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Picture This: Fine, Vintage & Vernacular Photography

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We will be offering a range of fine and vintage photography in this auction, curated by Eric Robbins. Highlights include archives of space photography, Lewis Hine photographs, iconic pop culture imagery, studio and vernacular photographs of the 19th and 20th century in a range of subjects, panoramas, a comprehensive collection of "headless" trick photography, and photo albums.
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Lot 234

Group of 15 Chicago Photography Exhibition Posters.

Estimate: $250 - $500
Starting Bid
$125

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Group of 15 Chicago Photography Exhibition Posters. Chicago: V.p., 1980s. Offset lithograph posters. Group of 15 art exhibition posters for photography exhibits in Chicago. Including: LERNER, Nathan (American, 1913–1997). Fifty Years of Photographic Inquiry. Chicago: Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Oct 13–Dec 29, 1984. -- NOGGLE, Anne (American, 1922–2005). A Retrospective Exhibit. Chicago: The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Jan 13-Feb 25, 1984. Featuring Noggle's Reminiscence: Portrait with my Sister. -- UELSMANN, Jerry N. (American, b. 1934). Photographs from 1975–1979. Chicago: Chicago Center for Contemporary Photography, Jan 18–March 1, 1980. Two posters with different images. -- The Photographer and the City. Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1977. Featuring a photograph by Wayne Sorce. Design by Julius Friedman and Nathan Felde. Two copies. -- SELF. Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago, 1988/89. Lecture series featuring Bruce Charlesworth, Barbara Kruger, Nicolas Africano, Joel Shapiro, Peter Schjeldahl, William Wegman. Featuring the image La Reproduction Interdite by Rene Magritte. -- NEWMAN, Arnold (American, 1918–2006). Eastman Kodak Company Presents Arnold Newman In Search of Portraits. Art Institute of Chicago, Feb 14, 1987. Featuring Newman's photograph Bernice Abbott. -- The Joliet Prison Photographs. [Illinois State Museum, 1981]. -- Six posters for lecture series, photography department workshops, and events at Columbia College Chicago and the Center for Contemporary Photography. Posters featuring images/photographs/photographers: Gerrhino by William Wegman; Joseph J. Jachna; Steve Saunders; The Heidenberg Zeppelin Explodes and Burns, May 6, 1937: UPI/Bettmann Photo Library and Archive; Nuclear Vision by Sheila Pinkel; and others. -- Largest 28 x 22".

Condition

Overall very good/excellent. Some with pinholes and light toning and edge wear.

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