Recollections Ten Women of Photography 1979 First Edition Signed Inscribed

📸 **Signed First Edition: “Recollections” — Ten Women of Photography, 1979**
*Companion volume to the landmark traveling exhibition, inscribed by both editor and featured artist*

**THE BOOK**

Published by Viking Press in 1979, “Recollections: Ten Women of Photography” documents the lives and work of ten pioneering women photographers whose careers defined twentieth-century American photography. Edited by Margaretta K. Mitchell, this 206-page hardcover pairs biographical profiles with selected black-and-white photographs from each artist. The book accompanied Mitchell’s traveling exhibition of the same name, which played a key role in restoring these photographers’ place in the historical record.

**THE TEN PHOTOGRAPHERS**

Berenice Abbott, Ruth Bernhard, Carlotta M. Corpron, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Nell Dorr, Toni Frissell, Laura Gilpin, Lotte Jacobi, Consuelo Kanaga, and Barbara Morgan — ranging from Pictorialist portraiture to documentary war photography and modernist still life.

**COVER AND DESIGN**

Cream-colored dust jacket with dark brown serif typography, listing all ten photographers between thin horizontal rules. Jacket design by Gael Towry Dillon. Back jacket features a portrait of Mitchell by Frances McLaughlin Gill (© 1979) with biographical text. Original price of $12.50 printed on front. Black cloth boards with silver lettering on spine reading “MITCHELL / RECOLLECTIONS / VIKING.” ISBN 0-670-59078-9.

**INTERIOR PHOTOGRAPHS**

Full-page black-and-white plates throughout, including Ruth Bernhard’s “Kitten as a Small Child in White, 1950” and Berenice Abbott’s V-2 London war documentation. Images range from surreal masked portraiture to architectural studies and landscape photography.

**THIS COPY — INSCRIBED**

First edition, first printing. Hand-inscribed by Margaretta K. Mitchell to Robert Murdock, thanking him for his work on the accompanying gallery exhibition opening. A second inscription in blue ink from Barbara Morgan (one of the ten featured photographers) is dated 1980 — making this copy signed by both the editor and a contributing artist.

**WHY IT MATTERS**

– First edition of a definitive survey of women in photography
– Inscribed by editor Margaretta K. Mitchell (Smith College ’57, former research assistant to Edwin Land at Polaroid)
– Also inscribed by Barbara Morgan, featured photographer
– Companion to the original traveling exhibition
– Viking Press, jacket design by Gael Towry Dillon

**FOR COLLECTORS**

A copy carrying dual inscriptions — from the book’s editor and one of its featured photographers — is uncommon. Mitchell’s note specifically references the exhibition opening, tying this volume directly to a moment in photography history.

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**Condition:**
This is a very good or better volume, with no significant flaws. Black cloth on boards shows some light sunning along edges.
Matching vintage dust wrapper has a large loss at the back upper edge, and some smaller losses along edges. Surface rubbing in places front and back. Now protected in a removable archival mylar sleeve for proper presentation.

See the accompanying images for full condition details.

Will ship promptly, carefully packaged, with tracking.

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