Great Salt Lake Portfolio

[Salt Lake City, UT], 1979. SIGNED. Large portfolio containing five loose leaves and eleven mounted photographs. The photographs, most measuring close to 9 x 7", are mounted on high-quality mount boards with slipsheets and precut mats [16 x 13"]. Housed in a linen clamshell that measures 17 x 14". The box is in very good condition with some warping, and a 1 1/2" split in the cloth at the foot of the front joint. The loose leaves are lightly creased and the mats have occasional pencil scores. The photographs are in fine condition. With regards to the first plate, Wallace Stegner writes in his essay Xanadu by the Salt Flats: Memories of a Pleasure Dome, "Mr. Telford has inserted a print made from a glass-plate negative by C. R. Savage. It is a print of superb quality, from a superb negative, and it shows the Saltair pavilion as it looked around 1905." The remaining ten plates are all by John Telford. Telford has penciled in the title and number of each print on the mount boards. He has also signed his name in pencil on the mount boards of the prints that he produced. Colberg B130. Instructions for care and handling laid in. The Great Salt Lake Portfolio was designed by Katy Homans. The box was made by The Harcourt Bindery. The photographs are the product of five years work on the shores of the Great Salt Lake. It is stated on the colophon that the portfolio was "produced in November 1979 in an edition of 75 with 10 artists proofs of which this is number 13." Signed by John Telford below the limitation.

"Everything about Great Salt Lake is bizarre and contradictory. Remnant though it is, it is still the biggest lake west of the Mississippi. In a land where water is more precious than diamonds, this lake seventy-five miles long and fifty miles wide provides not a single oasis; it offers little recreation or refreshment, and though it has been on the map as long as America has been a nation, it remains almost unknown." - Wallace Stegner.