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Lot 244: LIBSOHN, SOL

Est: $1,200 USD - $1,800 USDSold:
Swann Auction GalleriesNew York, NY, USApril 15, 2002

Item Overview

Description

Joe's Ice Coal Wood, 2nd Ave & 25 St. * Barber Shop, 41st & Ninth Ave. Together, 2 photographs. Silver prints, each 8x6 1/2 inches with Libsohn's signature and caption, in pencil, on verso. 1950s

Artist or Maker

Notes

Libsohn, an early proponent of documentary photography as a tool for social change, cofounded the Photo League with Sid Grossman. His work appears in the volume this was the photo league (Chicago & Houston, 2001). These prints were formerly in the collection of Romana Javitz.

Auction Details

19TH & 20TH CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHS

by
Swann Auction Galleries
April 15, 2002, 12:00 AM EST

104 East 25th Street, New York, NY, 10010, US