Camera Magazines (published in Switzerland)

39a.1. Camera magazine, edited by Allan Porter, published in Switzerland. 1970 complete, 12 issues, with custom binder imprinted "Camera" in red on spine. This exquisitely printed and collectible magazine was published in English, French, and German editions; the set here offered is in French, although I provide the descriptions below in English. All issues in fine condition. $75.

Camera (Switz.), 49:1 (French). January 1970. Composit 1970. Rene Burri; Samuel Alboum; Tetsuo Iwashima; Tom Drahos; Ron Tunison

Camera (Switz.), 49:2 (French). February 1970. New Talents, New Faces, New Fashion. Fashion Photography; Georges Tourdjman; Oliviero Toscani; Sarah Moon; Barry Lategan

Camera (Switz.), 49:3 (French). Community. March 1970. Josef Koudelka; Jens S-Jensen; John Walmsley; Victor Reznickov; George Haling; Staten Island; Gypsies; Palmir; Summerhill

Camera (Switz.), 49:4 (French). Man and His Loneliness. April 1970. Art Kane; Judy Dater; Gerald L. Millet; Ken Graves; Jerry and Fred Shore

Camera (Switz.), 49:5 (French). Panopticon II: Photography and Architecture. May 1970. Photographs and scale drawings printed on glassine of 19 buildings, ancient and modern.

Camera (Switz.), 49:6 (French). Landscape 2070 or Ecology 1970. June 1970. Warren Krupsaw; Rudolf Lichtsteiner; Peter Schutte; Landscape; Ecology

Camera (Switz.), 49:7 (French). Potpourri. July 1970. George Silk (ad); Hiroshi Hamaya; Heinrich Riebesehl; Unoo, Satoshi; Douglas R. Gilbert; Bengt-Goran Carlsson; Bernhardtz; Chotoku Tanaka

Camera (Switz.), 49:8 (French). Ultrabanality. August 1970. Christian Vogt; Sid Sattler; Neal Slavin; Balthasar Burkhard; Markus Ratz; Otmar Thormann; Manuel Baumann; John R. Gossage; C.M. Mengotti; Heinz Dieter Finck; Kalervo Ojutkangas; Bob Anderson; Anthony Enton Friedkin; Terry Wild; Diane Arbus (portrait of by Gossage)

Camera (Switz.), 49:9 (French). His and Hers. September 1970. Clemens Kalischer; Baron Wolman; Rene Burri; Jan Saudek; Lartigue; Duane Michals; Otto Steinert; David Attie; Jean-Loup Sieff; George Tice; Dean Brow

Camera (Switz.), 49:10 (French). October 1970. Photography as a Literary Art. Ernst Haas; Eikoh Hosoe; Burk Uzzle; Ralph Gibson

Camera (Switz.), 49:11 (French). Choice. November 1970. Chris Von Wangenheim; Japan; Willy Spiller; Sean Kernan; Ulrich Mack; Andre Gelpke; Michael Semak

Camera (Switz.), 49:12 (French). Pictorialism. December 1970. Demachy; Puyo; Le Begue; Bergon; Bremard; Misonne; Ickx; Keighley; Watzek; Mazourine; Henneberg; Hofmeister; Erfurth; Kuhn; gum bichromate; oil processes.

39a.2. Camera, January 1972. Volume 51, Number 1. English edition. Living Masters of Photography. Hans Finsler, Minor White, Wynn Bullock, Manuel Alvarez Bravo. Fine except delamination of plastic coating, as is common with this number. $25.

39a.3 Camera, February 1972. Volume 51, Number 2. Photographs of Women. Portrait of Dorothy Norman by Alfred Stieglitz on cover. Essay "Women" by Anne Tucker. Photographers include Frances Benjamin Johnston, Margaret Bourke-White, Diane Arbus, Imogen Cunningham, Dorothea Lange, Man Ray (of Kiki), Edward Weston (of Charis), Lisette Model, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank, Garry Winogrand, Harry Callahan, Helen Levitt, Josef Koudelka, Elaine Mayes, Gertrude Kasebier, August Sander, Elliott Erwitt, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Berenice Abbott, Robert Doisneau, Edward steichen, Judy Dater, Annie W. Brigman, Todd Walker, Les Krims, Duane Michals, Richard Avedon. With brief biographies of the photographers. Includes images not reproduced elsewhere. SOLD

39a.5. Camera, July 1972. Volume 51, Volume 51, No. 7. Naked Earth. Antarctica, Franz Lazi; Rock, Ron Rosenstock; Desert, Farrell Grehan; Himalayas, Yoshikazu Shirakawa. Also Tailored Ultra-Miniature Performance - the Pocket Instamatics. Fine, $15.

39a.6. Camera, August 1972. Volume 51, No. 8. The Visual Generation. Dennis Rosenfeldt; Sally Patc, John Delacour; Antonin Kratochvic; H. Olin Smith; Dirk Raats; Jose Roberto hofling; Leo Hetzel; Joseph Deiss; Jeff Smith; William Frank Messer; Steve Murai; Reine Turner; Bogdan Paluszynski; Robert Holmgren; Nikolaus Walter; Ronald Leighton; Sepp Seitz; Adal Maldonado; Regis Decottignies; Marc Fabre; Paul Phyfer; Harvey Stein; Vit Cimbura; Jules Landsman; Jiri Anderle; Vincent Digerlando; Horst Ludeking; Stuart L. Ferguson; Lee Redmond; Jeffrey Wanerman; Malcolm Miller; Didier Romand; Egils Kronlins. With biographies of the young photographers. Fine, $15.

39a.7. Camera, October 1972. Volume 51, No. 10. Sequences, Part 2. Oliviero Toscani, Lyle Rosbotham, Nikolay Zurek, Horst Munzig, Stephen Shore, Elihu Blotnik, Jens S-Jensen, Bernard Plossu, Helen Sager, Pierre Cordier, Rita Kohmann, Jorg Diehl, Nate Schwartz, Ulrich Mack, Georges Tourdjman, Jerrold Peil, William G. Larson, George Haling, Robbert Flick, Francois Robert. With brief biographies of the photographers. A well worn copy with loose pages, creases on cover, and tape on spine. Missing pages replaced with photocopies: 13-24, 25-26, 35-38, 47-50, 65-80. [sold]

39a.8. Camera, December 1972. Volume 51, No. 12. Photography, An Iconographic Chronological History by Allan Porter1. Photography 1839-1972. Camera, 1922-1972. Stunning compilation of images and textual information, 80 illustrations, two to a page. Photographs by the outstanding photographers from Niepce to the 1970s. Near fine copy with front cover curling, as common with these magazines. $25.

39a.9. Camera, February 1973, Vol. 52, No. 2. Group f/64. The Henry Swift Collection of the San Francisco Museum of Art. Essay by John Humphrey on the evolution of the Swift Collection. Swift, an avid amateur photographer, was an friend and collector of Edward Weston's work in the 1920s and together with Weston was an original member of Group f/64. After Swift's death in 1962, his widow Florence, Imogen Cunningham, and others enhanced the collection with additional Group f/64 works and presented it to SF/MoMA. This issue of Camera contains choice full-page reproductions of the work of Group members, including Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, John Paul Edwards, Preston Holder, Dorothea Lange, Alma Lavenson, Sonia Noskowiak, Peter Stackpole, Henry Swift, Willard Van Dyke, Brett Weston, and Edward Weston. Also Eadweard Muybridge by Timo Tauno Pajunen, part 2. Fine, $30.

39a.10. Camera, March 1973. Vol. 52, No. 3. A Song of the Rolling Earth. Steven Langerman. Walter Sack. Michel Chapuis. Susan Barron. Josepha Haveman. Lynne Bama. Fine. $15.

39a.11. , Volume 52, No. 4. English edition. Theme: Reportage. Photographers: Bob Adelman (from "Down Home" series); Elliott Erwitt; Bryn Campbell; Christian Belpaire (Hebrides); Constantine Manos (Greece); David Goldblatt (South Africa). Includes several photographers from the Magnum cooperative. Also technical articles on strobochromatography, color enlargers, sending color pictures by short-wave radio, new photo products. Condition: fine except last few pages which have a vertical crease (not affecting photographers' portfolios). $10.

39a.12.. Camera, June 1973. Vol. 52, No. 6. Living Masters of Photography (Part 3). Ansel Adams. Aaron Siskind. Brett Weston. Joseph Sudek. Edward J. Steichen (1879-1973), obituary, no photos. Lovely cover by Sudek. Fine. $30.

39a.13. Camera, July 1973. Vol. 52, No. 7. Psychosynthesis. James Nachtwey; Donna-Lee Phillips; Edward West; Hilton Braithwaite; W. Wallace Wilson; Laurent Jollet; Richard Humphrey; Joh Gahl; Horst Mujller; Gernot Huber; Paul Hoffman; Egons Spuris; Bruce Hart; John Weiss; Henry Horenstein; Birginia L. Blaisdell; Pamela Starsky; Ken Huston; John Edward Hafey, Jr.; Robert Jensen; Donald Waxman; Henri Cousineau; A. Michael Degtjarewsky; Brian Robert Smith; Heinz-Jurgen Gerke; Arthur H. Nishimura; Masamichi Someya; Giovanni Logeman; John Rushton Myers; David J. Kern; James C. Storm; James Henkel; Roger Vulliez. Includes nudes. VG+ with small crimps on cover. $15.

36a.14. Camera, August 1973. Vol. 52, No. 8. Inhabitants. Gabor Szilasi (Canadia); Sepp Seitz (Chinatown, New York); Stephen Guion Williams (Sabbathday Lake Shakers); Gianni Tortoli (Dahomey, Africa); Toshio Enomoto (Nepal); Yehoshua Zamir (Israel). Fine, $15.

36a.15. Camera, October 1973. Vol. 52, No. 10. Once Upon a Time... Jean-Claude Gautrand; Mareen Bisilliat; Joshua Freiwald; Harry Wilks; George Malave. Fine, $15.

39a.16. Camera, November, 1973, Vol. 52, No. 11. English edition. Photographs by Nathaniel Lieberman, James Marchael, Dick Frank, Ron Stark, Dick Arentz, Warren Krupsaw, Burk Uzzle and Wayne Sorce; short technical articles re ultra-sonic radiography, concentrated macro-illumination; film processing by magazine; enlarger function and design ideas; steady shooting from moving supports; sophisticated macro-photography; variable-gamma film; electronic color negative grading; news re photo products. In fine, virtually as new condition except for short crease on back top corner. $15.

39a.17. Camera, December 1973. Vol. 52, No. 12. The North American Indian by Edward S. Curtis. Printed directly from photogravures, 1903-1925. Stunning full page reproductions, plus two foldouts, in sepia tone with essay by Allan Porter. Fine, $30.

39a.17. Camera, January 1974, volume 53, Number 1, a fine copy of the very collectible photography magazine published in Switzerland that was edited by Allan Porter. This issue, in the English edition, includes Dean Brown (color landscapes in Alaska, Arizona, California, New York and Texas; John Vink (Belgium); Mehdi Khonsari (Iran) ; and Geoff M. Rainbow (tors in Dartmoor, England). Khonsari was a student of W. Eugene Smith, Garry Winogrand, and others in the U.S. before returning to his homeland to document Persian culture. Issue includes index to 1973 Camera magazines. $15.

39a.19. Camera, March 1974. Vol. 53, No. 3. Insight. Bill Owens, Christian Vogt, Helmut Newton, Michael Drobney. Includes nudes. Near fine copy with a small crimp on cover, $20.

39a.20. Camera, April 1974. Vol. 53, No. 4. Docere, Movere, Delectare. Vincent Vallarino; Charles H. Caffin; Klaus Ott; T.C. Tilney; David Bayles; Carl George Heise; Don Eddy; Leonard Misonne; George A. Tice; Sadakichi Hartmann. Very good copy with crimp near base of spine. $10. Another with a few indentations on cover, otherwise fine. $10.

39a.21. Camera, May 1974. Vol. 53, No. 5. New American Imagery. Kenneth Josephson; Henry Wessel, Jr.; Neal Slavin; Anthony Enton Friedkin; Edward Grazda. VG+ with small crimps along spine. $15.

39a.23. Camera, July 1974. Vol. 53, No. 7. A Few. Fulvio Roiter, The Senufos people in Africa; Marketa Luskacov, photographs of people in Ireland; Ralph Eugene Meatyard; Bernard Plossu. Very good with some crimps, $15.

29a.24. Camera, October 1974. Vol. 53, No. 10. Instant Photography. Includes chronology of instant photography, biography of Edwin Land, evolution of Polaroid photography, and many examples from the Polaroid Collection. Photographs by Adams, Ansel; Wolbarst, John; Edgerton, Harold; Stern, Bert; Hartmann, Erich; Weston, Brett; Paine, Wyngate; Glinn, Burt; Zieff, Howard; Weegee; Caponigro, Paul; Power, Mark; Warrington, Ann; Halsman, Philippe (of O’Keeffe); Silverthorne, Jeffrey; Becotte, Michael; Cosindas, Marie; Clift, William; Gohlke, Frank; Chiarenza, Carl; Gowin, Emmet; Cohen, Mark; Sieff, Jean-Loup; Sudek, Josef; Evans, Walker; Mack, Ulrich; Kane, Art; Samaras, Lucas; Bailey, David. Near fine, $20. Another, creased vertically on cover near spine, near very good, $10.

39a.25. Camera, March 1976. Volume 55, Number 3. Investigative Photography. Ted Thompson: Ku-Klux-Klan; Oren Schmuckler: the Palestinians; Dennis Carlyle Darling: Outsiders. Interview: Wynn Bullock, Part 2. vg+, $15.

39a.28. Camera, October 1976. Volume 55, Number 10. When Photo-Journalism Was Young from Bern Lohse; Umbo; Wolfgang Weber; Bernd Lohse; Ferenc Berko. VG+, $15.

39a.28a. Camera, June 1978. Volume 57, Number 6. An American Century of Photography by Allan Porter and Robert A. Sobieszek. Featuring article by David Vestal about Louis Walton Sipley and his founding of the American Museum of Photography in Philadelphia, the first history of photography museum (most of its collection is now at the George Eastman House). Includes information about what happened to the original photographs in the 1898 Philadelpia Salon, judged by Alfred Stieglitz, et al. Excellent reproductions of daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and photographs by William Langenheim, Samuel Van Loan, W.G. Mason, Robert Cornelius, Isaac Rehn, William Southgate Porter, Fitz W. Guerin, Josiah Hawes, Stephen H. Horgan, John Moran, Gertrude Kasebier, Clayton Stone Harris, Samuel J. Castner, George Francis Schreiber & Sons, Edward Weston, F.L. Howe, Anne Brigman, Doris Ulmann, Will Connell, John Paul Pennebaker, Dave Fletcher, Remie Lohse, George W. Hewitt, Lejaren A. Hiller, Frank R. Fraprie, and Frederick Ives. Also article about contemporary photography in India by Chinmaya. Spine has crimps and small tear on back about two inches from bottom, contents fine. Near very good, $10.

39a.29. Camera, March 1979, Volume 58, Number 3 (high qualilty magazine published in Switzerland, English edition). Edited by Alan Porter. [This issue features photographs of West Berlin, Germany, by Michael Schmidt and his students: Wilmar Koenig, Ulrich Gorlich, and Jurgen Frish, as well as an article on how to make platinum prints by George Tice and an account of the fire at the George Eastman House shed that destroyed a large quantity of nitrate movie film.] Library rubber stamp and initials on cover, o/w fine. $10.

40. Camera, April 1979. Volume 58, Number 4. Edited by Alan Porter. [Lewis Baltz, Christopher James, Ralph Gibson, Grant Mudford, Art Sinsabaugh.] Water stain at top of cover; top edge of pages have waviness but no other problems. $10.00.

40.01. Camera, July 1979. Associated Press special issue. Volume 58, Number 7. Edited by Alan Porter. [Contains some of the best known images in the history of photojournalism, including the attempted assassination of New York Mayor William J. Gaynor by Bill Warneke; Ruth Snyder being executed in electric chair by Thomas Howard; Valentine's Day Massacre of mobsters in Chicago by Hack Miller; The Hindenbeurg on fire by Murray Becker; Pearl Harbor; Paris Is Free Again by Pete Carroll; Iwo Jima by Joe Rosenthal; Hiroshima mushroom cloud by Sgt. George R. Caron; The Bridge at Pyongyang, Korea by Max Destor; The King of Britain, George VI is dead by Ron Case; Lt. Col. Loan shooting Viet Cong by Eddie Adams; Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald by Bob Jackson; Patty Hearst holding up bank by video surveillance camera, and many others.] Ex-library copy with library stamp on cover, otherwise vg+. $5.