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(EROTICA—FETISH
PHOTOGRAPHS)
CHARLES GUTETTE
A rare group of 19 “girl fight” and fetish
photographs, including women dressed in
lingerie and shiny high heeled shoes as well as
tall lace-up boots and tight corsets, and pairs of
women clad in brassieres and shorts fighting and
boxing in provocative poses; includes two small
diptychs. Silver prints, measuring 5
1
/
2
x3
1
/
4
inches (14x8.3 cm.), and slightly smaller, and the
reverse. 1930s
[1,800/2,200]
Guyette’s original business, a store front in the theater
district in NewYork City, specialized in costumes for
the burlesque. He also created and sold “girl fight” and
fetish photographs of women in various dress via
classified ads in the backs of American and English
magazines in the 1930s. Guyette’s photographs were
influenced by the Parisian photo studioYva Richard,
and the illustrator for French flagellation novels, Carlo.
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(SNAPSHOTS)
Group of 20 vernacular snapshots featuring
double exposures, including a woman posing
with a boat with a second exposure of a couple
sitting together, an abstracted image of a house in
the snow, a woman preparing for a dive, a couple
juxtaposed with their car, a woman in uniform in
a doorway, couples goofing around in bathing
suits, a woman posing sweetly with the NBC
Studios marquee, and a person posing with a large
pile of snow in the cold. Silver prints, sizes
ranging from 3x2 to 5
1
/
2
x3
1
/
8
inches (7.6x5.1 to
14x7.9 cm.), and the reverse, one with a date
stamp (partially illegible), one with a notation
“Two Guns,Two of Me,” in ink, and another with
a date, in pencil, in an unknown hand, all on
verso. 1940s-60s
[2,000/3,000]
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