NEGLECTED NEIGHBORS STORIES OF LIFE IN THE ALLEYS, TENEMENTS AND SHANTIES OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. - Rare Book Insider
NEGLECTED NEIGHBORS STORIES OF LIFE IN THE ALLEYS

[HINE] Weller, Charles Frederick

NEGLECTED NEIGHBORS STORIES OF LIFE IN THE ALLEYS, TENEMENTS AND SHANTIES OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

The John C. Winston Company, Philadelphia: 1909
  • $225
8vo., xi, 342 pp., 96 illustrations, the majority from b&w photographs Bound in the publisher's plain green cloth, titled in gilt on the spine. There is slight rubbing at the spine head, foot and edges. A thin tide line along the blank top margin, which starts on the first blank leaf, extends only to the first text page. A very good copy. "In the important task of providing illustrations for the study, Mr. Lewis W. Hine, the exponent of 'Social Photography', has given invaluable generous aid as has also Mr. D. A. Glascoff. Others who have supplied photographs for the book are Eugenia W. Weller, Frank J. Cullen, Herbert Lewis and the author." p. 327 - 328. This is Hine's first appearance in book form.
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UNTITLED GELATIN SILVER PRINT

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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.