Feb 15, 2018 - Sale 2466

Sale 2466 - Lot 64

Price Realized: $ 13,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
LEWIS W. HINE (1874-1940)
Laborer on connector, Empire State Building. Silver contact print, the image measuring 4 3/4x3 5/8 inches (12.1x9.1 cm. ), the sheet slightly larger, with Hine's Interpretive Photography, Hastings-on-Hudson hand stamp and a numeric notation, in pencil, on verso. 1930-31

Additional Details

Originally from the Collection of Isador Sy Seidman.


Hine, Men at Work (Macmillan Comapny), front cover.

Kaplan, Photo Story, Selected Letters and Photographs of Lewis W. Hine (Smithsonian Institution Press), unpaginated.

Langer, Lewis W. Hine, The Empire State Building (Prestel Publishers), p. 88.

Steinorth, ed., Lewis Hine, Passionate Journey, Photographs 1905-1937 (Edition Stemmle), p. 200.