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Lot 129: Gilles Peress , b. 1929 'FLASHPOINTS: SELECTED IMAGES OF GILLES PERESS'

Est: $5,000 USD - $7,000 USD
Sotheby'sNew York, NY, USMarch 30, 2009

Item Overview

Description

(New York: Double Elephant Editions, 1997), a portfolio of 12 photographs, each signed on the reverse, 1972-95, printed in 1997. Folio, black leatherette clamshell box with stamped silver lettering

Dimensions

measurements note each approximately 12¾ by 19 in. (32.4 by 48.3 cm.)

Artist or Maker

Notes

PROPERTY OF VARIOUS OWNERS
The plates are as follows: Rwandan Hutu Refugees waiting for medical attention, Benaco, Tanzania, 1994 Sick, abandoned, Rwandan Hutu children in a dispensary, Goma, Zaire, 1994 Massacre site, Nyarubuye, Rwanda, 1994 Bosnian muslim refugees from Banja Luca arriving at a dispatching center, Travnik, Bosnia, 1993 Evacuation of the Jews, Skanderiva, Sarajevo, Bosnia, 1993 The beginning of the Krajina War, a church ransacked by the retreating Serb forces, near Knin, Krajina, Croatia, 1995 Women in the courtyard of the main mosque, Quom, Iran, 1979 A pro-Khomeini demonstration in a stadium, Tabriz, Iran, 1979 Posters in front of the US Embassy, Teheran, Iran, 1979 On the Loyalist Shankill Road, Belfast, Ireland, 1981 First snow in Ardoyne, a Nationalist neighborhood, Belfast, Ireland, 1981 Bottom of William Street one minute before the British First Parachute Regiment opened fire, killing thirteen civilians - an event now known as Bloody Sunday, Derry, Ireland, 1972 The full catalogue information for this lot is as follows: (New York: Double Elephant Editions, 1997), a portfolio of 12 photographs, each signed, titled, and dated by the photographer in pencil on the reverse, matted, 1972-95, printed in 1997; together with the printed title and plate list. Folio, black leatherette clamshell box with stamped silver lettering

Auction Details

Photographs

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Sotheby's
March 30, 2009, 12:00 PM EST

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