(AMERICAN PICTURES) costa stanley

Sale 2097 - Lot 468

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Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500

(AMERICAN PICTURES) costa, stanley
Box containing approximately 500 original photographs depicting Manhattan street views as well as pictures throughout the U.S., including snow scenes, architecture, pastorals, occupationals, seasonal studies, and more. Silver prints, 10x8 inches (20.4x25.4. cm.), each housed in a Kraft sleeve, many with Costa's imprint, containing handwritten notations indicating location, date of production, an inventory number, and publications where the picture appeared; some multiples. 1940s-70s

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Stanley Costa was a successful New York portrait photographer. During the summers he took a busman's holiday, photographing non-stop across the U. S. A. He worked with several publications, regularly selling reproduction rights to his prints.