Laura Gilpin: An Enduring Grace

Fort Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. An extremely important biography of pioneering photographer Laura Gilpin (1891-1979). Not a rare volume, but significant in that it is inscribed by the author, Martha Sandweiss, to legendary photographer Eliot Porter (1901-1990) and his wife, the artist Aline Porter (1909-1991). Martha Sandweiss was instrumental in acquiring Eliot Porter's archive for the Amon Carter Museum in Houston while she served as its Curator of Photography. First Printing. 339 pp. Folio. Just the slightest hint of sunning to the spine and top edge of front and rear panel, now in mylar cover. Clean (truncated) and crisp within.Dust staining to edges of text block. (Inventory #: 31717)