Stieglitz, Alfred. The Collection of Alfred Stieglitz: Fifty Pioneers of Modern Photography by Weston J. Naef.

Metropolitan Museum of Art/ Viking Press, 1978. 530 pages. 1st edition, cloth, fine with near fine protected dust jacket. Errata slip tipped in on front flyleaf. [Catalog of the Stieglitz Collection at the museum, an indispensable reference on late 19th and early 20th century photography. Includes a history of the Pictorialist era in photography, i.e. the Photo-Secession and "291," up through the 1930s and Ansel Adams. The second half of the book has chapters devoted to each photographer in the collection, with facsimile signature, portrait of the photographer, chronology, exhibitions, bibliography, and list of photographs with reproductions in the collection. Photographers include Ansel Adams, J. Craig Annan, Malcolm Arbuthnot, Zaida Ben-Yusuf, Alice Boughton, Anne W. Brigman, John G. Bullock, Will Cadby, Eustace G. Calland, Julia Margaret Cameron, Sidney Carter, Rose Clark & Elizabeth Flint Wade, Alvin Langdon Coburn, George Davison, F. Holland Day, Robert Demachy, Baron de Meyer, Mary Devens, William B. Dyer, Rudolf Eickemeyer, Jr., Frank Eugene, Frederick H. Evans, Herbert G. French, Arnold Genthe, Paul Haviland, Hugo Henneberg, David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, A. Horsley Hinton, Th. & O. Hofmeister, Gertrude Kasebier, Joseph T. Keiley, Heinrich Kuehn, Celine Laguarde, René LeBegue, Eliot Porter, William B. Post, Constant Puyo, Frank H. Read, Harry C. Rubincam, Morton L. Schamberg, Sarah C. Sears, George H. Seeley, George Bernard Shaw, Charles Sheeler, Edward Steichen, Paul Strand, Eva Watson-Schütze, Hans Watzek, & Clarence White. Followed by Bibliography of writings about and by Stieglitz, general books and articles, Stieglitz' library of handbooks and manuals, periodicals, annuals and yearbooks, other books and exhibition catalogs, as well as important exhibition catalogs not in Stieglitz' library and exhibitions known only through reviews, plus list of correspondence between Stieglitz and these photographers at the Stieglitz archive at Yale University and other repositories, unpublished recollections, and index. ISBN 0-670-67051-0.  Heavy book, requires more postage than most items in my store.