Oct 15, 2015 - Sale 2393

Sale 2393 - Lot 286

Price Realized: $ 9,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 12,000 - $ 18,000
(AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHERS)
"Views of America." A portfolio containing 7 (of 7) photographs, with one photograph each by the great classical American photographers Ansel Adams, Harry Callahan, William Eggleston, Lotte Jacobi, Eliot Porter, James Van Der Zee, and Garry Winogrand. Silver prints (5), one dye-transfer print, and one chromogenic print, in sizes ranging from 9 1/2x7 1/2 to 13 1/8x8 3/4 inches (24.1x19.1 to 33.3x22.2 cm.), and the reverse, with Jacobi's and Van Der Zee's signatures, in ink or pencil, on recto; Adams' signature, in pencil, on mount verso, and the remaining 4 photographs with the photographers' signature, in pencil or ink, on verso. Elephant folio-sized dark blue clamshell box, with a silver stamped title on the cover. 1920-82; printed 1982

Additional Details

Ansel Adams, "Oaktree, Snowstorm, Yosemite National Park, California," 1982 William Eggleston, "Front Porch Swing," 1970 Lotte Jacobi, "Albert Einstein in Leather Jacket, Princeton, New Jersey," 1938; printed 1980 James Van Der Zee, "Untitled (Oddfellows Parade, 7th Avenue)," 1920; 1980 Garry Winogrand, "Fort Worth, Texas," 1974 Harry Callahan, "Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Fall," 1958-80 Eliot Porter, "Untitled," 1980s.

with—A letter of authenticity signed by Joan Adams Mondale, on letterhead from the Committee for the Future of America, which offered the portfolio as part of a fundraiser in 1982.