Paul Outerbridge
Howe, Graham; Preface by Robert Glenn Ketchum
Published by The Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Los Angeles CA, 1976. First Edition. Limited to 3000 copies of which "this is number"  (this copy is un-numbered) . Published on the occasion of the exhibition from the Los Angeles Bicentennial : Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, January 27-February 22, 1981. Paperbound wraps with lower spine head edge closed tear ; heavy foxing to rear wrap and light to last page; 40 pp.,Features a preface by Robert Glenn Ketchum along with an essay by Graham Howe. Illustrated throughout with numerous black and white plates.

"Paul Outerbridge, Jr. (August 15, 1896 – October 17, 1958) was an American photographer prominent for his early use and experiments in color photography.

Outerbridge was a fashion and commercial photographer, an early pioneer and teacher of color photography, and a creator of erotic nude photographs that could not be exhibited in his lifetime... Outerbridge then traveled to Paris and became friends with the artists and photographers Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, and Berenice Abbott. In Paris he produced a layout for the French Vogue magazine, met and worked with Edward Steichen, and built the largest, most completely equipped advertising photography studio of the time.

In 1929, 12 of Outerbridge's photographs were included in the prestigious German Film und Foto exhibition...Outerbridge's vivid color nude studies included early fetish photos and were too indecent under contemporary standards to find general public acceptanceA scandal over his erotic photography led to Outerbridge retiring as a commercial photographer and moving to Hollywood in 1943"