Feb 21, 2019 - Sale 2499

Sale 2499 - Lot 156

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
DONALD BLUMBERG (1935- )
Portfolio entitled Twenty Daily Photographs, 1969-1970. With 20 appropriated images depicting newspaper coverage of the American military presence in Vietnam. Introduction by Blumberg. Photomechanical halftone prints, the images measuring 16 1/2x11 inches (41.9x27.5 cm.), the sheets 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.). Folio-sized printed blue envelope with Blumberg's signature, in ink, on the flap; contents loose as issued. 1971

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Bloomberg is an experimental American photographer whose media-derived works are in the collection of SFMoMA. He has had shows at numerous galleries, including a recent (2015) exhibition at the Yale University Art Gallery.