First edition. Published to accompany an exhibition at The Hague Museum of Photography, January-April 2010. The Leiden collection is the oldest and largest museum collection in the Netherlands. Includes 'classic' photographers such as Stieglitz and Arbus, as well as contemporary photography. Highlights the development of photography as an art form. Frontispiece, introductory essays, mostly black and white with some color plates, selected bibliography, selection of sub-collections according to provenance and theme, index. Boards bumped at lower fore-edge corner.