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SUDEK, JOSEF (1896-1976)
A portfolio titled “10 Photographs 1940-1962” with 10 (of 10) photographs, spanning the career of
the great Czech photographer. Silver prints, sizes ranging from approximately 3x4 to 11
1
/
4
x9 inches
(7.6x10.2 to 28.6x22.9 cm.), and the reverse, each with a portfolio hand stamp with the dates, print
number, edition number, and Anna Fárová’s signature, in pencil and in ink, on verso; each individually
matted. Folio, gray-printed folded case; with the colophon with Anna Fárová and Bozena Sudková’s
signatures and the edition notation 10/50; contents loose as issued. 1940-1962; printed 1982
[4,000/6,000]
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MICHALS, DUANE (1932- )
“The Spirit Leaves the Body.” A suite of 7 photographs. Silver prints, each print is 3
1
/
4
x5 inches
(8.3x12.7 cm.), the first print with the title, in ink, in the upper margin, and the last print with
Michals’ signature and edition notation 16/25, in ink, in the lower margin; the remaining prints 2-
6 with their respective number, also in ink, also on recto. 1968
[7,000/10,000]
From the Collection of the Herb Ritts Foundation.
In this rendering of the human spirit, Michals uses double exposure to create the effect of his ghostly
other self. “I believe in the imagination,” he wrote in the introduction to his 1976 title, Real Dreams,
“What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.”
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