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Various Contemporary Photographers
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15,000 - 25,000 USD
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Description
- Various Contemporary Photographers
- 'THE INDOMITABLE SPIRIT: PHOTOGRAPHERS + FRIENDS UNITED AGAINST AIDS'
(New York: Photographers + Friends United Against AIDS, 1989, an edition of 50 numbered copies and 15 artists' proofs), a portfolio of 10 photographic works by JOHN BALDESSARI, CHUCK CLOSE, JAN GROOVER, ANNETTE LEMIEUX, DUANE MICHALS, RICHARD PRINCE, ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG, CINDY SHERMAN, BRUCE WEBER, and WILLIAM WEGMAN, each signed and numbered '11/50' and 7 dated by the photographers, each within an individual printed wrapper, 1979-89, printed in 1989; together with the printed title, introduction, plate list, and colophon. Folio, black linen clamshell box with an additional work, an offset image by BARBARA KRUGER, affixed to the cover, no. 11 in a total edition of 65
Provenance
Cremin and Associates
Acquired by Margaret W. Weston from the above
Catalogue Note
The portfolios offered in this and the following lot were published in 1990 and 1991 to support the Photographers + Friends United Against AIDS organization. The publication of the portfolios followed the exhibition, The Indomitable Spirit, which opened at the International Center of Photography and traveled to the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. Proceeds benefited the National Community AIDS Partnership, and the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR).