Anthony, Gordon Ballet: Camera Studies SIGNED
Ballet: Camera Studies by Gordon Anthony Signed by the author to the literary agent David Higham on front endpaper. Introduction and notes by Arnold Haskell.
Rare signed copy.
Camera Studies, 96 tipped-in photographic plates, in very good condition occasional light finger-soiling, original buckram and red cloth, some light toning, dust-jacket, spine toned, margins, folds and extremities chipped or defective, 1937. Large 4to. 13 x 10 inches.
Published by Geoffrey Bles London.
Book is in very good condition fading to spine and boards .
Very heavy 2.5.kgs.
Gordon Anthony (1902-1989) was known principally as a photographer. He was the principal photographer at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre and during the 1930s took many photos of the Royal Ballet. In 1948 he published the first colour photography book in the UK Studies of Dancers.
His sister was Dame Ninette de Valois who was a dancer in Diaghilev's company. His photos are in the collections of the V & A and the National Portrait Gallery.
