Sale 2466 - Icons & Images: Photographs & Photobooks, February 15, 2018

185 c GARRY WINOGRAND (1928-1984) Victor Riesel—journalist and foe of labor racketeering. Silver print, the image measuring 13 7 / 8 x11 inches (35.2x27.9 cm.), with a LOOK magazine label with the typed credit, title, and issue date, on verso. 1957 [14,000/18,000] Victor Riesel (1913-1995) was a legendary American syndicated columnist passionate about labor unions and politics. In 1956, in retaliation for Riesel’s hard-hitting journalism, a gangster threw sulfuric acid in his face, permanently blinding him. (Subsequently he wore dark glasses in public.) The attack continued to make national news for over a year. Despite this, according to his New York Times obituary, “Mr. Riesel never stopped inveighing against gangster infiltration and other corruption in labor unions.”