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DANE, BILL (1938- )
Group of 31 photographic postcards, each with
Dane’s notations. Silver (28) and chromogenic
(3) prints in postcard-size format, nearly all
measure 5x7 inches (12.7x17.8 cm.), or the
reverse,each with Dane’s handwritten salutation,
name and/or message on verso, and a postal
cancellation mark. 1980-84
[3,000/4,500]
WITH
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Bill Dane.“Salt Lake City.” Silver print,
9x13
1
/
2
inches (22.9x34.3 cm.), with Dane’s
signature, title, date, and inscription to Thomas
Garver, in pencil, on verso. 1974.
From the Collection of Thomas Garver.
According to Patricia Bosworth, who penned a
biography about Diane Arbus, “In class [Arbus]
kept stressing the factual, the literal, the specificity
inherent in photography. She loved Bill Dane’s
postcard photographs of American landscapes.”
