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

361 c   (PRESS PRINTS—UNITED STATES POLITICS) Group of 20 retouched press photographs, each with extensive and precise alterations. Including images of Dwight D. Eisenhower and his family; a young Caroline Kennedy inspecting her infant brother’s feet; Senator Joseph McCarthy and his wife; Harry S.Truman and Richard Nixon; and the Republican National Convention in the year 1923. Ferrotyped silver prints, the images measuring 10 1 / 2 x8 1 / 2 inches (26.7x21.6 cm.), and smaller, and the reverse, most sheets slightly larger, all with period retouching and hand painting, on recto, and most with typed press captions, handwritten notations, and various press agency hand stamps, on verso. 1920s-60s WITH— Group of 10 dynamic photographs relating to Communist rallies and protests in United States throughout the 1930s. Silver prints, the images ranging from 6 1 / 4 x8 to 9x11 inches (16.5x20.3 to 22.9x27.9 cm.), with clippings, captions, or hand stamps on verso. 1930s. [800/1,200]