Sale 2458 - Art & Storytelling: Photographs & Photobooks, October 19, 2017

318 318 c   (U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRI­ CULTURE—SOIL CONSERVATION) Album with approximately 112 photo­ graphs documenting the various species of “range plants,” from Agave to Yucca, present on the Texas plains. Containing images of shrubs, cacti, vines, and trees. Each page of the album is dedicated to a different species, and many pages show an example of a “typical plant” and close-ups of the “fruiting branch.” Silver prints, the images measuring approximately 3x4 1 / 4 inches (7.6x10.8 cm.), and the reverse, mounted recto only to pages with typed titles, exten­ sive descriptions of the plants, and their dis­ tribution within Texas. 4to, brown boards; prong binding. 1938 [700/1,000] 319 c   GEO-BLANC (active 1920s-40s) Laboratory scene with glass beakers. Silver print, the image measuring 8 7 / 8 x6 1 / 2 inches (22.7x16.5 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Blanc’s hand stamp on verso. Circa 1940 WITH—Pair of “noirish” photographs entitled Sinner Takes All of a man adding poison to an alcoholic drink. Ferrotyped silver prints, the images measuring 9 1 / 4 x7 1 / 4 inches (23.5x18.4 cm.), the sheets slightly larger, with a hand stamp on verso. 1930s. [500/750] Georges Blanc was a French cinematographer of the 1920s, as well as a photographer- illustrator whose images were reproduced in magazines and advertisements. His Parisian agency was known as “Geo-Blanc.” 319