BELLMER, HANS. La Poupée. With 10 silver prints of Bellmer's doll in various poses, mounted on card and bound in as issued. one of 100 copies.(Paris): (G.L.M.), 1936 Estimate:$50,000-75,000
Photographic Literature & Photographs
Auction: – 11 Dec 2008
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SIGNED BY CARTIER-BRESSON CARTIER-BRESSON, HENRI. The Decisive Moment. Illustrated with full-page gravure reproductions of Cartier-Bresson's important photographs. Folio, pictorial boards designed by Henri Matisse, first American edition, signed and inscribed by Cartier-Bresson. New York: Simon & Schuster/Éditions Verve, (1952) Estimate:$12,000-18,000
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Picture archive containing more than 20,000 abstract and architectural photographs depicting the American pastoral landscape. The prints are by a talented commercial photographer and have been organized into 20 different subject headings, and include the original medium- and large-format negatives. Silver prints, 10x8 inches (25.4x20.3 cm.), and the reverse, some with grease pencil marks on recto and handwritten notations and/or hand stamps on verso. 1950s-1970s [REFER TO DEPT.] Estimate:$0-0
THE RARE SPECIAL EDITION FRIEDLANDER, LEE. The American Monument. Illustrated with over 200 reproductions of Friedlander's landscape photographs. Oblong folio, red cloth with a gilt-lettered leather backstrip; in the original blue card box. Roth 236; Parr/Badger II 28; Hasselblad 310; Auer 600. deluxe edition, one of 150 copies issued with a signed photograph.New York: Eakins Press Foundation, (1976) Estimate:$7,000-10,000