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

366 366 c   (CHINA) Chairman Mao Zedong. Ferrotyped silver print, the image measuring 10 7 / 8 x8 3 / 8 inches (27.6x21.3 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with a Xinuan Press Agency hand stamp in Chinese characters, on verso. Circa 1950 [900/1,200] This image was used by AndyWarhol in his popular paintings and prints of Chairman Mao. 367 367 c   YASUSHI NAGAO (1930-2009) Otoya Yamaguchi assassinating Japanese Socialist Party politician Inejiro Asanuma. Ferrotyped silver print, the image measuring 7 1 / 2 x9 1 / 2 inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with a mimeographed caption label and a hand stamp, on verso. 1960 [600/900] Nagao won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and the 1960 World Press Photo of the Year awards for this photograph.