Portfolio: An Intercontinental Quarterly

Portfolio: An Intercontinental Quarterly
Five of the six covers showing the folios used to publish the loose sheets contained in each issue.
Five of the six covers showing the folios used to publish the loose sheets contained in each issue.
EditorCaresse Crosby
CategoriesFolio
FrequencyBiannual
Circulation1000
First issueSpring 1945
Final issue
Number		Summer 1947
VI
CompanyBlack Sun Press
CountryUnited States
Based inWashington, D.C.
LanguageEnglish

Portfolio: An Intercontinental Quarterly was a cross-disciplinary literary journal published between 1945 and 1947. It was edited by Caresse Crosby and published through her Black Sun Press. Only six issues were published, each totaling about 1000 copies. Each issue was a series of loose sheets contained in a folio, lavishly illustrated, and printed in limited numbers. Contributors included many avant-garde authors, architects, photographers, and illustrators who were prominent in their respective fields, including individuals like Albert Camus (who contributed "Letter to a German Friend," his first appearance in an English-language publication),[1] architect Luigi Moretti,[2] artist Pablo Picasso,[1] and photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, along with emerging writers like Charles Bukowski.[3] It introduced American readers to many authors who later became famous.[4]

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