From: Judy Seigel (jseigel@panix.com)
Date: 07/20/03-05:30:59 PM Z
On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, Richard Knoppow wrote:
> If someone has access to the back numbers of American
> Photography Magazine it might be worth going over the
> articals in it for more on this subject. I have a good
> collection but it does not go back beyond the early thirties
> except for a few scattered numbers. American Photography was
> the great bastion of pictorialist photography in the U.S.
> for three decades at least. This sort of reseach is time
> consuming and I think the older issues of the magazine may
> be hard to find. Nonetheless, there may be profit in the
> project. Its possible cumulative indexes were published, if
> so, they would of course be very helpful.
I have maybe a dozen scattered issues of American Photography from January
1909 to Sept 1925, plus another half dozen from the 30s. I do not recall
anything useful on Fresson, tho as I wrote to the list last year, I found
some excellent & quite complete-seeming articles (including making
"Artigue" paper) in a couple of early Dictionaries of Photography.
I think the New York Public Library collection of these magazines is quite
complete, and I'd expect they have an online catalog. That's certainly the
first place I'd check. I recently got a bound volume of The Camera of
1935 in hand there -- tho they didn't have that year on microfiche they
were willing to make copies from the volume. (They have a copy machine
with a support at an angle so it doesn't break the spine totally -- tho
the way the clerk slammed the book around on it gave me the shivers.)
Judy
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