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Richard Avedon

'William Casby, Algiers, Louisiana, Born in Slavery, 3.24.63'

Auction Closed

May 1, 11:36 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Richard Avedon

1923 - 2004

'William Casby, Algiers, Louisiana, Born in Slavery, 3.24.63'


gelatin silver print, signed in the margin with a stylus, signed, titled, dated, editioned '6/11,' and negative number '39' annotated in pencil and with the photographer's copyright stamp on the reverse, framed, 1963

image: 6⅜ by 6⅛ in. (16.2 by 15.6 cm.)

frame: 16 by 14½ in. (40.6 by 36.8 cm.)

Hamburg Kennedy Photographs, New York, 2005
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
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Richard Avedon and James Baldwin, Nothing Personal (New York, 1964), unpaginated 

Richard Avedon, An Autobiography (New York, 1993), p. 83 

Richard Avedon: Evidence, 1944-1994 (New York, 1994), p. 146

Richard Avedon and Doon Arbus, The Sixties (New York, 1999), p. 125 

Richard Avedon and James Baldwin, Nothing Personal (Köln, 2017 re-print of the 1964 original), unpaginated