Sale 2489 - Artists & Amateurs: Photographs & Photobooks, October 18, 2018

173 c W. EUGENE SMITH (1918-1978) Women approaching car, from the Nurse Midwife photo essay in LIFE magazine. Silver print, the image measuring 13 1 / 4 x8 3 / 4 inches (33.7x22.2 cm.), with Smith’s West Street, NYC hand stamp, a LIFE Photo hand stamp, and a numeric hand stamp, and notations, in pencil, in an unknown hand, on verso. 1951 [2,500/3,500] Smith, W. Eugene Smith, Master of the Photographic Essay (Aperture), cat. no. 16:087, p. 101 (variant). “Nurse Midwife (variant),” LIFE magazine December 3, 1951. 174 c W. EUGENE SMITH (1918-1978) The mother’s aunt, Catherine Prileau, trying to soothe her niece, from the Nurse Midwife photo essay in LIFE magazine * Maude Callen’s incubator and medical supplies. Together, 2 photographs. Silver prints, the images measuring 12 1 / 8 x8 3 / 4 inches (31x22.2 cm.), and the reverse, both with Smith’s West Street hand stamp, and the first with cropping notations, in pencil, in an unknown hand, on verso. 1951 [3,000/4,500] Smith, W. Eugene Smith, Master of the Photographic Essay (Aperture), p. 103, cat. no. 16:112. “Nurse Midwife,” LIFE magazine, December 3, 1951. 173 174