Arnold Genthe Pictures of Old Chinatown 1908 1st Edition San Francisco Photos

Description: Arnold Genthe Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Pictures of Old Chinatown First Edition September June 1908 Text Will Irwin Pictures of Old Chinatown. Photographs by Arnold Genthe. Text by Will Irwin. Moffat, Yard and Company, New York, 1908. 162 pages. Quarto. This is the first edition and first printing from September 1908. Hardcover. Clothbound with red embossed title and tipped in image. 47 black and white reproductions. Good. Arnold Genthe's photographs of San Francisco before and during the earthquake and fire of 1906 made him a living legend in the Bay area. While this book captures an era long past, Genthe was way ahead of his time in his practice of street photography. He said of his technique: "I was determined to show people a new kind of photography: there would be no stilted poses; as a matter of fact, no poses at all. I would try to take my sitters unawares, at a moment when they would not realize that the camera was ready. I would show them prints in which a uniform sharpness would be avoided and emphasis laid on portraying a person's character instead of making a commonplace record of clothes and a photographic mask." Read Genthe's Getty Museum bio. Good. The boards are lightly soiled and scuffed. Lettering is faded on the spine. Front cover photograph is intact and clean. Light wear to the edges and to the head and heel of the spine. Internally, prior owner bookplate to front pastedown. Front hinge is split. Rear hinge sound. Binding a little loose with threading visible in between some of the pages. Images clean and unmarked. Few soil spots. Newspaper articles laid in.

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