Feb 26, 2009 - Sale 2171

Sale 2171 - Lot 220

Price Realized: $ 600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(FILM.) PARKS, GORDON. Twelve Years a Slave; Gordon Parks's own Scrap Book from the making of this film. Photo album, 4to with 33 8x10 glossy photographs, a map of the setting of the film, and a page of shooting cues. Savannah, New Orleans, and Saratoga Springs [1983]

Additional Details

Gordon Parks received a Cine Golden Eagle Award for his film version of Solomon Northup''s authentic slave narrative, Twelve Years a Slave, originally published in 1855. Northup''s escape carried him from Savannah to New Orleans to freedom in upstate New York. This scrap book was assembled by Ted Watkins, one of the camera-men for the film.