Oct 31, 2024 - Sale 2684

Sale 2684 - Lot 63

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
BEN SHAHN (1898-1969)
Child of Fortuna Family, Hammond, Louisiana. October 1935.
Silver print, the image measuring 6½x9½ inches (16.5x24.1 cm.), the sheet 8x10 inches (20.3x25.4 cm.), with Shahn's F.S.A. credit stamp and the Farm Security Administration stamp, the typed title and date, and the RA number in pencil on verso.

Reproduced
Archibald MacLeish, Land of the Free (1938), p. 81 (cropped)
Edward Steichen, The F.S.A Photographers (U.S Camera Annual, 1939), p. 57
F. Jack Hurley, Portrait of a Decade (1972), p. 53 (cropped)
Beverly Brannan & Gilles Mora, FSA: The American Vision (2006), p. 58