Malcolm, Janet. Diana & Nikon. Essays on the Aesthetic of Photography by Janet Malcolm.

Godine, 1980. 1st edition. Hardcover with purple cloth-covered boards. Essays, all but one of which previously appeared in the New Yorker magazine, include topics such as Alfred Stieglitz and the Photo-Secession, also his portraits of Georgia O'Keeffe; Edward Weston nudes and landscapes; Irving Penn photographs of cigarette and cigar butts; Garry Winogrand; Richard Avedon; John Szarkowski and the Museum of Modern Art; Nina Alexander and Herta Hilscher-Wittgenstein; William Eggleston; Bill Owens; Harry Callahan; Walker Evans and Robert Frank; and Chauncey Hare. Profusely illustrated with 82 images by the above photographers, as well as many others such as Russell Lee (of the FSA), Andre Kertesz, Joel Whitney, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Lartigue, Van Der Zee, Nancy Rexroth, Diane Arbus, Eve Sonneman, et al. Fine with fine protected price-clipped dust jacket.