Feb 19, 2015 - Sale 2374

Sale 2374 - Lot 58

Price Realized: $ 6,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
(BOURKE-WHITE, MARGARET) (1904-1971)
"Fort Peck Dam, Montana." Silver print, 16x13 3/4 inches (40.6x34.9 cm.), with Bourke-White's embossed facsimile signature blind stamp on recto, and with a limited edition of 50 hand stamp with the number 2/10, in pencil, as well as Bourke-White's credit, title, the dates, and Time Life copyright, also in pencil, in an unknown hand, on verso. 1936; printed 1995
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From a Private Collector in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Bourke-White's iconic image of Fort Peck Dam was featured on the front cover of LIFE Magazine's inaugural issue, on November 23, 1936. It was her first feature at the newly published picture magazine, and an important assignment: the Dam was a multi-million dollar project undertaken by the federally-funded Public Works Administration.


Margaret Bourke-White Photographer, p. 77; Margaret Bourke-White, The Photography of Design 1928-1936, p. 85.