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William Herbert Mortensen ::

Art study for Selected Quatrains from ‘The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam with Camera Projections (*)’, 1925. (*) The photographer’s first book. This hand-bound title was produced by Mortensen while he was designing sets for a mid-1920′s production of the Rubaiyat entitled ‘A Lovers Oath’.

/ sources: Swann Galleries and the.red.list

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