American Photographs: The First Century. From the Isaacs Collection in the National Museum of American Art. Untitled (Friends of Photography) and geography of San Francisco

and geography of San Francisco provided the initial "training ground" for his eye

Key Themes: The Irony of the American Dream

Published in 1979 by the Friends of Photography as Untitled 20

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was an excellent documentary photographer

American Photographs: The First Century. From the Isaacs Collection in the National Museum of American Art. Untitled (Friends of Photography) and geography of San FranciscoEdited by Merry A. Foresta. Smithsonian, 1996. Phenomenal photographs collected by Charles Isaacs, Jr., who provides an Afterword. 79 color plates plus more than 100 four color images. George Barker, William Bell, Charles Bierstadt, Elias Bonine, Mathew Brady, Annie Brigman, Alexander Gardner, Laura Gilpin. O. Pierre Havens; William Rau, Paul Haviland, F. Jay Haynes, Alexander Hesler, Pach Brothers, Lejaren Hillers, Lewis Hine, William Henry Jackson,