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

372 c   (RETOUCHED PRESS PRINTS) A group of approximately 50 press photographs of various subjects, all with extensive hand retouching and overpainting. Comprised of photographs depicting various animals, including 5 of chimpanzees, 6 of big cats, and 9 of dogs; 5 depicting mannequins; others showing artists at work, little people, and “giants;” and many human-interest or humorous subjects. Silver prints, most ferrotyped, the images measuring 3 1 / 8 x5 1 / 4 to 10 1 / 2 x8 1 / 2 inches (7.9x13.3 to 26.7x21.6 cm.), the 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-50s WITH— A group of approximately 60 photographs, including portraits of Andy Warhol, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Marilyn Monroe, George Gershwin, Amelia Earhart, and others. Silver and ferrotyped silver prints, the images measuring 7x4 to 13x10 1 / 4 inches (18.4x10.2 to 33x26 cm.), and the reverse, with hand stamps and notations on verso and several with mimeographed caption sheets. 1890s-1970s. [1,500/2,500]