97
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(CURATED SNAPSHOTS)
A select group of 15 charming, abstracted,
strange, and beautiful snapshots, including 3
double exposures (including a man in a boat
and a young woman standing alone); a small
dancer; three boys on a tractor (one wearing an
eye patch); a man sitting on a car with his feet
extended towards the camera; two women
back-to-back with binoculars; four women
wearing bloomers, patterned socks and what
appear to be a kind of corset with their backs
to the camera; a young woman with curly hair
posed on the beach; another young woman on
her stomach, feet up, and in a swim cap also on
the beach; young men playing leap frog on a
street; a man poking his head out a missing
pane of glass in a door; a woman walking away
from the camera swinging something in her
hand (another camera?); a man on a roof; and a
women wearing cat-eye glasses buried up to
her neck in sand. Silver prints, sizes ranging
from 3x2 to 2
1
/
2
4 inches (7.6x5.1 to 5.7x10.2
cm.), and the reverse; each framed. 1920s-1950s
[3,500/4,500]
From the Collection of Peter J. Cohen.
