Silver and Grey: Fifty Years of Australian Photography, 1900-1950 by Newton, Gael; Edmund Capon - 1980

Australia: Angus & Robertson, 1980. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Very Good cloth-bound hardcover with a bump to one tip and rubbing to the bottom edges of the boards in a Very Good+ dust jacket with light soiling and a touch of wear at the extremities. A nice copy. All dust jackets are protected by a clear mylar cover. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. Edited with text by Gael Newton; foreword by Edmund Capon. 140 pages; 120 full-page b&w plates plus 10 text illustrations; 8.75 x 11.5 inches. Photographers bios. Surveys the rich photographic history of Australian photography during the first half of the 20th century. The photos cover all the genres of the period from fashion and portraiture to modernist visions of street life, still lifes, and nudes. Photographers include Cecil Bostock, Harold Cazneaux, Max Dupain, Hans Hasenpflug, Laurence Le Guay, David Moore, David Potts, Athol Shmith, and others.