Venice, The Naya Collection
Venice: O. Böhm, Publishers, 1981. Item #1557 Oblong 8vo. 240 x 290 mm., [9 ½ x 11 ½ inches]. 152, [4] pp. With one-hundred and twelve black and white photographic plates within the text. Publishers’ black cloth over boards with white lettering on the spine and upper cover; unclipped illustrated dust jacket. Book is Near Fine: front hinge cracked, showing the webbing beneath; minor shelf wear. Otherwise in excellent condition with very little wear on the interior or exterior. Jacket is Fine: no noticeable defects or signs of substantial use or wear. First English Edition. Italo Zannier (b. 1932) is an Italian art historian and photographer. He has taught on the history of photography in universities throughout Italy and has published over five-hundred works on the subject including scholarly articles, books, and catalogs. The present work is centered around the photography of Carlo Naya (1816-1882), a pioneer of Italian photography best known for his early photographs of Venice and those documenting the restoration of the Giotto Frescoes. In it, Zannier describes, not just the art itself, but also the fruitful period that Naya was working in and the artistic landscape in Italy around the turn of the twentieth century when photographic art was still developing. The book makes use of the extensive collection inherited by Osvaldo Böhm when he took over the Naya firm in 1918. It was translated from an Italian work published in the same year under the title Venezia, archivio Naya by John Millerchip and Philip Roberts.
Price: $95.00