SALOMON, Erich. Portrait of an Age, New York: MacMillan, 1967. Hardcover (black and gold-stamped brown cloth), 11- x 8-7/8 inches, 222 pages, screen-gravure illustrations, dustjacket. Originally published in Germany four years earlier as Portrt einer Epoche, this remains the major monograph of Salomon's work. It attests to his obsession with capturing the private moments of political and social life in Europe and America between the World Wars. Using a concealed Ermanox camera, he haunted conferences, trials, banquets, and other gatherings of the powerful. Included here are images of Winston Churchill, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, William Randolph Hearst, Marlene Dietrich, Albert Einstein, Joseph Goebbels, Benito Mussolini, and hundreds of others. Printed in high-quality gravure, with an essay on the photographer by his son, Peter Hunter-Salomon. Salomon (1886 -1944) was privileged to have the term "candid camera" reportedly coined for his type of picture making, but he had the misfortune of dying at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Very good condition. Cloth slightly sunned at edges, in a dustjacket with miniscule edge wear.

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