Lot 179
(JOEL STERNFELD; HENRY WESSEL JR.; NATHAN LYONS, et alia)
A portfolio entitled American Roads. With 20 (of 20) photographs depicting scenes of the all-American open road and the attractions at its wayside. Including photographs by Joel Sternfeld, Henry Wessel Jr., Tod Papageorge, Frank Gohlke, Roger Minick, Nathan Lyons, and more. Silver (14), Ektacolor (5), and cibachrome (one) prints, the images measuring 4 1/2x6 3/4 to 19 1/2x15 3/4 inches (11.4x17.1 to 49.5x40 cm.), each with the photographer's signature, in ink or in pencil, on recto or on verso, and some also with the title and date; each enclosed in a paper folder, and some are also matted. Folio-sized gray cloth box with an inlaid silver print of Dorothea Lange's U.S. 54, North of El Paso, Texas, 1938; the colophon booklet with a letterpress title, and a mounted silver print of Walker Evans' Hitchhikers, Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1936; contents loose as issued. ONE OF AN EDITION OF 100 COPIES. Landweber/Artists, 1968-81; printed 1979
Estimate $5,000 - 7,500
Jim Alinder, A Joy Forever, Roadside Florida, 1974 * Michael Becotte, (untitled), 1974 * Michael Bishop, (untitled), no. 74-1107, 1974 * Ken Brown, Pink Trailer Tilt, 1974 * Barbara Crane, Bus People, 1975 * Robert W. Fichter, Air Power, 1979 * Steve Fitch, Dinosaur, Highway 40, Vernal, Utah, 1974 * Robert Flick, East of Lancaster, along Highway 14, California, SV 044/81, 1981 * Frank Gohlke, Aerial View, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1981 * Harold Jones, Baptism Sabino Canyon, 1976 * Mark Klett, Storm Clouds over Eastern Idaho, near Craters of the Moon, 1980 * Victor Landweber, S.N. Ward and Son Mobil Service, Pasadena, CA, 1978 * Nathan Lyons, (untitled), 1968, 1969 * Elaine Mayes, Pegasus, 1972 * Roger Minick, Airstream at Monument Valley, Arizona, 1979 * Tod Papageorge, Burbank, California, 1973 * Barbara Jo Revelle, (untitled), 1981 * Joel Sternfeld, Exhausted Renegade Elephant, Woodland, Washington, 1979 * Henry Wessel Jr., Tucson, Arizona, 1974 * Robert A. Widdicombe, Cadillac Ranch, Amarillo, Texas, 1979.
