Oct 17, 2014 - Sale 2361

Sale 2361 - Lot 264

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,500
DANE, BILL (1938- )
Group of 31 photographic postcards, each with Dane's notations. Silver (28) and chromogenic (3) prints in postcard-size format, nearly all measure 5x7 inches (12.7x17.8 cm.), or the reverse, each with Dane's handwritten salutation, name and/or message on verso, and a postal cancellation mark. 1980-84

Additional Details

with--Bill Dane. "Salt Lake City." Silver print, 9x13 1/2 inches (22.9x34.3 cm.), with Dane's signature, title, date, and inscription to Thomas Garver, in pencil, on verso. 1974.
From the Collection of Thomas Garver.

According to Patricia Bosworth, who penned a biography about Diane Arbus, "In class [Arbus] kept stressing the factual, the literal, the specificity inherent in photography. She loved Bill Dane's postcard photographs of American landscapes."