Heading: (Photography)
Author:
Title: The Bausch & Lomb Lens Souvenir. Being a Collection of the Photographs Which Received Awards.
Place Published: Rochester, NY
Publisher:Bausch & Lomb Optical Company
Date Published: 1904
Description:

[57] pp. Many photographic plates and illustrations, several printed in sepia. (Small folio) 30.5x23 cm (12x9") original black paper wrappers, mounted photograph on front with an embossed border, title embossed beneath. First Edition.

First Edition of this outstanding promotional work promoting Bausch & Lomb lenses which turned out to be a significant document in the history of Pictorialism and the Photo-Secession. The competition was designed to demonstrate the optical capabilities of the firm's lenses to produce images of both technical and illustrative quality. The grand-prizewinner was Stieglitz's magnificent "The Street-Winter, " which is reproduced following a full-page declaration of the ideals of "The Photo-Secession" by Stieglitz. A similar essay by Edward Steichen (who was then still spelling his first name as 'Eduard'), entitled "Concerning Portraiture, " accompanies a portrait by him. Eickemeyer, a well-known Pictorialist photographer, contributes a two-page introduction to the work, and there are numerous other brief essays. Among the photographers whose work is reproduced are Laura Adams Armer, Louis Fleckenstein, and the great photographer of the Antarctic, Herbert G. Ponting, whose images include what appears to be a view of Sausalito, on San Francisco Bay.

Small chip at head of spine, light wear; very good.