Jan 27, 2022 - Sale 2593

Sale 2593 - Lot 28

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500

(JOHN VACHON, JOHN COLLIER, ET ALIA)


A group of 5 F.S.A. portrait photographs, including three by Vachon, one by Collier, and one unidentified.
Silver prints, the images measuring 190.5x241.3 mm; 7 1/2x9 1/2 inches and slightly smaller, and the reverse, the sheets 203.2x254 mm; 8x10 inches, Vachon's vintage prints with the typed title and date, and the numeric notation, in pencil, one with Vachon's F.S.A. credit hand stamp; the unidentified print with a publication hand stamp with the title, date, and numeric notation, in pencil and ink; the later prints with the Library of Congress hand stamp, and the photographer's credit, title, date, and numeric notation, in pencil, on verso. 1938-43; two printed 1960s-70s.

Vachon's Rehabilitation Client, Guilford County, North Carolina, 1938 * Rehabilitation Client, Beaufort County, North Carolina, 1938 * Omaha Nebraska, 1938; printed later, Collier's Juan Lopez, the Mayor of the Town, Trampas, New Mexico, 1943; printed later, and an unknown photographer, Pocatello Yardmaster, circa 1940.