Selected Farm Security Administration Photographers (American, 20th Century) Portfolio of Ten Photographs: Including Dorothea Lange (Am

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Selected Farm Security Administration Photographers (American, 20th Century)

Portfolio of Ten Photographs:Including Dorothea Lange (American, 1895-1965),Migrant Mother and Hoe Culture; Walker Evans (American, 1903-1975),Bethlehem, PA, and Bud Field's Family; Ben Shahn (American, 1898-1969),Sheriff's Deputy and Linworth; and Arthur Rothstein (American, 1915-1985),Sharecropper's Wife and Child, Arkansas, Mr. and Mrs. Andy Bahain, Dust Storm, Cimarron County, Oklahoma, and The Bleached Skull of a Steer, 1935-36, printed c. 1976 by Berkey K&L, New York, under the supervision of Arthur Rothstein, published by the Photographic Historical Society of New York, Inc. Three stamped with photographer, title, date, and Rothstein and Berkey lab credits on the verso l.c. Gelatin silver prints, image sizes to 11 7/8 x 8 1/4 in. (30.0 x 21.0 cm),unmatted, unframed, housed in K&L box with printed folding cover sheet.
Condition: Good.

Provenance: Estate of Calvin V. Giusti, Providence, Rhode Island.
Estimate $1,500-2,500

Sheets measure 14 x 11 in. (35.6 x 28.0 cm). The box that houses the prints is discolored and worn. Minor spot toning and handling crimps in Migrant Mother; Dust Bowl has minor handling crimp in image l.l.; Bleached Skull with handling crimp in margin c.l. and subtle vertical bulge running through sheet at center. Migrant Mother, Dust Storm, and Bleached Skull have stamps although Bleached Skull is stamped with information for Sharecropper's Wife and Child.


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