A Time of Gods.

Born in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Beny graduated as Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa and travelled through Europe with the American School of Classical Studies. In 1956 at the invitation of Sir Herbert Read he staged his first major exhibition of photographs at the ICA. The publicity and acclaim which greeted this showing eventually led him to conceive and produce his first book of photographs, The Thrones of Earth and Heaven. With the commercial and critical success of the book, his vocation as a photographer and book designer were confirmed, and he subsequently developed a long and fruitful working relationship with Thames and Hudson.

4to. Original printed cloth in French-fold dustjacket. Nearly 150 photogravure plates, some tipped-in. Marginal browning, laminate lifting on the jacket, else very good.