Paul Strand
'Mr. Bennett, Vermont'
Auction Closed
May 2, 05:08 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Paul Strand
1890 - 1976
'Mr. Bennett, Vermont'
gelatin silver print, flush-mounted, signed, titled, and dated in green ink on the reverse, framed, a Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, label on the reverse, 1944
image: 4⅝ by 5⅞ in. (11.7 by 14.9 cm.)
frame: 17 by 15½ in. (43.2 by 39.4 cm.)
Private collection
Sotheby's New York, 22 April 2006, Sale 8189, Lot 166, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, as agent
Calvin Tomkins, Paul Strand: Sixty Years of Photographs (Aperture, 1976), p. 88
Nancy Newhall, ed., Time in New England (Aperture, 1980), p. 164
Paul Strand, Aperture Masters of Photography (Aperture, 1987), p. 23
Maren Strange, ed., Paul Strand: Essays on His Life and Work (New York, 1990), pl. 32
Sarah Greenough, Paul Strand: An American Vision (Washington, D. C.: The National Gallery of Art, 1990), p. 105
Robert Adams, Why People Photograph (New York, 1994), p. 74
Peter Galassi, Walker Evans & Company (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2000), pl. 48
David Travis, At the Edge of the Light: Thoughts on Photography & Photographers, Talent & Genius (Jaffrey, 2003), p. 152
'Who can say what amalgam of memory, dreams, study, pain, and discipline brought Paul Strand to photograph Mr. Bennett and to record him so perfectly? The picture is almost as unaccountable as the fact of Mr. Bennett; we are left with our little cosmologies and the certainty that we will never fully know.'
Robert Adams, Why People Photograph (Aperture, 1994), p. 75
It is believed that the photograph offered here is one of only three early contact prints of this image. The other prints are located at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., and in the collection of Middlebury College Museum of Art.
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