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DANE, BILL (1938- ) Group of 33 actual photo postcards, each with Dane's handwritten notations, a few discussing his show at the Fraenkel Gallery. Silver (30) and chromogenic (3) prints, sizes ranging from 4x6 to 5x7 inches (10.2x15.2 to 12.7x17.8 cm.), and the reverse, each with Dane's salutation and name and/or message, in ink, on verso, along with a postal cancellation mark; some contain a salutation and his name while others briefly address his travels, the news, or details of a show. 1976-1987
Dane is an American street photographer who is best known for printing and sending his photographs as postcards. One of the postcards is an invitation to Dane's show at the Fraenkel Gallery while a few others address another exhibition Garver was curating of Dane's work.
Szarkowski wrote of Dane's pictures: "It seems to me that the subject of Bill Dane's pictures is the discovery of lyric beauty in Oakland, or the discovery of surprise and delight in what we had been told was a wasteland of boredom, the discovery of classical measure in the heart of God's own junkyard, the discovery of a kind of optimism, still available at least to the eye." This lot includes an image Szarkowski bought for the Museum of Modern Art's collection.
