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

276 c   (AFRICA—OIL) Album entitled Africa, 1953 with 50 photographs documenting an apparent 12,000- mile reconnaissance trip around the continent, in which numerous gas stations and oil companies were documented. With cross-continental views of both well equipped and shack-like service stations from Texaco, A.P.T., and Caltex, among others; busy marketplaces and accomplished street portraits of local citizens; oil storage terminals and company headquarters; and dramatic wildlife scenes from the Nairobi Game Reserve. Also included are photographs of a map with the traveled route, and a day-by-day summary of the month-long excursion. Silver prints, the images measuring approximately 8x10 inches (20.3x25.4 cm.), and the reverse, mounted recto only to heavy pages, each with a typed caption. Large 4to, ornate blue boards with a mounted silver print, handwritten title, and the credit “T.L. Lenzen;” twin-bolt binding. 1953 [1,400/1,800] 277 c   (TAJIK SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC) A small suite of modernist photomontages promoting the new forward-thinking culture and society of the “Sovereign Socialist Republic.” Each focusing on a different part of the civilization such as heavy industry, agriculture, schooling, scientific advances, theatre, and cinema. Silver prints, the images measuring 15x10 1 / 2 inches (38x26.7 cm.), and the reverse, each with printed or stamped block- letter captions and descriptions, in ink, on recto. 1960s [1,000/1,500] 277