Oct 19, 2017 - Sale 2458

Sale 2458 - Lot 367

Price Realized: $ 1,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
YASUSHI NAGAO (1930-2009)
Otoya Yamaguchi assassinating Japanese Socialist Party politician Inejiro Asanuma.
Ferrotyped silver print, the image measuring 7 1/2x9 1/2 inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with a mimeographed caption label and a hand stamp, on verso. 1960

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Nagao won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and the 1960 World Press Photo of the Year awards for this photograph.