Archive for May, 2023
Paul Caponigro’s White Deer
Posted on May 31, 2023 | No Comments
Paul Caponigro
Running White Deer & Standing White Deer
PAUL CAPONIGRO
Running White Deer, Wicklow County, Ireland. 1967
9 3/8″ x 23 3/4″ Gelatin silver print
Signed in pencil on mount and mat recto
PAUL CAPONIGRO
Standing White Deer, Wicklow, Ireland. 1967, printed before 1974
9 3/8″ x 13 1/2″ Signed gelatin silver print
PAUL CAPONIGRO
Standing White Deer, Wicklow, Ireland. 1967, printed 1993
7 3/8″ x 10 1/8″ Signed platinum print
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Remembering our troops this Memorial Day
Posted on May 29, 2023 | No Comments
HORACE BRISTOL
Searching for Shrapnel Wounds, Rescue at Rabaul, WWII
1944, printed later
9 3/4″ x 9 1/2″ Signed gelatin silver print
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Photographs by Horace Bristol
About PBY Blister Gunner, Rescue at Rabaul
Memorial Day Hours
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A Balanced Diet
Posted on May 24, 2023 | No Comments
CLARK JAMES MISHLER
Vegetable Stand. 1996, printed later
7 1/2″ x 11 1/4″ Signed & dated archival pigment print
PAUL CAPONIGRO
Galaxy Apple. 1964, printed later
7″ x 8 1/2″ Signed & editioned gelatin silver print
MARION POST WOLCOTT
A Member of Wilkins Family Making Biscuits. 1940, printed later
7 3/4″ x 9″ Signed & inscribed gelatin silver print
MACHIKO KURITA
Still Life #4118, Four Pears. 1999
4 3/4″ x 5 3/4″ Signed & editioned platinum print
ANONYMOUS
Untitled “Catch of the Day”. c. 1950s
3 3/8″ x 4 3/4″ Vernacular gelatin silver print
IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM
Three Vegetables (Fennel). 1946, printed early1970s
10 3/4″ x 13 1/2″ Signed & dated gelatin silver print
CHUCK CLOSE
Untitled, Sunflower. 1989
18″ x 23 1/4″ Signed, dated, & editioned dye diffusion transfer print
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Ansel Adams Photographs
Posted on May 18, 2023 | No Comments
Mount Williamson Sierra Nevada from Manzanar, California.
1944, printed early to mid 1950s
14 7/8″ x 18 1/8″ Signed, titled, and stamped gelatin silver print
Tetons from Southeast, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.
1942, printed early 1960s
7 5/8″ x 9 3/4″ Signed Special Edition gelatin silver print
Antelope House Ruin, Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Arizona.
1942, printed 1974
20″ x 16″ Signed gelatin silver print
Monolith, The Face of Half Dome.
1927, printed 1959
11″ x 8 1/8″ Signed gelatin silver print with Portfolio III stamp
Sand Dunes, Oceano, California.
1950, printed 1978
16″ x 20″ Signed gelatin silver print
Trailside, Near Juneau, Alaska.
c. 1947, printed 1970s
20″ x 16″ Signed gelatin silver print
Silverton, Colorado.
1951, printed 1974
15 1/4″ x 19 1/2″ Signed & numbered gelatin silver print with Portfolio VI stamp
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Salgado-Esque
Posted on May 17, 2023 | No Comments
Photographs by and in the style of Sebastião Salgado
SEBASTIÃO SALGADO
Military Police Patrolling the Gold Mine of Serra Pelada, Brazil. 1986, printed later
11 1/4″ x 17 1/2″ Signed, stamped, and dated gelatin silver print
SEBASTIÃO SALGADO
Cast of Thousands in the Gold Mine of Serra Pelada, Brazil. 1986, printed 2000
11 3/4″ x 17 3/8″ Signed, stamped, and dated gelatin silver print
MARC RIBOUD
Camel Market, Nagaur, Rajasthan, India. 1956, printed later
14 3/4″ x 20 1/4″ Signed and editioned gelatin silver print
SEBASTIÃO SALGADO
Iceberg Between Paulet Island and the Shetland Islands
on the Antarctic Canal, Antarctica. 2005, printed later
20″ x 24″ Signed and stamped gelatin silver print
PETER STACKPOLE
2nd Marine Division on the Beach, Saipan after Invasion, Marianas Islands.
1944, printed 1995, 17″ x 14″ Signed & dated gelatin silver print
HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON
Arena at Valencia, Spain. 1933, printed later
9 1/2″ x 14″ Signed gelatin silver print
W. EUGENE SMITH
Mad Eyes, Mental Patient, Haiti. 1958
13 1/8″ x 16″ Signed gelatin silver print
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Happy Mother’s Day
Posted on May 14, 2023 | No Comments
Happy Mother’s Day
From Scott Nichols Gallery
DOROTHEA LANGE, Portrait of a Young Girl and Mother.
1929, Vintage gelatin silver print
Signed and dated in pencil on mount recto
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Ted & Ed
Posted on May 11, 2023 | No Comments
Ted Cook with Contax, Laguna
A portrait by Edward Weston
EDWARD WESTON
Ted Cook with Contax, Laguna. 1937
9 5/8″ x 7 5/8″ Vintage gelatin silver print
Signed and dated in pencil on mount recto
This vintage 1937 original looks like it could have been taken today.
Who was Ted Cook?
We discovered that he was a journalist in Los Angeles. In 1923–1924 he worked as the editor in chief for the Los Angeles Record, and later wrote for the Los Angeles Examiner. He had his own nationally syndicated humor column “Cook-Coos” in the 1930s and ’40s. But he was also intertwined with the art scene, specifically photography.
In 1932, he was a member of the art committee for the New School for Social Research in Los Angeles, chaired by LA art critic Arthur Millier. The committee provided the platform to unveil Street Meeting, the first American fresco by Mexican painter David Alfaro Siqueiros. The mural was commissioned by and painted at the Chouinard School of Art in Los Angeles.
A few years later, in March 1935, we find Ted Cook now traveling to Mexico with Pancho Barnes and George Hurrell. They were on assignment: a paid editorial with photography about Mexico, funded by Dolores Del Rio. Ted Cook was the writer for the expedition. Hurrell’s career timeline mentions shooting photos with Edward Weston in January 1936, followed by another trip to Mexico for Hurrell and Cook in June 1936.
In the Edward Weston Archive at the Center for Creative Photography, they show a record of correspondence between Cook and Weston for a number of years. The two had become good friends.
With this timeline, we have additional context for the 1937 Edward Weston photograph Legs in Hammock, which shows Charis Wilson’s legs outstretched.
EDWARD WESTON
Legs in Hammock, Laguna. 1937
This vintage print is at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
It is inscribed “At Ted Cook’s” on the mount verso.
There is one Ted Cook photograph held by the Eastman Museum, dated c. 1943.
He is mentioned in the 2006 book A Staggering Revolution: A Cultural History of Thirties Photography by John Raeburn.
Ted Cook passed away in 1966 at the age of 74.
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Flowers for Mother’s Day
Posted on May 10, 2023 | No Comments
Floral Silhouettes
Photograms by Floris M. Neusüss
FLORIS M. NEUSÜSS
Untitled (Freesia). 1997
16 1/2″ x 11 5/8″ Initialed & dated gelatin silver print
FLORIS M. NEUSÜSS
Untitled (Calla Lily). 1998
16 1/2″ x 11 5/8″ Initialed & dated gelatin silver print
FLORIS M. NEUSÜSS
Untitled (Tulip). 1998
16 1/2″ x 11 5/8″ Initialed & dated gelatin silver print
FLORIS M. NEUSÜSS
Untitled (Bearded Iris). 1997
16 1/2″ x 11 5/8″ Initialed & dated gelatin silver print
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Floral Silhouettes
Posted on May 10, 2023 | No Comments
Photograms by Floris M. Neusüss
FLORIS M. NEUSÜSS
Untitled (Freesia). 1997
16 1/2″ x 11 5/8″ Initialed & dated gelatin silver print
FLORIS M. NEUSÜSS
Untitled (Calla Lily). 1998
16 1/2″ x 11 5/8″ Initialed & dated gelatin silver print
FLORIS M. NEUSÜSS
Untitled (Tulip). 1998
16 1/2″ x 11 5/8″ Initialed & dated gelatin silver print
FLORIS M. NEUSÜSS
Untitled (Bearded Iris). 1997
16 1/2″ x 11 5/8″ Initialed & dated gelatin silver print
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Off to the Races!
Posted on May 4, 2023 | No Comments
Saturday, May 6th
The 149th Annual Kentucky Derby
JOHN GOODMAN
Tuscan Shower. 1993, printed later
20″ x 24″ Selenium toned gelatin silver print
Signed, titled, and dated, printed in an edition of 10
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Dogs & Cats
Posted on May 2, 2023 | No Comments
BILL HEICK
Dog and Cat, Mendocino, California. 1947, printed later
10″ x 8″ Signed & dated gelatin silver print
ELLIOTT ERWITT
Ballycotton, Ireland. 1968, printed later
12″ x 7 3/4″ Signed gelatin silver print
IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM
Stalking a Prey (Reddog). c. 1965
9 3/4″ x 7″ Vintage gelatin silver print with Green Street label
WILLY RONIS
Le Chat Supris, Gordes. 1951, printed 1985
11 1/4″ x 9 3/8″ Signed gelatin silver print
BARBARA MORGAN
Tossed Cats. 1942, printed c. 1972
16″ x 20″ Signed, titled & dated gelatin silver print
WOLF von dem BUSSCHE
Dog on Terrace. 1970, printed 1979
15 1/2″ x 22″ Signed gelatin silver print
IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM
Quiet (Vivo). 1955
8 5/8″ x 7 1/2″ Vintage signed & dated gelatin silver print
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