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

379 c   (RETOUCHED—SPORTS) Fun collection of 40 artfully retouched press photographs including graphically accentuated action shots of numerous athletes. With portraits of posing boxers, mid-air equestrians, discus launching athletes, elegant ice skaters, soaring divers, and various others. Silver prints, the images measuring 10x3 to 10x8 inches (25.4x7.6 to 25.4x20.3 cm.), each with editor’s retouching marks on recto, and with various press notations, and hand stamps on verso. 1920s-50s [1,200/1,800] 380 c   (BODYBUILDING) Mini-archive comprising 48 before-and- after photographs of an African American bodybuilder. With a lengthy personalized training schedule, which is fastidiously handwritten on multiple sheets and notes the subject’s opinions about effectiveness of the different regimens. Silver prints, the images measuring 3 3 / 8 x4 3 / 4 inches (8.4x12.1 cm.), the sheets slightly larger, up to three mounted to lined sheets, with handwritten notations, in ink, adjacent to the photographs. 1948-49 AND—Assorted ephemera, including an ALS to a bodybuilder, with a photograph of the Schmidt machine (1948); a typewritten training schedule; the press release for the Mr. America competition (1952); a blank application form for the Metropolitan Association of the Amateur Athletic Union; and one copy each of Muscle Bodybuilder (Aug. 1960) and Amateur Athlete (Feb. 1959) magazines. 1958-60 [1,000/1,500] 379 380