands of cameras, lenses, and other photographic equipment with pictures and names and addresses of distributors. Also includes instructional articles and Salon Section including 12 self-portraits by prominent photographers: Lejaren a Hiller; George Hurrell, the Hollywood portraitist; Victor Keppler; Charles Kerlee, who would soon join Edward Steichen’s team of Navy photographers; Pirie MacDonald (who called himself “Photographer of Men”; Martin Munkacsi, who revolutionized fashion photography with his pictures of leaping women; Valentino Sarra; Paul Hesse; Ivan Dmitri; James Doolittle; Clarence Sinclair Bull; and Anton Bruehl. Very good with small mailing label lower right of cover.