Apr 20, 2017 - Sale 2443

Sale 2443 - Lot 54

Price Realized: $ 13,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
(LEWIS W. HINE) (1874-1940)
Powerhouse Mechanic. Silver print, the image measuring 10x8 inches (25.4x20.3 cm.), dry mounted to an archival board measuring 12x10 inches (30.5x25.4 cm.). 1920-21; printed 1940s-50s

Additional Details

"Power Makers: Work Portraits by Lewis W. Hine," The Survey Graphic, December 31, 1921, Volume XLVII, No. 14, p. 511; Steinorth, ed., Lewis Hine: Passionate Journey, Photographs 1905-1937 (Zurich), cover and p. 159; Sampsell-Willmann, Lewis Hine as Social Critic (University Press of Mississippi, 2009), cover; Kaplan, ed., Photo Story: Selected Letters and Photographs of Lewis W. Hine (Washington), cover and unpaginated; "A Camera Interpretation of Labor," The Mentor, September 1926, Vol. 14, No. 8, p. 46.