Alma Lavenson: Photographs

Berkeley, Calif.: Wildwood Arts, 1990. First edition. Folio in gray pictorial glossy stiff paper wraps; x, 106 pages: illustrations; 31 cm Fine with gently sunned spine region. Nearly as new. Paperback. ISBN: 9780826312381

"Alma Ruth Lavenson (1897, in San Francisco – 1989 in Piedmont, California) was an American photographer active in the 1920s and 1930s. She worked with and was a close friend of Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Edward Weston and other photographic masters of the period."—Wikipedia | Contents: Essays: Alma Lavenson, an enduring vision / Susan Ehrens; Resonant light, a path to modernism / Jay McKean Fisher. The photographs: pictoralism; Modernism; The Southwest; The mother lode and Virgina City. Old Mexico, travel letters, 1926. Biographical chronology, 1897-1989. Selected exhibition history, 1929-1940. Early California Women Photographers. Oakland, CA