Oct 17, 2014 - Sale 2361

Sale 2361 - Lot 128

Unsold
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,500
SMITH, W. EUGENE (1918-1978)
Man in radiation helmet, from the series "Life Without Germs." Silver print, 6 3/4x8 3/8 inches (17.1x21.3 cm.), with Smith's signature, with a stylus, on recto (in the image), and with his credit and copyright hand stamps, as well as additional hand stamps and notations, in ink, in Leslie Teicholz's hand, on verso. 1949; printed circa 1970
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From Vernon Merritt III (1940-2000), a staff photographer at Life Magazine from 1966-72.
The photographs in this series, done for Life Magazine, were taken at the University of Notre Dame's Laboratory of Bacteriology.
W. Eugene Smith, Master of the Photographic Essay, 10:010.