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Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
EDWARD STEICHEN (1879-1973) Vauquois Mine Craters (Argonne Sector) over 2000 ft. in diameter. Circa 1918-19. Silver print, the image measuring 4½x8 inches (11.4x20.3 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Steichen's title in pencil on verso.
This photograph was taken when Steichen was a member of the Photographic Section, Air Service, of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I. The devastated region depicted, which lies to the northwest of Verdun, is now the site of the Memorial of the Defenders of the Argonne, which is engraved with the numbers of 275 French regiments, 18 Italian regiments, and 32 American divisions which saw service in the Argonne sector, and contains the remains of several thousand unknown soldiers.
