May 15, 2008 - Sale 2146

Sale 2146 - Lot 39

Price Realized: $ 24,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 12,000 - $ 18,000
CAMERA WORK. Number 48. Edited by Alfred Stieglitz. With a total of 15 images, comprising 6 modernist plates of New York by paul strand, 3 works by frank eugene, arthur lewis, and francis brugiere, and 6 halftone reproductions of exhibitions at "291" by Alfred Stieglitz. 4to, original gray wrappers, front cover detached, chipped; contents partially disbound. New York, 1916

Additional Details

From the collection of Milton Brown, a friend of Strand's, who was a prominent art historian; to a New York collector.

Brown wrote several essays about Strand's work, including the tribute that is reproduced in Aperture's paul strand, a retrospective monograph. In addition, Brown recorded an interview with Strand, in Philadelphia, a transcript of which is in the Strand Archive.


Includes Frank Eugene's "The Cat," Paul Strand's "Wall Street," "Telegraph Poles," and 4 images entitled "New York," Allen's "Winter," Brugiere's "A Portrait," Alfred Stieglitz's "Negro Art Exhibition (1914)," "Brancusi Sculpture (1914)," "German and Viennese Photography (1906)," "Picasso-Braque (1915)," and 2 images of the Nadelman exhibition (1915).