May 14, 2009 - Sale 2180

Sale 2180 - Lot 364

Price Realized: $ 2,706
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
PERESS, GILLES (1946- )
Portfolio entitled "Flashpoints," containing 12 powerful images of war-torn countries. Silver prints, 12 1/2x19 inches (31.8x48.3 cm.), with Peress' signature, title and date, in pencil, on verso. Atlas folio, silver-stamped black clamshell case; each photograph individually matted; contents loose as issued. 1972-1995; printed 1996

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"Sick, Abandoned, Rwandan Hutu Children in a Dispensary, Goma, Zaire," 1994 "Rwandan Hutu Refugees Waiting for Medical Attention, Benaco, Tanzania," 1994 "Massacre Site, Nyarubuye, Rwanda," 1994 "Bosnian Muslim Refugees from Banja Luca Arriving at a Dispatching Center, Travnik, Bosnia," 1993 "Evacuation of the Jews, Skanderia, Sarajevo, Bosnia," 1993 "The Beginning of the Krajina War, a Church Ransacked by the Retreating Serb Forces, Near Knin, Krajina, Croatia," 1995 "Women in the Courtyard of the Main Mosque, Quom, Iran," 1979 "A Pro-Khomeini Demostration in a Stadium, Tabriz, Iran," 1979 "Posters in Front of the US Embassy, Teheran, Iran," 1979 "On the Loyalist Shankill Road, Belfast, Ireland," 1981 "First Snow in Ardoyne, a Nationalist Neighborhood, Belfast, Ireland," 1981 "Bloody Sunday, Derry, Ireland," 1972.