WELTY EUDORA Portfolio entitled Eudora Welty 20 Photographs

Sale 1907 - Lot 446

Price Realized: $ 11,500

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Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000

WELTY, EUDORA
Portfolio entitled "Eudora Welty, 20 Photographs." Silver prints, 11x14 inches and smaller, printed from negatives made by Welty in the late 1930s-40s, with the edition number, in pencil, on mount recto. A presentation booklet signed by the writer-photographer, in ink, with an introduction by her and list of images laid in. Folio-size gilt-lettered cloth clamshell box; contents loose as issued. Palaemon Press Limited; Mississippi, 1980

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Chosen from hundreds of snapshots taken in Mississippi during the Depression, Welty wrote of her desire to "capture -- rescue from oblivion -- fellow human beings caught in the act of living."