Highlights and Shadows

Highlights and Shadows is a 1937 first edition book edited by German-American photographer Arnold Genthe. Published in New York by Greenberg Publisher, this work serves as a significant collection of erotic and fine art photography, featuring numerous black-and-white plates of nudes produced by leading camera club photographers of the era, including Lionel Heyman, Lazlo Willinger, Riccardo Bettini, and Helene Deutch. The book is presented in a quarto format with approximately 100 full-page photographs. It is notable for its unique spiral-bound construction, which features a translucent or opaque acetate front cover and a paper rear cover. Each photographic study is accompanied by technical details regarding the camera, lens, development process, and paper used.