AMERICAN ANNUAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY. Christian A. Peterson, compiler, Index to the American Annual of Photography, Minneapolis: author, 1996. Softcover, 9 x 7 inches, 148 pages.
The American Annual of Photography was the longest-running and most significant photographic yearly published in the United States. It first appeared in 1887, and by the time of its demise in 1953 covered over half the lifespan of the photographic medium. It remains today a rich resource on three generations of photographers. Included were such early figures as Edward Bierstadt and Napoleon Sarony, pictorialists Gertrude Kebier and Clarence H. White, and twentieth-century masters like Minor White. This index encompasses every credited article and photographic reproduction in the annual's sixty-seven volumes; over 3,500 names are alphabetically listed with citations. Privately printed in an edition of 500 copies. New condition.

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