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Lot 24

Margaret Bourke-White
(1904-1971)
Selected Images 18

6 April 2023, 13:00 EDT
New York

US$6,000 - US$8,000

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Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971)

Selected Images, 1930s - 1940s
A group of 18 gelatin silver prints, including 1 attributed to Bourke-White and 1 portrait of Bourke-White by an unidentified photographer; many with the photographer's credit stamp, 1 with Fortune stamps, and some initialed or annotated in pencil on the verso (18)
The largest 10 ½ x 13 ¼ in. (26.7 x 33.7 cm.)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Private collection
Acquired by descent to the present owner

Literature:
Sean Callahan, Margaret Bourke-White: Photographer (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1998), p. 86

Note
This group of Margaret Bourke-White photographs encapsulates the photojournalist's work while she was at 'Fortune' magazine in the early 1930s and 'LIFE' magazine in the later 1930s and '40s. Much of the collection is comprised of World War II-era images, many taken in Czechoslovakia around 1938. American subjects include the 1940 opening of the Queens Midtown Tunnel in New York. A portrait of Bourke-White by an unidentified photographer shows her hard at work under her camera hood.

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