Feb 25, 2020 - Sale 2531

Sale 2531 - Lot 321

Price Realized: $ 5,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
(ALFRED STIEGLITZ.)
Souvenir Kodak Competition 1905.
With 10 mounted photographs (including one on the cover) by Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Anne Brigman, and others, as well as 20 photo reproductions by additional photographers. 4to, printed wrappers with a tied binding.
Rochester, New York, The Kodak City: Eastman Kodak Co., [1906 or 1907]

Additional Details

An early and exceedingly rare publication in which works by a host of Photo-Secession photographers were reproduced alongside images by lesser-known practitioners. Kodak's competition had surprising results: Stieglitz's photograph Kodaking placed fourth while Steichen won first prize.