Feb 25, 2016 - Sale 2406

Sale 2406 - Lot 115

Price Realized: $ 45,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 25,000 - $ 35,000
GARRY WINOGRAND (1928-1984)
A portfolio entitled 15 Big Shots. With 15 (of 15) photographs of luminaries, pop culture figures, artists, and politicians, including JFK, Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe, Hugh Hefner, Muhammad Ali, and Richard Nixon, each captured with Winogrand's signature street style. Silver prints, each approximately 12 1/4x18 1/2 inches (31.1x47 cm.), and the reverse, each with Winogrand's signature and edition notation 15/100, in pencil, on verso. Elephant folio-sized bright yellow-gold cloth folding case with black lettering; the colophon with the edition notation 15/100 (of a projected edition of 115 total), in ink; contents loose as issued. Fraenkel Publications, 1955-81; printed 1983

Additional Details

No more than 30 copies of this portfolio were signed by the photographer before his death.

John F. Kennedy, Democratic National Convention, Los Angeles, 1960 Marilyn Monroe, "Seven Year Itch," set, New York City, 1955 Jackie Robinson, at home in Connecticut, 1961 Andy Warhol, Norman Mailer's 50th Birthday Party, New York City, 1973 Richard Nixon, Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles, 1969 Norman Mailer, 50th Birthday Party, New York City, 1973 John Huston, "Annie" set, Burbank, 1981 Nelson Rockefeller, Republican Headquarters on election night of Nixon Landslide, New York City, 1968 Hugh Hefner - Jesse Jackson, Operation PUSH Fundraiser, Chicago, 1972 Muhammad Ali - Oscar Bonavena Press Conference, New York City, 1970 George Wallace, Cotton Bowl, Dallas, 1964 Betty Friedan, opening at Whitney Museum, New York City, 1969 Diane Arbus, Love-In, Central Park, New York City, 1969 John Glenn - Walter Cronkite, State Dinner for Apollo XI Astronauts, Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles, 1969 Lyndon Johnson, Cape Kennedy, Florida, 1969.