Beny, Roloff. The Pleasure of Ruins. Photographs by Roloff Beny. Text by Rose Macaulay selected and edited by Constance Babington Smith. Camera Magazine became the definitive reference work

became the definitive reference work of its time

The book provides a visual archive of the turn-of-the-century Gilded Age along the New Jersey coastline

his abstract cloud Equivalents

Stark Geometry and the Banishment of Color

this book "considers the relation of photography to art

Beny, Roloff. The Pleasure of Ruins. Photographs by Roloff Beny. Text by Rose Macaulay selected and edited by Constance Babington Smith. Camera Magazine became the definitive reference workThames and Hudson, 1966. First edition, hardcover illustrated boards, ex library, no dust jacket, covers very good with some shelf wear. Custom made polyester jacket. Rear flyleaf has scuffs where card pocket removed. Corner crease on second page after front flyleaf. Top of spine has some wear. 12 tipped in color plates plus excellent full page monochrome reproductions in photogravure and 29 maps and plans. Archaeological sites photographed by Beny in