(MAGNUM) Magnum Founders Portfolio

Sale 2393 - Lot 263

Price Realized: $ 7,800

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000

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"Magnum Founders Portfolio." With 14 (of 14) photographs, including 4 each by Robert Capa and George Rodger, and 3 each Henri Cartier-Bresson and David "Chim" Seymour, four of the original seven founders of Magnum Photos. Foreword by Elliott Erwitt. Platinum prints, image sizes from 9 3/4x6 1/2 to 10 1/8x8 inches (24.8x16.5 to 25.7x20.3 cm.), and the reverse, each with the respective photographer's Estate blindstamp, on recto. Oversized hand-bound black leather folio, with the debossed title on the front cover; with signatures from the 2007 Magnum Photographers, and the edition number 24/40, in pencil, in the rear of the book; housed in a black cloth covered clamshell portfolio box with the printed title on the front; encased in a custom-crafted clamshell walnut box, with the title on an engraved brass placquard, on the top. 2007

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"Magnum is a community of thought, a shared human quality, a curiosity about what is going on in the world, a respect for what is going on and a desire to transcribe it visually." —Henri Cartier-Bresson.