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FRATISEK TICHY GRAFICKE DILO.

8vo., [198] [1] pp., 83 full-page b&w plates, 298 b&w thumbnails, and other illustrations in text. Chronological catalogue of all the graphic work. Slight bump at the crown. A near fine copy in the illustrated dust jacket. The essential part of this publication is an inventory of graphic works 1921-1958, which contains both a brief description of the individual works found and available, and reproductions of them. Some of the works are reproduced in larger format in a separate pictorial section. An introductory study traces the development and significance of this distinctive artistic expression in the painter's oeuvre and defines its characteristic features. Limited to 3000 copies. WorldCat locates a single copy at the National Library of the Czech Republic.
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UNTITLED GELATIN SILVER PRINT

UNTITLED GELATIN SILVER PRINT

Chappell, Walter Vintage gelatin silver photograph 7 3/8 x 9 3/16 inches [18.54 x 23.34 cm.] The verso bears the printed label of the Carl Siembab Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, which reads, " Walter Chapel Photograph/ Please return the Print to Gallery." Written in the photographer's distinctive hand, " Return to Walter Chappell, For one-time Repro only, 1958." A fine print. Walter Chappell (1925 - 2000) was affiliated with a long list of noted American photographers: Edward Weston, Alfred Stieglitz, Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Paul Caponigro, Carl Chiarenza, et al. His association with Minor White, as a student, coworker at the George Eastman House, and with Aperture Magazine was one of his most enduring. He was represented by the Carl Siembab Gallery, one of the first galleries devoted solely to photography. In the early 1960s, the home he shared with his wife, the painter, Nancy Barrett Dickinson, was destroyed by fire, taking most of his negatives and prints. Photographs made prior to the fire are rare. This photograph was reproduced as plate XXXVI, the final image in, UNDER THE SUN: The Abstract Art of Camera Vision, By Nathan Lyons, Syl Labrot, Walter Chappell. New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1960. "Chappell's Plate XXXVI suggests a galaxy in colliding upsweep. Whatever the photographic source, he has swirled a majestic rhythm of purest spontaneity." Barbara Morgan, 5 REVIEWS OF "UNDER THE SUN", Aperture, Volume 8, N0. 4, 1960.