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

392 c   MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE. A pair of portfolios, each entitled Twelve Soviet Photo-Prints. Photogravures (24 total), the images measuring 13x9 1 / 4 inches (33x23.5 cm.), and the reverse, the sheets 19 3 / 4 x14 1 / 4 inches (40.2x36.2 cm.), each with a printed title on recto. Folios, black- stamped red and green folding jackets with the captions on the back inside flap; contents loose as issued. New York: The Argus Press, 1930-32; printed 1934 [4,000/6,000] The portfolio in the red wrappers includes: Semionova: Premiere Ballerina, Great Theatre: Moscow * Village School: Kolomna: Volga Region * At the Lathe: “Hammer & Sickle” Factory: Moscow * At the Circus * The Steppe: Ukraine * Steel Worker: Magnitogorsk * For the Iron Mine Foundations: Magnet Mountain * Borscht * Ekaterina Dzhugashvili: Mother of Joseph Stalin * Soviet Serenade * A Priest * Stalin’s Great Aunt. The portfolio in the green wrappers includes: Machine Dance * Soviet Babies * Stalin’s Great Aunt * Shock Brigadier * Medical Students * Blast Furnace: Magnitogorsk * Mtskhet: Caucasus * Village in the Urals * Col. Cooper at Dnieper Dam * Soviet Bricklayer * Children’s Clinic: Moscow * Street Car Conductor.