Galassi, Peter. Before Photography: Painting and the Invention of Photography by Peter Galassi. . Untitled (Friends of Photography) and cultural phenomenon

and cultural phenomenon

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Galassi, Peter. Before Photography: Painting and the Invention of Photography by Peter Galassi. . Untitled (Friends of Photography) and cultural phenomenonNY: Museum of Modern Art, 1981. 152 pages, 82 plates (9 in color), 38 reference illustrations. 1st edition (unstated). Stiff illustrated wraps with minor wear to extremities. Catalog for exhibition that traveled in the U. S. in 1981 1982, this is Galassi's first significant book. (Later he succeeded John Szarkowski as chef d'oeuvre of photography at MoMA and produced many more.) Despite its title, this book includes both photography and painting and