Feb 26, 2004 - Sale 1998

Sale 1998 - Lot 274

Price Realized: $ 978
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(PHOTOGRAPHY.) Bourke-White, Margaret. Pair of untitled photographs taken for a study of the relative social conditions and class in America, silver prints in 8x10 inch format; with inked stamp of Life Magazine on verso; matted. Np, (1949)
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These photographs were part of a story that Life magazine was preparing on class in America. They show, by contrast, poor whites and blacks in a trailer park, and the modest home of a working-class black family.