Feb 25, 2016 - Sale 2406

Sale 2406 - Lot 173

Price Realized: $ 4,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
SEBASTIÃO SALGADO (1944- ); MARION POST WOLCOTT (1910-1990)
Mother Jones International Fund for Documentary Photography, Portfolio Number One. With 4 (of 4) photographs, one each by Salgado, Wolcott, Ken Light, and Michelle Vignes. Silver prints, the Salgado measures 7x10 1/2 inches (17.8x26.7 cm.) and is on a sheet measuring 9 1/2x12 inches (24.1x30.5 cm.), and the others measure approximately 10x8 3/4 inches (25.4x22.2 cm.), and the reverse, and are on sheets measuring 14x11 inches (35.6x27.9 cm.), each with the photographer's signature, and all but the Wolcott also with the title and date, in pencil, on verso. Small folio-sized folding jacket, silver-stamped black cloth; the colophon with the edition number; contents loose as issued. number 24 from an edition of 50 sets. 1938-86; printed 1989

Additional Details

Marion Post Wolcott, Tenant farmer's children, the younger one with rickets. Near Wadesboro, North Carolina, 1938 Michelle Vignes, Beverly playing the blues, 1984 Ken Light, Three brothers, Oaxaca, Mexico, 1986 Sebastião Salgado, Brasil, 1983.

From Mother Jones; to a Private Collector, circa 1990.