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2029

Leonard Freed

1929 – New York – 2006

Beauty contest in Harlem, New York. 1963

Later gelatin silver print. 15,4 x 22,6 cm (20,2 x 25,3 cm) (6 ⅛ x 8 ⅞ in. (8 x 10 in.)).
This picture shows the following artwork: Leonard Freed. Beauty contest in Harlem, New York. 1963.

Estimate:

EUR 1,000

 

- 1,500

USD 1,300

 

- 1,940

Sold for:

976 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions 199-206

Photography, Wednesday, 28.11.2012

Information

Later gelatin silver print. 15,4 x 22,6 cm (20,2 x 25,3 cm) (6 ⅛ x 8 ⅞ in. (8 x 10 in.)). Signed in pencil on the reverse, photographer's- resp. copyright stamp as well as stamp: "VINTAGE PRINT"; thereof "VINTAGE" cancelled in pencil and annotated: "LATER". Inscribed and numbered in pencil by another hand.

Leonard Freed: Worldview, ed. by William A. Ewing, Nathalie Herschdorfer and Wim van Sinderen, Steidl, Göttingen 2007, p. 121
Leonard Freed, Black in White America, Los Angeles 2010, p. 106 (there described: "Doing the cake walk at the beauty contest")

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