"Ambassadors of Progress: American Women Photographers in Paris 1900-1901," published by University Press of New England, 2001, 202 pages, large hardcover with dust jacket, 12.25" by 9.5". Superb book profiling a lost body of Pictorialist photography, from the archives of Frances Benjamin, a major benefactress to the Library of Congress. The book, produced for a joint French-American exhibition, showcases Pictorialist work from a presentation of nearly 30 American women photographers in the 1900 Universal Exposition in Paris. Extensively researched, detailing the relationship between French and American Pictorialism and the emergence of women in photographic societies and salons in America, and generously illustrated with numerous textual plates and 77 full-page color plates - superb reproductions. Features work by Gertrude Kasebier, Alice Austin, Sarah Sears, Zaida Ben-Yusef, N. Gray Bartlett, Emma Farnsworth, and Sarah Jane Eddy, among others, all of whom are features in extensive biographic profiles in the rear. Most impressive book, very highly recommended. In MINT condition, still sealed.
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