Sale 2692 - Lot 162
Price Realized: $ 2,000
Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
(LEE; DELANO; MYDANS, ET AL.)
Group of more than 50 F.S.A. photographs. 1936-42; printed circa 1970.
A diverse group of images, all reproduced in Stuart Cohen's The Likes of Us: Photography at the Farm Security Administration. Silver prints, the images measuring 165x178 to 190x241 mm; 6½x7 to 7½x9½ inches, and the reverse, the sheets slightly larger, each with the photographer's credit, caption, date, and the RA number or other numeric notation in pencil in an unknown hand(s), and the Library of Congress stamp, on verso; each print is housed in a sleeve, all with "The Likes of Us" sticker detailing a page number and a second sticker with the Library of Congress number and title.
Includes Russell Lee (35) * Jack Delano (9) * Carl Mydans (4) * Theodor Jung (2) * Dorothea Lange (one) * Carter (one) * Rosskam (one) * John Collier (one).
See:
Stuart Cohen, The Likes of Us: Photography and the Farm Security Administration (David Godine, 2008)
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