Jan 30, 2025 - Sale 2692

Sale 2692 - Lot 163

Unsold
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000

(FARM SECURITY ADMINISTRATION)


A portfolio of F.S.A. photographs, including images by Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Arthur Rothstein, and Ben Shahn. 1935-36; printed circa 1975 under the supervision of Arthur Rothstein.
With 10 (of 10) iconic photographs from the Farm Security Administration, each printed under the supervision of Arthur Rothstein. Silver prints, the images measuring 203 mm square to 302x210 mm; 8 inches square to 11⅞x8¼ inches, the sheets 279x355 mm; 11x14 inches, each with a credit, title, date, and RA number stamp, and all but three with the printer's portfolio stamp, on verso; not including original printed paper title folder. FROM A LIMITED EDITION. The Photographic Historical Society of New York Inc., 1975

Dorothea Lange's Hoe Culture, 1936 * Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936; Arthur Rothstein's Farmer and Wife, Colorado, 1939 * Dust Storm, Cimarron County, Oklahoma, 1936 * Sharecropper's Wife and Child, Arkansas, 1935 * Badlands, South Dakota, 1936; Walker Evans' Bud Fields Family, Alabama, 1936 * Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1935; and Ben Shahn's Sheriff's Deputy, Morgantown, W. Va., 1935 * Linworth, Ohio, 1935

Provenance
The Collection of Neil Robert Berzak