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HARRY WARNECKE (1900-1984) Group of approx. 50 commercial color photographs of cultural icons, including Hollywood celebrities, star athletes, politicians, and outdoor celebratory scenes. This group is credited to Harry Warnecke and his associates at the Daily News, who created brilliant portraits for the newspaper's Sunday News magazine. Much of the group is comprised of portraits of movie stars (Gregory Peck, Rosemary Clooney, Fred Astaire, Jack Lemmon, Joan Crawford, William Holder, Danny Kaye, Kirk Douglas, and others) and other entertainment celebrities (Ed Sullivan and Abbott & Costello). Also featured are portraits of athletes (4: the baseball player Hank Greenberg, Glenn Davis, Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox, and Joe Medwick) and politicians (7: interestingly, a copy of an Abraham Lincoln portrait, as well as President Roosevelt and then General Eisenhower). The collection includes some candid or editorial imagery as well, including the National Diving champion swan diving (Florida) off a high diving board, a trio water skiing in Florida, the Festival of States (Florida) parade, Santa Claus on 42nd Street in New York, a Palm Beach beach scene, the Jupiter Lighthouse (Palm Beach), and two Navy images. Tri-color carbo prints, the images measuring 16 3/4x13 inches (42.5x33 cm.), and smaller, and the reverse, most of the sheets slightly larger, 13 mounted or in period mats, many with the subject's name or a caption and some with Warnecke's (and his associates') credit and a date in ink or pencil. 1930s-50s
Provenance: The Estate of Richard T. Rosenthal, Philadelphia
Harry Warnecke's vivid color photographs are as arresting now as they were to consumers of The New York Daily News' Sunday Magazine at the time, color photography being essentially unheard of in publications' pages. A laborious undertaking, the tri-color carbo process meant simultaneously exposing three negatives through different color filters. Warnecke (who worked alongside Robert F. Cranston and Gus Schoenbachler) designed and built a one-shot camera of his own, creating portraits that were vibrant and vivid both in tone and mood.
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