ALBOK JOHN (1894 1982) Wall Street and Lower Manhattan from

Sale 2208 - Lot 85

Price Realized: $ 3,840

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Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500

ALBOK, JOHN (1894-1982)
"Wall Street and Lower Manhattan from the Chrysler Building, New York City." Silver print, 14x17 1/2 inches (35.6x44.5 cm.), with Albok's signature, in ink, on mount recto and his hand stamp on mount verso. Circa 1933

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Acquired from Charles Schwartz, New York in 1999.
The Photograph and the American Dream 1840-1940, 183.
This image touches every aspect of the American Dream. The big sky of early American landscape painting looms over the city of progress and opportunity. Albok was an immigrant tailor from Hungary, shooting from what was then the world's second-tallest building. His photographs are in the permanent collections of prestigious institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Museum of the City of New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Dallas Museum of Art.