Oct 20, 2022 - Sale 2618

Sale 2618 - Lot 222

Unsold
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
(MAGNUM--CAPA, RODGER, CARTIER-BRESSON, CHIM)
Magnum Founders, In Celebration of Sixty Years Portfolio. A sewn-bound portfolio complete with 12 platinum prints, including three each by Robert Capa, George Rodger, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and David "Chim" Seymour, four of the original seven founders of Magnum Photos. The edition also includes a free-standing platinum print by Capa, Pablo Picasso, Françoise Gilot and Javier Vilato, France, 1951. Foreword by Elliott Erwitt. Platinum prints, the images measuring 9 3/4x6 1/2 to 10 1/8x8 inches (24.8x16.5 to 25.7x20.3 cm.), and the reverse, each with the photographer's Estate blind stamp on recto. Oversize hand-bound black leather folio, the debossed title on the front cover; with signatures from the 2007 Magnum Photographers, and the edition number 62 (of 75), in pencil, in the rear of the book; housed in a black buckram covered clamshell portfolio box with the printed title on the front. Verso Editions, 2007