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Auction: 314 - Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1117

Photography: Carl Van Vechten - William Faulkner American photographer; critic; author; crime reporter; one of New York´s foremost music critics; retired from the news business and began writing to avoid the pitfalls of sedentary sameness; quit writing to become a successful portrait photographer, capturing the noted celebrities of the day in a journalistic, uncompromising, dramatic fashion. His Photograph of "William Faulkner." Image ca. 9-6/8" x 7-11/16" silver print format with blindstamp on lower right, titled on verso by the photographer with reproduction stamp, negative number and date of sitting: "December 11, 1954." Essentially as made with trivial corner contact, extremely fine.

Estimate
$1,000 to $1,500