original salt print by Roger Fenton, “Valley of the Shadow of Death”
Toronto. Okay all you photo print collectors! Here is your chance to add some authentically historic prints to your collection.
Under the auspices of sister organization, The Daguerreian Society, Swann Auction Galleries in NYC are auctioning 100 works from the Stephen White Collection in today’s (Thursday the 27th) auction.
The gallery says in part, “Photography’s immediate importance in documenting and sharing information serves as an early theme, including Roger Fenton’s pioneering image from the Crimean War Valley of the Shadow of Death, and an exceptionally rare view that documents the vicinity of the execution of Emperor Maximilian in Mexico.
“The idea that photography possesses a dual or hybrid identity as both an art form and documentarian tool is ever-present, and continues throughout, including an astonishing large-format example of Tom Howard’s surreptitious and immediately iconic image made at the execution of Ruth Snyder, an early print showing the Wright Brothers’ first flight in the Kitty Hawk in 1903, and Garry Winogrand’s noir portrait of Victor Riesel, a syndicated journalist blinded after an acid attack.”
Visit the gallery link above and swap some $$$ for a piece of history.
