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PAUL OUTERBRIDGE: A SINGULAR AESTHETIC, PHOTOGRAPHS & DRAWINGS 1921-1941: A CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ
(OUTERBRIDGE, PAUL). Dines, Elaine, Bernard Barryte & Graham Howe, Editors. Santa Barbara, CA: Arabesque Books, 1981. First Edition 1/1500 Deluxe. 4to. Cloth in Acetate Dust Jacket. Catalogue Raisonné. Near Fine/Fine. 240pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Barbara Martin. With a chronology, bibliography, collections listing and exhibition history. Published in conjunction with a 1981 Laguna Beach Museum of Art retrospective, this is a comprehensive monograph on the supremely talented, yet ill-fated pioneering color photographer Paul Outerbridge who finished out his life destitute in Laguna Beach. This includes extensive selections of the nudes, commercial work, carbro prints, and his previously undocumented black and white ink drawings. A bright, most handsome example of the uncommon clothbound Arabesque Books first edition limited to one thousand, five hundred copies with a color photograph by Outerbridge with thick hinged matting mounted on the front cover with the title, editor, and publisher information printed another strip of matting affixed to the spine, in the publishers beautifully preserved silkscreened acetate dustwrapper, as issued, showing a bit of insect damage to the spine lettering. 0-87685-540-0 Inventory Number: 025775