Search Results: Authors starting with L from John Nichols Gallery

More than 121 plates (7 tipped-in color, including collotype frontispiece) and 48 gravure figs. in text
Duchamp's historic 1959 catalogue raisonne-cum-artist's book
he artist's first legendary monograph and draft catalogue raisonne, was written by art historian and novelist Robert Lebel and published in French in 1959; later that same year, it was translated into English by George Heard Hamilton for Grove Press. The book was a cooperation between Lebel and Duchamp, and beyond Lebel's extensive writing and bibliography, additional chapters were authored by Duchamp, H.P. Roche and Andre Breton. The coupling of these texts with diverse archival photographs and an illustrated compendium of Duchamp's artworks delivered a complex and personal rendering of the artist's life and inner circle. For the first time since its release more than 60 years ago, this landmark publication is back in circulation with Hauser & Wirth Publishers' meticulous facsimile of the English edition, reflecting everything from its… Read More

Tom Leonard was one of this country's outstanding photographers of industrial and architectural subjects. His studio was on New York's West 56th Street but most of his photographic activity took place in the outdoors on location.
Tom Leonard saw his subjects in terms of mass and line, light and shade. These were the important components to him and their inter-relationship determined the outcome of his photographs. Leonard had an artist's eye and seldom found it necessary to crop the finished print at all. So careful was his original composition that the bottom edge of the ground glass in his 5X7 inch Deardorf view camera was slightly masked to match exactly the final print proportions he preferred. Leonard's versatility with this somewhat cumbersome camera was surprising. Judging from his photographs' depth of focus and variety of subjects, one would sooner imagine he used a Rolleiflex 2 ¼ inch camera that so many professionals of his day used.
He used two Goerz lenses with his view camera; one of 8… Read More

Set of three Tom Leonard matted photographs from 1947. Photograph #1 (10 1/2" x 13 1/2": Photograph of exterior house number 1. Photograph #1 contain small small spot tear near the top left corner.
Photograph #2 (9" x 13 1/2"): Interior house number 2 entrance and balcony. Photograph #3 (9" x 13 1/2"): Interior house number 2 entrance and stairs.
Tom Leonard was one of this country's outstanding photographers of industrial and architectural subjects. His studio was on New York's West 56th Street but most of his photographic activity took place in the outdoors on location.
Tom Leonard saw his subjects in terms of mass and line, light and shade. These were the important components to him and their inter­relationship determined the outcome of his photographs. Leonard had an artist's eye and seldom found it necessary to crop the finished print at all. So careful was his original composition that the bottom edge of the ground glass in his 5x7 inch Deardorf view camera was slightly masked to match exactly… Read More

INTERLINEAR TO CABEZA DE VACA.Long, Haniel
Published by WRITER'S EDITIONS., SANTA FE, 1936
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition; First Printing. Some scrapes on the bottom of the cover revealing some of the hard back interior. Not noticeable.
1936 Writers' Editions edition. Another dealer mentioned that this was limited to 430 copies.