ADAM'S FIFTH RIB: A COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIES OF THE NUDE — By JOHN EVERARD — 1st Edition / 2nd Impression, 1936 — Art Deco Nude Photographs of Women, Scarce Publisher: Chapman & Hall, Ltd., London (1936)
Scarce 1936 edition of ADAM'S FIFTH RIB: A COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIES OF THE NUDE by John Everard. The boards and binding are solid and tight with light shelfwear. The pages and beautiful full-page black-and-white nude photographs are crisp and clean save for repaired tears and creases along the borders of page 27. John
Everard (born Edward Forward) was a First World War veteran and former tea
planter, who became a British press and studio photographer. He was a noted
photographer of nudes from the late 1920s until the early 1960s. Please see below for more information on Everard's life and work.
Biography
Everard
had a studio in Orange Street, London and was self-taught. The book Second
Sitting included photographs of a young Pamela Green. As early as 1939, Walter
Bird, John Everard and Horace Roye had decided that they were giving each other
too much competition. To resolve that difficulty they decided to cooperate, and
they set up a company called Photo Centre Ltd. They made their headquarters in
a suite of rooms above Walter Bird's studio in Savile Row, and Eves without Leaves
was their first joint publication. [Wikipedia]
