Burden, Shirley C. Presence: Photographs by Shirley C. Burden. Signed Copy Baldessari assigns musical values (melodies

Baldessari assigns musical values (melodies and chords) to the results

[Black and white moody photos by Burden

published by the Independence Foundation and printed by Valley Press

traditional art history credited the duo's pioneering images primarily to David Octavius Hill

elusive nature of modern historical documentation

Burden, Shirley C. Presence: Photographs by Shirley C. Burden. Signed Copy Baldessari assigns musical values (melodiesAperture, 1981. Preface by Thomas Keating. [Black and white moody photos by Burden, who was better known as an "angel" supporting fine art photographers than as a photographer. Photographs of cemeteries, Lourdes supplicants, a Trappist monastery, statues of the Madonna, Ellis Island, and Ireland.] Very good in hardcover with protected dust jacket with some fading on spine as typical with this dust jacket. Shirley Carter Burden (December 9, 1908 June