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Ansel Adams: Sierra Junipers, Upper Merced Basin, Yosemite Valley1922/1927, Parmelian print, unsigned. Image size: 5.75"x7.75", sheet size: 10"x12" ($2,000–$4,000) — Starting Bid: $1,000
Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras is a portfolio of 18 silver gelatin photographic prints made by Ansel Adams in 1927. It was the first publication of a portfolio of his prints, produced not long after he decided to become a professional photographer. As a member of the Sierra Club in the 1920s, Adams joined the Club's annual month-long High Trips in the Sierra in addition to making several trips on his own. During these trips he captured large-format black-and-white images of many of the region's well-known features. The best known of these images is Adams' first masterpiece: Monolith, the Face of Half Dome. The photographs he took on these trips became the core of the Parmelian Prints portfolio. When the portfolio was published it included the statement "One Hundred and Fifty Copies Printed by the Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, August MCMXXVII". Adams estimated that only about 100 were completed. Of these, an unknown number were later destroyed in a warehouse fire; it is thought that no more than 75 copies were ever delivered to clients. Adams himself printed each of the images for the portfolios on Kodak Vitava Athena Grade T Parchment paper, which was both cream-colored and translucent due to the thinness of the paper.
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Mariette Pathy Allen: Kylie and Dakota in their Minnie Mouse car.2020, archival pigment print, ed. 12, signed and numbered verso. Image size: 14.5"x22", sheet size: 18"x26" ($1,400–$2,800) — Starting Bid: $500
Courtesy of the artist and ClampArt, New York City.
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David Allison: PA Project II #302017, archival pigment print, signed, dated, and numbered recto, initialed, titled, and dated on mat verso. Image size: 12.75"x19.375", sheet size: 17"x22" ($450–$900) — Starting Bid: $250
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Frank Armstrong: Vaughn, New Mexico1991, silver print. Image size: 8"x10", sheet size: framed 20"x16" ($500–$1,000) — Starting Bid: $250
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Laurence Bach: Assemblage #31982, silver print, signed, titled, and dated recto. Image size: 16"x12.375", sheet size: 24"x20" ($500–$1,000) — Starting Bid: $300
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Dr. Bachman: Birch Treesc. 1905, colored halftone. Image size: 5.875"x4.5", sheet size: 11.5"x8.25" ($100–$200) — Starting Bid: $50
From Art in Photography, 1905 edited by Charles Holme.
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Édouard Baldus: La Ponte de la Santec. 1860, salt print, signature in print recto. Image size: 17.375"x13.375", sheet size: 17.375"x13.375" ($4,500–$6,000) — Starting Bid: $3,000
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John A. Benigno: Philadelphia City Hall Detail XVII2019/2020, archival pigment print, ed. 3/25, signed verso. Image size: 9.5"x7", sheet size: 13"x11" ($300–$600) — Starting Bid: $125
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Graystone Bird: Summer Landscapec. 1905, halftone. Image size: 4"x5.5", sheet size: 11.5"x8.25" ($100–$200) — Starting Bid: $50
From Art in Photography, 1905 edited by Charles Holme.
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Francis Bolton: Boy in Sailor Suitca. 1900, carbon print. Image size: 8.125"x6.125", sheet size: 8.375"x6.375" ($250–$500 — Starting Bid: $125)
Francis Bolton (1866–1951) became a member of the Royal Photographic Society and began exhibiting regularly with this important group beginning in 1896 and continued until 1901. He later received the Society's highest award of distinction when the group named him a fellow (F.R.S.P.) in 1899. He was invited to join the Linked Ring on October 30, 1900. Bolton exhibited at least nine images in four Linked Ring exhibitions in 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1902.
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Elena Bouvier: Bruce Seldon: Speed Bag1996, silver print, ed. 1/2, signed, titled, and numbered recto. Image size: 12"x18", sheet size: framed 20.25"x"x26" ($500–$1,000) — Starting Bid: $250
Known as "The Atlantic City Express," Bruce Seldon is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1988 to 1996, and 2004 to 2009. He held the WBA heavyweight title from 1995 to 1996, most notably losing to Mike Tyson via knockout in his second defense.
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Marilyn Bridges: New Yorker, NYC2000, selenium-toned silver print, ed. 1/20, signed verso. Image size: 18"x22", sheet size: 20"x24" ($3,000–$4,800) — Starting Bid: $2,000
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Howard Brunner: 2019-12108172019, archival pigment print, AP #1, ed. 10 + 2 AP, signed verso. Image size: 15"x20", sheet size: 17"x22' ($250–$500) — Starting Bid: $100
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Charmaine Caire: Two Girls (Recline)2012, archival pigment print, signed, titled, and dated verso. Image size: 14.5"x12.25", sheet size: 19"x13" ($300–$600) — Starting Bid: $200
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Paul Cava: Hermaphrodite in the Age of Corona, ed. 102020, archival pigment print, signed recto. Image size: 15.375"x11.25", sheet size: 19"x13" ($1,200–$1,800) — Starting Bid: $800
With the book Paul Cava: Photographs/Collages/Montages.
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Paul Cava: Photographs/Collages/Montages
Carl Chiarenza: Untitled 141, 20072007, silver print, signed on mat and mount recto. Image size: 13.125"x10.25", sheet size: 14"x11" ($600–$1,200) — Starting Bid: $450
p. 117, Carl Chiarenza: Pictures from Pictures, 2008, David R. Godine Publisher, Boston; reproduced in Lenswork No. 79, Nov-Dec 2008, pp.1, 86; exhibited at Image City Gallery, Rochester, NY, 2009
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Stephen Coan: Dancer1997, silver print, ed. 1/25, signed, titled, dated, and numbered verso. Image size: 19.5"x15.5", sheet size: framed 27.5"x23.5" ($400–$800) — Starting Bid: $200
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Mathew Brady or Associate (attrib.): Confederate Prisoners Belle Plain, Va. Awaiting (exchange) trains. Part of Johnson's Div. May 12, 1864. Handy.1864, albumen print, title and notations on mount verso. Image size: 6.5"x8", sheet size: 7.75"x9.125" ($800–$1,200) — Starting Bid: $400
This picture comes through Levin Handy, Brady's nephew. Identified in pencil on the back in Handy's hand and signed by Handy.
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Andrew Joseph Russell: Pontoon Bridge, Deep Bottom, James River1861–65, albumen print, title and notations on mount verso. Image size: 6.5"x8", sheet size: 7.75"x9.125" ($800–$1,200) — Starting Bid: $400
This picture comes through Levin Handy, Brady's nephew. Identified in pencil on the back in Handy's hand. A print of this photograph is in the collection of the MET.