Swann Galleries - The Vernacular Eye - Sale 2345 - April 17, 2014 - page 100

96
(VERNACULAR SPECTACULAR)
A hand-picked group of 136 marvelous snapshots,
including a light display at a carnival, patriotic
pics, small-format movie stills, hunters and
fishermen, a double exposure, anonymous
modernist studies, friends and family smoking
and drinking, cute kids, summer picnics and
yard sales, snowshoe trekkers, motorcar
excursions, light studies, men camping out,
and 4 studies depicting the decimation of a
smokestack. Silver prints, various sizes 3
3
/
4
x5
to 4
1
/
2
x6
3
/
4
inches (9.5x12.7 to 11.4x17.1 cm.),
a few are mounted and with notations on
mount recto or verso. 1900-1930s
[1,000/1,500]
From the Collection of Jim Hanelius.
95
(MILITARY)
Group of 126 photographs relating to the
American and European military during the
early- to mid-20th century, with planes in
formation, men in combat, 3 depicting the
liberation of Paris during World War II, 22
relating to the aftermath in the PacificTheatre,
and 15 prints fromWWI (including a shot of
bombs dropping from a plane, and a few of
women; there are sequences of men in uniform
fooling around,marching,cleaning their barracks,
hanging out in their skivvies, and seeing the
sites); 12 are matted. Silver (124) and cyanotypes
(2), various sizes from 3x2 to 5x7 inches
(7.6x5.1 to 12.7x17.8 cm). 1900-1945
[1,000/1,500]
From the Collection of Jim Hanelius.
95
96
I...,90,91,92,93,94,95,96,97,98,99 101,102,103,104,105,106,107,108,109,110,...250
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