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A nice first edition/first printing in about Fine condition, trace sunned at caps, in alike dust-jacket. From the collection of Betty Anderson, legendary art director of publisher Knopf in the late 20th century;

Francis Joseph Bruguière was a French photographer considered one of the pioneers of photojournalism. He was born in 1881 in the town of Poitiers, in the Deux-Sèvres department of western France. After working as a stagehand and laborer, he began taking photographs in the early 1920s. He became known for his candid, often dramatic photographs of people, places, and events in Europe and the Middle East during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Bruguière died in Paris in 1978.; B&W Photographs; 8vo.