Sun Valley, Idaho

Photographs by Toni Frissell.

[Lakeside Press.] [New York.] [1940.] Illustrated folio, stapled wrappers. 4 pages of text with colour illustrations. 10 monochrome lens etchings by Toni Frissell, with title and signature printed in margins, loose in rear pocket. English. 415 x 330mm. 0.45kg. . Very good, with plates in near fine condition; the portfolio wrappers are lightly browned, there is some light soiling to the front and rear with a long brown mark to rear; text is clean; the plates are well preserved, there is one small crease to the lower forecorner of one plate not effecting the images.

A scarce portfolio of photographs by the fashion and sports photographer Toni Frissell (1907-1988), complete with 10 plates. Frissell was an important American photographer, working in the mid-20th Century. She worked as a fashion photographer for Vogue and Harper's Bazaar in the 1930s and 1940s and was one of the earliest photographers to take the models outside of the studio and into the open air. Later she moved into sports photography, revelling in capturing the vitality and wholesomeness of the American woman. These interests are embodied in the photographs she took for the Sun Valley portfolio. The portfolio and images were commissioned by the Union Pacific Railroad Company and the Sun Valley holiday resort in Idaho. The aim was to promote Sun Valley as the perfect destination for the winter season - 'Winter Sports under a Summer Sun'. Six of Frissell's photographs are of skiing; the other four capture swimming, bowling, ice-skating and apres-ski . Complete sets of the portfolio are scarce as the plates were often removed for framing.