Various Authors

Sotheby's & Abbeville Capsule Libraries present a curated selection of Abbeville Press books from the personal archive of publisher Bob Abrams, in conjunction with Art without Boundaries: The Abrams Family Collection.

The Photographic Eye Collection is a set of 4 books on photography, including the below titles:

• A History of Women Photographers.
• Naomi Rosenblum (American).
• New York: Abbeville Press, 2010.
• Third edition, revised and expanded, out of print.
• 432 pages.

• New Color/New Work: Eighteen Photographic Essays.
• Sally Eauclaire (American).
• New York: Abbeville Press, 1984.
• First edition, out of print.
• 276 pages.

• L'Amour Fou: Photography And Surrealism.
• Rosalind E. Krauss, Jane Livingston and Dawn Ades.
• New York: Abbeville Press, 1985.
• First edition, out of print.
• 243 pages.

• A World History of Photography.
• Naomi Rosenblum (American).
• New York: Abbeville Press, 2019.
• Fifth edition, revised and expanded, in print.
• 748 pages.

At Abbeville Press, Bob Abrams published not only many distinguished books of photography, but also several important books about photography—volumes that served to sharpen the reader’s “photographic eye.” This capsule library includes two seminal works by Naomi Rosenblum: A World History of Photography, the most ambitious treatment of photography as a branch of art history ever written, and her equally monumental History of Women Photographers. New Color/New Work: Eighteen Photographic Essays surveyed the emerging field of fine art color photography and included portfolios by William Eggleston, Stephen Shore, Joel Meyerowitz, and other now-legendary names. Finally, L'Amour Fou: Photography and Surrealism, originally published as the catalogue of an exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery, became a touchstone for a generation of artists and art historians who were ready to embrace the “optical unconscious.”