May 16, 2024 - Sale 2669

Sale 2669 - Lot 312

Price Realized: $ 5,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
ROBERT A. CUMINS (1948- )
World Trade Center, September 11, 2001. Digital print, the image measuring 14⅛x21¼ inches (35.9x54 cm.), the sheet 20x24 inches (50.8x61 cm.), with Cumins' signature in ink on recto and his signature and negative date in ink on verso. 2001; printed later

This image, which captured the approach of the second plane to the South Tower, appeared on the cover of People magazine as well as other media around the world. The image won the National Press Photographers Association's "Picture of the Year" award and remains the highest selling issue of the magazine ever (it was also the first fold-out cover). The work is offered here with a copy of the September 24th, 2001 issue of People, also signed by Cumins.