Photography as Fine Art. The Gallery of World Photography by Bryan Holme.

E.P. Dutton, 1983. First U.S. edition, previously published in Japanese. Fine in large hardcover with near fine protected dust jacket.  First edition.  208 plates with excellent reproduction quality of photographs, most of which are by well known photographers. Some images are classics while others are relatively unfamiliar. Back of the book provides Glossary of terminology and biographies of the photographers who include: Ansel Adams; Diane Arbus; Eugene Atget; Cecil Beaton; Werner Bischof; Bill Brandt; Brassai; Harry Callahan; Cameron; Paul Caponigro; Henri Cartier-Bresson; Imogene Cunningham; Thomas Eakins; Walker Evans; Francis Frith; Shinzo Fukuhara; Ralph Gibson; Lotte Jacobi; Gertrude Kasebier; Andre Kertesz; Dorothea Lange; Man Ray; Joel Meyerowitz; Laszlo Moholy-Nagy; Eadweard Muybridge; Arnold Newman; Timothy O’Sullivan; Gordon Parks; Irving Penn; Eliot Porter; Renger-Patzsch; Aaron Siskind; Edward Steichen; Alfred Stieglitz; Paul Strand; William Henry Fox Talbot; Carleton Wa