Eliot Porter

(New York: Daniel Wolf Press, 1979, an edition of 250), a portfolio of 10 photographs, dye-transfer prints, each mounted, signed by the photographer in pencil on the mount, the portfolio copyright stamp on the reverse, each within individual wrappers with letterpress title and date, 1956-77, printed circa 1979; together with the printed title, introduction by the photographer, plate list, and colophon, signed and numbered '236' by the photographer in ink.  Folio, taupe linen clamshell box with gilt-lettered leather label, no. 236 in an edition of 250

Plates include: Columbine leaves, Great Spruce Head Island, Maine. July 27, 1974 Stones and cracked mud. Black Place, New Mexico. June 9, 1977 Foxtail grass. Lake City, Colorado. August, 1957 Rock-eroded stream bed. Coyote Gulch, Utah. August 14, 1971 River edge at sunset. Below Piute Rapids, San Juan River, Colorado. May 24, 1962 Frostbitten apples. Tesuque, New Mexico. November 21, 1906 Trunks of maple and birch with oak leaves. Passaconaway Road, New Hampshire. October 7, 1956 Redbud trees in bottomland. Near Red River Gorge, Kentucky. April 17, 1968 Shadbush. Near Hillsborough, New Hampshire. April 28, 1957 Colorful trees. Newfound Gap Road, Great Smokey Mountains, National Park, Tennessee. October, 1967 The photographs in the portfolio are in generally excellent condition. Each has strong vivid colors and is mounted on clean white board. The clamshell box has faint soiling overall, and is worn along the spine.
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