Rare vintage landscape study 1908 by George Bernard Shaw printed from an autochrome

 

This is plate 93 from a vintage copy of "The Studio - Colour Photography and other Recent Developments of the Art of the Camera" 1908 the British companion to Camera Work, the American photo secessionist magazine published by Alfred Stieglitz.

If Velasquez were born today, he would be a photographer and not a painter." George Bernard Shaw, quoted in The Best of Popular Photography. Bernard Shaw was not only a prolific playwright, writer and social-political commentator and thinker but an avid amateur photographer: taking and collecting images from the 1860s until his death in 1950.

Delivered in an acid free archival sleeve and hard backed envelope.

 

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