VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS | MAGNUM FOUNDERS, IN CELEBRATION OF SIXTY YEARS PORTFOLIO

VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS
MAGNUM FOUNDERS, IN CELEBRATION OF SIXTY YEARS PORTFOLIO

(New York: Verso Limited Editions, 2007, an edition of 75 plus 7 hors commerce copies), a sewn-bound portfolio of 12 platinum prints by the founding members of Magnum including ROBERT CAPA, HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON, GEORGE RODGER, and DAVID "CHIM" SEYMOUR, each with the photographer’s estate stamp embossed in the margin, 1936-55, printed in 2007; together with printed title, introduction by Elliott Erwitt, plate lists, colophon, editioned '37' in pencil, photographer biographies, a printed list of current Magnum photographers and a page with their signatures in pencil. Black buckram clamshell box with debossed title, lined with faux suede and with red Japanese crepe endsheets; together with a platinum print of 'Pablo Picasso and Françoise Gilot, Golfe-Juan, France,' by ROBERT CAPA, embossed with the title, date, facsimile signature and estate stamp in the margin, 1948, printed in 2007
images: each approximately 10 by 7½ in. (25.4 by 19.1 cm.) or the reverse
portfolio: 17 by 15 in. (43.2 by 38.1 cm.)

Condition Report:
This portfolio is in generally excellent condition. The clamshell box is clean aside from a few scuffs on the underside and along the edges.