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CARL VANVECHTEN (1880-1964)
Male nude with arms raised (Allen Meadows) * Male nude in forest (Hugh Laing).
Together, 2 oversized
silver prints, the images measuring 13
7
/
8
x10
7
/
8
inches (35.3x27.7 cm.), each with a caption, in pencil,
on verso. Circa 1936
[2,500/3,500]
Laing and Meadows were both prominent dancers and performers in NewYork City.
Hugh Laing appears as
Untitled Fig. 36,
and several variant images of Allen Meadows (such as
Figs.
23
and
24
) appear in James Smalls’
The Homoerotic Photography of Carl VanVechten: Public Face, Private
Thoughts
(Temple University Press, 2006).
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EDWARD WESTON (1886-1958)/COLE WESTON (1919-2003)
Nude (breast and window).
Platinum print, the image measuring 7
1
/
4
x9
3
/
8
inches (18.4x23.8 cm.), the
mount 17x14 inches (43.2x35.6 cm.), with the Negative by Edward Weston hand stamp and Cole
Weston’s signature, title, date, and negative number 6N, in pencil, on mount verso. 1920; printed 1980s
[2,500/3,500]
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