Robert h allshouse ed (7 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First printing (stated) large hardcover in excellent, unmarked, near-pristine condition (slight handling), with VG+ dust jacket (slight wear). The DJ is protected by a new, clear, removeable cover. 216 pages, with early color photographs from a process created in Russia. Only slower USA shipment available. [3.2 lbs]. Color & B/w Photos By P.-G. (illustratore). Book.…

hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. includes dust-jacket. DETAILS: very good price-clipped dust-jacket with only slight wear, attractive copy, very good large brown cloth, glossy paper slightly wavy at top and bottom margins as so often. ALLSHOUSE, ROBERT H., ed. . Photographs for the Tsar: the pioneering color photography of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii commissioned by Tsar Nicholas II. Edited with an introduction by Robert H. Allshouse. New York: Dial Press, 1980, stated First Printing, xxiii, 216pp., . Dust-jacket design by Jack Ribik. Prokudin-Gorskii, Sergei Mikhailovich, 1863-1944 - The photographs in this extraordinary book are the work of a previously unknown pioneer in early twentieth-century color photography, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii -- commissioned by Tsar Nicholas II in 1909 to travel throughout the Russian empire taking photographs. Prokudin-Gorskii managed to bring out of Russia his collection of nearly 2000 glass-plate negatives. This book, produced with the cooperation of the National Archives and the Library of Congress, contains 120 of his finest color photographs -- including the only extant photo in color of Leo Tolstoy. Another 120 have been reproduced in sepia from black-and-white prints. "Photographs for the Tsar" is a landmark contribution to the history of photography. - CONTENTS: Introduction / by Robert H. Allshouse -- Village life -- Tolstoy and Yasnaya Polyana -- Rivers and waterways -- Churches and ikons -- The Urals -- The Caucasus -- Turkestan and Samarkand -- Afterword : Prokudin-Gorskii and the photographic tradition / by Arthur Goldsmith. 9780803769960 ISBN 0803769962.…

Hard Cover. Condizione: Near Fine. DJ Near Fine. 2nd Printing. 215pp. A marvelous collection of 120 color and 120 sepia-toned photographs taken on the photographer's 1909 tour through the Russian Empire, on commission from the tsar. Includes the only known color photo of Leo Tolstoy. A sharp, fresh copy. Size: Folio. Color & B/w Photos By P.-G. (illustratore).…

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good -. Very Good -. (1980), 216pp, illus., gold cloth, bottom corners slightly bumped, slight rubbing & edgewear to dj, contents clean. Color & B/w Photos By P.-G. (illustratore).

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. folio. pp. 216. profusely illus. in colour & b/w. biblio. wrs. (previous owner's notes to inside cover, minor edge wear). First Paperback Edition.

Condizione: As New. Good condition large harback book with d/j. *Free Post*.

Hardback. The Pioneering colour photography of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii commissioned by Tsar Nicholas II. 23pp text, 216pp coloured photographs, 4to Sidgwick & Jackson, London 1980. Very good in dust jacket.