Polaroid Collection. Sotheby’s. Photographs from the Polaroid Collection. Signed Copy the text offers close readings

the text offers close readings of Modotti's work

The book details how he "rediscovered" and preserved the glass-plate negatives of Jacob Riis and Jessie Tarbox Beals

Craig Roper

"At the Edge of Beauty and Decay

Polaroid Collection. Sotheby’s. Photographs from the Polaroid Collection. Signed Copy the text offers close readingsNew York. 21 & 22 June 2010. No. 8649. Massive auction catalog, fully illustrated. 480 pages. Includes both Polaroid photographs and other types of photographs, all 20th century. Photographers include Ansel Adams (many); Paul Caponigro; Harry Callahan; William Wegman; William Garnett; Luigi Ghiri; Minor White; Brett Weston; Les Krims; David Levinthal; Robert Mapplethorpe; Helmut Newton; Lucas Samaras; Jan Saudek; Walter Chappell; Imogen Cunningham;