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HAROLD EDGERTON (1903-1990)
Group of 9 photographs.
With 4 large-format and 5 small-format photographs, each an example of
Edgerton’s seminal studies using multi-flash photography to capture and slow time. Silver prints,
the images measuring 6
1
/
8
x9
1
/
2
to 13
5
/
8
x10
7
/
8
inches (15.5x24.1 to 34.6x27.6 cm.), and the reverse,
the sheets 8x10 to 14x11 inches (20.3x25.4 to 35.6x27.9 cm.), 5 with Edgerton’s signature, in pencil
or in ink, some with additional notations, many with his Cambridge, Mass. hand stamp, and all with
his Estate hand stamp, on verso. 1930s-60s
[5,000/7,500]
From Melcher Press, Inc., NewYork, NewYork, in 1989.
Each photograph with a signed letter from the Estate of Harold Edgerton stating that the prints
were deaccessioned from Edgerton’s personal archive, produced under his direct supervision, and
“kept by him as a fine example of an image he considered important.”
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MANUEL ALVAREZ BRAVO
(1902-2002)
Un Pez que Llaman Sierra [A Fish Called Sword].
Silver print, the image measuring 9
1
/
2
x6
7
/
8
inches (24.1x17.5 cm.), the sheet 10x8 inches
(25.4x20.3 cm.), with Bravo’s signature, his
notation México, and the edition notation
86/100, in pencil, on verso. 1944; printed 1980s
[4,000/6,000]
From Hyperion Press Limited, NewYork, New
York, in 1988.
Kismaric,
Manuel Alvarez Bravo
(The Museum
of Modern Art), p. 145.
Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Photopoetry
(Thames &
Hudson), p. 185.
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