Various Photographers
Magnum Founders: In Celebration of 60 Years
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April 5, 07:03 PM GMT
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6,000 - 9,000 USD
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Various Photographers
Magnum Founders: In Celebration of 60 Years Portfolio
(New York: Verso Limited Editions, 2007, an edition of 75 plus 7 hors commerce copies), a sewn-bound portfolio of 12 platinum prints by the founding members of Magnum including Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger, and David "Chim" Seymour, each with the photographer’s estate stamp embossed in the margin, 1936-55, printed in 2007; together with printed title, introduction by Elliott Erwitt, plate list, colophon, editioned '73' in pencil, photographer biographies, a printed list of Magnum photographers as of 2007 and a page with their signatures in pencil. Black buckram clamshell box with debossed title, lined with faux suede and with red Japanese crepe endsheets; together with a platinum print of 'Pablo Picasso and Françoise Gilot, Golfe-Juan, France,' by Robert Capa, embossed with the title, date, facsimile signature and estate stamp in the margin, 1948, printed in 2007
images: each approximately 10 by 7½ in. (25.4 by 19.1 cm.) or the reverse
portfolio: 17 by 15 in. (43.2 by 38.1 cm.)
The plates are:
Robert Capa:
1. Cerro Muriano, Córdoba front, Spain, September 5, 1936. "The Falling Soldier."
2. Omaha Beach, Normandy coast, France, June 6, 1944. The first wave of American troops landing on D-Day.
3. Zürs, Austria, February 1950, Celebrating Carnival.
Henri Cartier-Bresson:
1. Marseille, France, 1932. The Allée du Prado.
2. Alicante, Spain, 1933.
3. Srinagar, Kashmir, 1933.
George Rodger:
1. London, England, 1940. Life during the Blitz of World War II. A young boy wears his tin helmet with pride.
2. Chad, 1941. Hausa chieftains demonstrate their superb horsemanship in a "Fantasia."
3. Kordofan, Southern Sudan, 1949. The victor of a Korongo Nuba wrestling match.
David “Chim” Seymour:
1. Poland, 1948. An orphaned girl, Tereska, traumatized by her experiences in German concentration camps, makes a troubled attempt to draw a picture of her home.
2. Italian settlement of Alma, Northern Galilee, Israel, 1951. Eliezer Trito shows parental pride with the “first child”, Miriam Trito, born into the settlement, a daughter he had with his wife Miriam.
3. Rome, Italy, Borghese Gallery, 1955. Bernhard Berenson, American art collector of Lithuanian origin, looking at Pauline Bolghese [sic] by Antonio Canova.
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