The Insistent Object: Photographs 1845-1986 by Jeffrey Fraenkel.

Fraenkel Gallery, 1987. Stiff French wraps, very good with light indentations on cover. 27 photographs, large format, excellent reproduction quality. Exhibition catalog for an fine show that ran from March 4 through April 18, 1987. Photographers include William Henry Fox Talbot; Charles Negre; Charles Clifford; Adolphe Braun; Louis-Emile Durandelle; A.J. Russell; Charles Aubrey; Carleton Watkins; Joseph J. Woodward; Leon Vidal; James Nasmyth; Juan Laurent; Eadweard Muybridge; Eugene Atget; Edward Weston; Walker Evans; Harold Edgerton; Man Ray; Faurest Davis; Robert Frank; Diane Arbus; Henry Wessel; Lee Friedlander; Richard Misrach; Robert Mapplethorpe; Nicholas Nixon; and unknown. Some of the images by the famous photographers are not usually seen, including the Edward Weston reproduced below.