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

383 c   (CIRCUS) A vast typological archive with over 1000 photographs documenting the transport trains and vehicle convoys of various circus companies. Featuring images from the Ringling Bros., Barnum and Bailey, Cole, Beaty, and Hunt’s Three Ring Circuses. With a number of scenes showing performing animals exiting their temporary housing; images of the nomadic carnies; typological studies of the graphic signage on the train cars; and one albumdevoted entirely to an exhibit of model railroads and miniatures. Chromogenic (935) and silver (95) prints, the images mostly measuring 3½ inches (8.9 cm.) square, some slightly larger, inserted recto/verso into plastic album sleeves. 4to, plastic 3-ring binders (3) and one oblong 4to with twin-bolt binding. 1950s-70s WITH—A binder containing 47 photographs and various ephemera relating to the circus. Silver (25) and chromogenic (22) prints, the images measuring approximately 3x5 inches (7.6x12.7 cm.). 1920s-70s   [1,000/1,500] 384 c   (CINEMA) Group of 10 publicity stills from the movie Freaks, the classic horror tale directed by Tod Browning and reissued by Dwain Esper. Silver prints, the images measuring 7x9 1 / 4 inches (17.8x23.5 cm.), the sheets slightly larger, each with an inventory number in the negative and a printed caption in the margin. 1932; printed circa 1962 [1,000/1,500] Browning’s horror film about sideshow performers exacting revenge was a box office bomb and banned in the UK for thirty years. In 1961 a print of the film was rediscovered and subsequently screened at the Venice Film Festival. The edited version was released by Esper, an American director whose low-budget features, “Sex Maniac,” “Marihuana,” and “How to Undress in Front of Your Husband” emerged as B-movie cult classics of the counterculture. 384 383