Views of Mexico. Early 1930s. 10 vintage toned gelatin silver prints. Each circa 25 x 20 cm and larger. Most with photographer's name and title in the negative, 3 with photographer's stamp on the verso.
Hugo Brehme is considered one of the outstanding photographers of Mexico and mostly known for his high-quality photo postcards depicting the landscapes and people of the country. Born in Germany, he spent most of his life in Mexico and had a large influence on the work of Manuel Alvarez Bravo who studied under him. – Three prints with some discoloration, otherwise most in very good condition. With: A copy of Hugo Brehme (ed.). Das malerische Mexiko. Mexiko 1927. - Edges slighty rubbed, otherwise good, clean copy.
Lit.: Hugo Brehme (ed.). Das malerische Mexiko. Mexiko 1927, ill. p. 37.
Brüchmann, Peter
The Beatles performing at the Top-Ten Club, Hamburg
Los 4102
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The Beatles performing at the Top Ten Club, Hamburg. 1961/printed 1980s. 4 ferrotyped gelatin silver prints. Each circa 24 x 18 cm. Each with photographer's blindstamp in lower right in the margin; each with agency label on the verso.
Born in Berlin, Peter Brüchmann trained to be a photographer with the fashion and portrait photographer Lotte Söhring and subsequently completed training at the German press agency dpa. In the 1950s and 1960s he worked for well-known magazines, such as Schöner Wohnen, Stern and Bild am Sonntag. Brüchmann is primarily known for his portraits of celebrities of the movie and music industry. These photos were made during the Beatles' performance at the Top Ten Club in Hamburg in 1961. – A few light handling marks, otherwise in very good condition.
Lit.: Rock Gallery. The Beatles at the Top Ten Hamburg 1961. 10 Historic Photos by Peter Brüchmann (no date), all illustrated.
Brüchmann, Peter
Wolfgang Neuss above Breitscheidplatz, Berlin
Los 4103
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Wolfgang Neuss above Breitscheidplatz, Berlin. 1963. Vintage gelatin silver print. 30 x 39,5 cm. Photographer's/copyright stamp on the verso.
Minimal edge wear, two small tears in lower edge, some retouched spots in sky area, a few light handling marks, otherwise in very good condition.
Budnik, Dan
Roy Lichtenstein with his sons David and Mitchell, West 26th Street Studio, New York, with "We Rose Up Slowly"
Los 4106
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Roy Lichtenstein with his sons David and Mitchell, West 26th Street Studio, New York, with "We Rose Up Slowly". 1964/printed 2006-08. Dye transfer print. 56 x 37 cm (60 x 50 cm). Unsigned, with printer's stamp on the verso.
In excellent condition.
"Bulgari". 1996. Chromogenic digital print on Kodak Professional Digital paper. 36,5 x 25,5 cm (40,5 x 31,4 cm). Signed, titled and editioned 7/15 by the photographer in ink on the verso. From a limited edition by Artinvestor, Munich.
What appears to be a disturbing scar on the face of the model Christy Turlington is actually created by the artist. Buetti writes on the back of the photo with a ball-point pen, then re-photographs the image so it appears as scarification. From Buetti's series "Looking for Love". – A few minimal handling marks, otherwise in very good condition.
Lit.: Ute Grosenick. Art Now. 137 Artists at the Rise of the New Millennium. Cologne 2002, ill. p. 73.
Burgdorf, Will
Portrait of a woman; Portrait of a man
Los 4108
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Portrait of a woman; Portrait of a man. Early 1930s. 2 vintage warm-toned gelatin silver prints. Each circa 21 x 16 cm. 1 with photographer's stamp on verso, each mounted to card, signed by the photographer in pencil below the image on mount.
Will Burgdorf started his career as a photographer in 1930 and as of 1931 had a studio at Lister Platz in Hanover. He specialized in portraits and expressively posed nudes. He often photographed people with their eyes closed, giving the portraits a sense of inner contemplation. As of WWII Burgdorf's career ended and in 1945 he went missing. – Rich tonal prints in excellent condition.
Providence. 1961/printed 1980s. Dye transfer print. 24 x 36,5 cm (44,8 x 57 cm).
A few light handling marks in margins, otherwise in excellent condition with strong colors.
Cartier-Bresson, Henri
Henri Cartier-Bresson photographing at the open pit mining (Inden), Germany
Los 4112
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Photographer: Gunter G. Haugwitz (1930-2013). Henri Cartier-Bresson photographing at the open pit mine (Inden), Germany. 1967/printed later. Gelatin silver print. 37,5 x 25,4 cm (40 x 30 cm).
In 1967 Henri Cartier Bresson photographed at the German open pit mine near Inden for the book Mensch und Maschine, a project initiated by IBM World Trade Corporation (published 1969). At the time the IBM public relations employee, Gunter G. Haugwitz, was assigned to accompany Cartier-Bresson on his trips around the Rhine area. He managed to capture the otherwise camera-shy Cartier-Bresson while working, taking a picture of an individual worker in front of a massive crane and giant soil heap. – In excellent condition.
Lit.: IBM (ed.). Mensch und Maschine. Photographien von Henri Cartier-Bresson. New York 1969, see pp. 46-47.
China/Ernst Boerschmann
Architectural photgraphic views and drawings/studies of China
Los 4115
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Photographer: Ernst Boerschmann (1873-1949), E. Herold and unknown. Architectural photographic views and drawings/studies of China. 1910-1940. Circa 330 gelatin silver, collodion paper prints and halftone prints as well as various drawings, sketches and postcards. Various sizes between circa 5,5 x 9 cm, 17 x 13 cm (most) and 32 x 24 cm. Most annotated by Boerschmann in pencil/ ink on the verso.
German architect, photographer and sinologist Ernst Boerschmann was known for his research and photographs of historical Chinese architecture. He was the first foreigner to systematically document China's ancient cultural buildings, making thousands of photographs, sketches, and architectural surveys during several trips to China in the first half of the twentieth century.
In 1906, Boerschmann launched his first expedition with financial support from the German Empire. He traveled to China as a scientific advisor to the German Foreign Office, which supported his studies until the outbreak of World War I in 1914. On this trip, he documented many pagodas and temples with cameras and drawings that formed the material for his later publications. In June 1912, the first major exhibition of Boerschmann's photographic work was held at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Berlin. After World War I, he lectured on Chinese architecture in Königsberg and other German cities. From 1921 he worked in Berlin as a lecturer at the Technical University of Berlin, where he was appointed professor in 1927. The publication of three books in the 1920s, Baukunst und Landschaft, Picturesque China, and Chinesische Architektur, promoted Boerschmann's China photography, and he became known internationally as a photographer rather than a researcher. Picturesque China (1923), published in English, was to become his most successful book. In 1931, Chinese architectural expert Zhu Qiqian invited Boerschmann to join his newly formed Society for the Study of Chinese Architecture in Beijing as a corresponding member. In 1943, during World War II, his apartment was bombed and destroyed. In 1945, Boerschmann was appointed professor of sinology at Humboldt University in Berlin and later held the same position at the University of Hamburg. He died on April 30, 1949, in Bad Pyrmont, Lower Saxony.
This diverse collection includes photographs, most by Boerschmann, his sketches and notes on Chinese architecture, and some personal documents, including his 1948 day calendar and a studio portrait of Boerschmann by Bann's Studio, Shanghai from 1934. The collection comes directly from the estate of Ernst Boerschmann. The only other known major group of Boerschmann's work is in the Stephan Loewentheil Collection. – Some with traces of use, most with curled edges, otherwise many in good to very good condition.
Provenance: Ernst Boerschmann estate
Photographer unknown. Staged Chinese propaganda photographs with a double of Mao Zedong. 1950s. 4 vintage ferrotyped gelatin prints. Each circa 30 x 24 cm.
These photographs do not show Mao Zedong himself, but an unknown double posing on them, making the leader of the Chinese state appear in a prestigious light. – Some light traces of use, two with pinholes in corners, otherwise in good condition.
Photographer: Wolfgang Volz (b. 1948). "Wrapped Reichstag". 1995. Offset print. 60 x 80 cm. With printed editon/copyright text in lower edge, signed by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in blue crayon in upper left corner.
An attractive documentation of one of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's most ambitious projects showing he Platz der Republik from the air, during sundown. – Upper corners bumped, otherwise in good condition.
Carla Bruni. 1993/printed 2007. Lambda print. 60 x 60 cm. In floating frame without glass. One of 150. With Lumas edition label sticker (unmounted).
In excellent condition.
The Dolly Sisters. Circa 1928. Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print. 18 x 21,1 cm. Photographer's signature logo in the negative in lower right; annotated in pencil/crayon on the verso.
In the 1920s, the image of women changed rapidly, and actresses such as the Dolly Sisters stood for the image of the "new" woman, which was widely circulated in the magazines of the Weimar Republic. A print of this image is in the collection of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg. – Some handling marks and some stronger creases in upper right area and lower left, otherwise in good condition.
Woman in hat. 1914. Vintage gelatin silver print. 20 x 15,5 cm. Mounted to card and board, signed and dated by the photographer in pencil below image on mount.
Some mirroirng in dark areas in right side, otherwise in very good condition.
Eggleston, William
Memphis, Tennessee (Red Cart)
Los 4123
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Memphis, Tennessee (red cart). 1996/printed late 1990s. Dye transfer print. 35 x 55 cm (46,4 x 57,5 cm). Unsigned, with printer's stamp on the verso.
In excellent condition with rich, bright colors.
The dancer and choreographer Gertud Leistikow (1885-1948). Circa 1914. Vintage sepia-toned matte gelatin silver print. 16 x 19 cm. Photographer's blindstamp in lower right corner, mounted to light grey paper.
The German dancer and choreographer Gertrud Leistikow was primarily associated with nude and grotesque dances. In 1914 Leistikow's solo performances drew considerable crowds in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Lausanne, Utrecht and Sarajevo. In the summer of 1914 she joined Rudolf von Laban's troupe in Ascona, where in addition to Mary Wigman she had a major role in Laban's dance drama "Triumph of the Victim" by Hans Brandenburg. – A few light spots in upper left, otherwise in very good condition.
Lit.: Bodo von Dewitz/Karin Schuller-Procopovici (eds.). Hugo Erfurth 1874 - 1948. Photograph zwischen Tradition und Moderne. Cologne 1992, compare ill. p. 439 (image from the same sitting).
Photographer unknown. Album with large collection of sample fashion photos of various designers. 1952-1955. 77 vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver prints. Various sizes, most photos circa 25 x 21 cm. Each mounted to board with typed label with fashion details and dated, bound in artificial leather album (edges/corners rubbed) with screw binding.
A comprehensive compilation of photos of various fashion designs for women in the first half of the 1950s. Includes models by the designers Maggy Rouff, Paris; Jeanne Paquin, Paris; Pierre Balmain, Paris; Fira Benenson, New York; Matthes & Co., Hamburg; Kiviette, New York; Monika Gottlieb, New York; Nina Ricci, Paris; Bessie Becker, Munich; Patricia Barry, Dublin; Dorothy Dickerson Inc., New York; Sally Victor, New York; Margeaux, Melbourne; Carven, Paris; Dior, Paris; Sutton Creative Arts, Montreal; Frank Usher, London and Willy Horze, Berlin. – Some photos with retouching, some creases/buckling, otherwise in good to very good condition.
Faurer, Louis
Union Square from Ohrbach's Window, New York, N.Y.
Los 4129
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"Union Square from Ohrbach's Window, New York, N.Y.". 1948-50/printed later. Gelatin silver print on Agfa paper. 20,5 x 13,3 cm (35,5 x 27,6 cm). Signed by the photographer in pencil on the verso. Matted.
A few handling and light finger marks in margins, small emulsion loss in lower edge, otherwise a fine tonal print in very good condition.
Lit.: Anne Wilkes Tucker. Louis Faurer. Houston 2002, ill. p. 119.
"Empire State Building, New York". 1940/printed later. Gelatin silver print. 35 x 27,5 cm. Signed by the photographer in ink lower right in the margin.
In excellent condition.
Lit.: Andreas Feininger. New York in the Forties. New York 1978.
Film Photography
Charlie Chaplin in "The Gold Rush" and "The Adventurer"
Los 4132
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Photographer unknown. Charlie Chaplin in "The Gold Rush" and "The Adventurer" 1925/1917. 2 vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver prints. Each circa 26 x 20 cm. 1 with collection stamp and 1 with typed text and annotated in pencil on the verso.
Some handling marks/creases, one with pinholes in corners, a few tears in edges, some light soiling, otherwise in good condition.
Film Photography
Film stills from "Der Letzte Mann"
Los 4133
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Photographer unknown. Film stills from the UFA film "Der letze Mann" (The Last Laugh) with Emil Jannings, directed by Friedrich W. Murnau. 1924. 7 vintage gelatin silver prints on doubleweight paper (2 ferrotyped). Each circa 29 x 23 cm. 2 with UFA logo in the negative in lower left corner.
One photo with small tears in upper edge, some with light mirroring in edges, otherwise in good condition.
Film Photography
Film still of "S.O.S Eisberg"
Los 4135
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Film still of "S.O.S. Eisberg", directed by Arnold Fanck. 1932-33. Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on doubleweight paper. 20,5 x 27 cm. Number 39 in lower left in the negative.
Some light discoloration in sky area, otherwise in very good condition.
Film Photography
Portrait of Marlene Dietrich for the film "Martin Roumagnac"
Los 4139
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Portrait of Marlene Dietrich for the film "Martin Roumagnac" (1946). Vintage gelatin silver print. 28 x 23,5 cm. IFA archive stamp, annotated and layout notes in pencil on the verso.
This image was published on the cover of the German magazine Illustrierte Filmbühne Nr. 263 on the occasion of the German premiere of the film Martin Roumagnac in 1948. – Stronger creases especially in corners and edges with some loss in emulsion layer.
"West-Berlin". 1956/printed later. Gelatin silver print. 14 x 21,8 cm (18 x 24 cm). Signed by the photographer in pencil on the verso.
Corners minimally bumped, a few small retouched spots, otherwise in very good condition.
Fischer, Arno
East Berlin, Prenzlauer Berg
Los 4143
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East Berlin, Prenzlauer Berg. 1957. Vintage gelatin silver print. 21,8 x 30 cm. Photographer's stamp, annotated and signed by the photographer in pencil on the verso.
A few light handling marks, otherwise in very good condition.
Lit.: Elke aus dem Moore/Matthias Flügge (eds.). Arno Fischer. Fotografie (exhibition catalogue). Ostfildern 2009, ill. p. 47.
Fashion photos, Moscow. 1967. 3 vintage gelatin silver prints. Each circa 30 x 20 cm. Each with Sibylle paper label and protective cover sheet attached to the verso.
In 1962 Arno Fischer became part of the editorial team of Sibylle which was the most popular and almost only lifestyle magazine in the GDR, primarily dedicated to fashion. The magazine was unique in the GDR because its photographers were able to freely develop their artistic activities despite the authoritarian regime. – Corners slightly bumped, edges curled, a few light handling creases, otherwise in good condition.
Lit.: Published in: Sibylle issue 5, 1967.
Untitled. 1970s. Vintage gelatin silver print. 13 x 19 cm (20 x 30 cm). Signed by the photographer in pencil on the verso.
Lower edge unevenly torn, crease lower right, a few small retouched spots, otherwise in very good condition.
New York. 1984. Vintage gelatin silver print. 34,5 x 23,3 cm (36,7 x 25,5 cm). Signed and annotated by the photographer in pencil on the verso.
A few retouched spots in lower area, backed tear in left edge, otherwise in very good condition.
Lit.: Elke aus dem Moore/Matthias Flügge (eds.). Arno Fischer. Fotografie (exhibition catalogue). Ostfildern 2009, ill. p. 149.
Fleischmann, Trude
Portrait of the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler
Los 4147
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Portrait of the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler (1886-1954). Circa 1925. Vintage warm-toned gelatin silver print. 23,7 x 17,8 cm. Photographer's name in the negative in lower left corner.
Silver mirroring and a few small nicks in edges, otherwise in very good condition.
"München 1860, Torwart". 1958. Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on Agfa-Brovira paper. 29,7 x 40,2 cm. Signed and annotated by the photographer in pencil on the verso.
Edges curled, some edge wear, corners bumped, some handling creases, otherwise in good condition.
"Kneipe am Abend" (Pub at Night). 1930s. Vintage gelatin silver print on strong ivory paper. 22,5 x 15,5 cm. Photographer's stamp, Dr. Adolf Behne stamp and annotated in ink/pencil on the verso.
A few retouched spots, light crease mark in lower left, otherwise in very good condition.
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