Books

One of four original draft maquettes made by Haskins. Besides this retained copy, the other three were used as presentation and sales tools to show to potential publishers and as a reference for technical production meetings with plate-makers and printers. Haskins's artistic estate is now owned and managed by his son Ludwig, who noted of the maquettes: "Each one was a huge labour of love - Sam made all the silver prints, designed the books and assembled each maquette personally - so you can imagine that put an upper limit on the quantity." Two of the images found in this maquette were not used in the final production of the book, to which a few not present here were added. Cowboy Kate was one of the first photobooks to present a purely fictional narrative and is regarded by many as a benchmark in the history of photobooks. It was highly influential at the time, sold roughly a million copies worldwide, and won the Prix Nadar in France in the year of its publication. It continues to influence contemporary photographers, filmmakers, fashion designers, and makeup artists. In 2005, it was included by the International Center of Photography in New York in their exhibition "The Open Book: A History of the Photographic Book from 1878 to the Present". Quarto. Silver gelatin prints and dummy text pages collated with brown paper. With 56 double-page spreads made up of one or more silver gelatin prints taped to each other or brown paper, in varying sizes, bound as a book. Photographic images in various condition, all annotated with page numbers, some with other notes.

A groundbreaking collection of photographs by Sam Haskins, published in 1964, celebrated for its inventive use of sequence and narrative within the photo book format.