Mar 23, 2010 - Sale 2208

Sale 2208 - Lot 72

Price Realized: $ 2,160
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
COSTER, GORDON H. (1906-1988)
"Pittsburgh." Silver bromide print, 9 3/4x13 1/2 inches (24.8x34.3 cm.), with Coster's stylized signature and title, in ink, on mount recto and his signature, title and notations, in pencil, on mount verso. Circa 1930

Additional Details

Acquired from Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York in 1991.
The Photograph and the American Dream 1840-1940, 151.

Gordon Coster (1906-1988) was a photojournalist whose works were regularly reproduced in LIFE magazine. His pictures were also included in The Family of Man (1955) exhibition, curated by Edward Steichen.