Feb 14, 2017 - Sale 2436

Sale 2436 - Lot 282

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(NEW YORK--GROCERY SHOPPING)
A suite of 31 photographs depicting grocery shelves and aisles fully stocked with an array of packaged and fresh food and other household products such as cameras, bicycles, and cosmetics.
With images showing stacks of packaged cookies, hundreds of condiment bottles, piles of potatoes, and an overflowing refrigerated section of green grapes. The photographs apparently depict 2 separate stores, both very period in their design. Chromogenic prints, the images each measuring 8x10 inches (20.3x25.4 cm.), and the reverse, a few with the photographer's hand stamp on verso. 1960s-70s

Additional Details

The stores depicted in the photographs are Waldbaum's grocery store, which mainly operated within New York City's five boroughs during the 1960s, and Masters, a department store located on Main Street in Flushing, Queens, during the 1970s.

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