George Hoyningen-Huene (1900 - 1968)/Martin Axon (b. 1947)

platinum-palladium print on canvas, titled, dated, numbered '1/5,' and credited to the photographer in an unidentified hand in pencil and with the Hoyningen-Huene/Horst copyright blindstamp 4 times on the reverse, framed, 1930, printed later by Martin Axon from HOYNINGEN-HUENE's negative, no. 1 in an edition of 5 platinum-palladium prints on canvas

Other prints of this image:

Eye for Elegance, George Hoyningen-Huene (Rochester: George Eastman House, 1980, in conjunction with the exhibition), p. 39

William A. Ewing, The Photographic Art of Hoyningen-Huene (London, 1986), pl. 66

20th Century Photography (Köln: Museum Ludwig, 2001), p. 277

Happy Birthday Photography (Kunsthaus, Zürich, 1989, in conjunction with the exhibition), pl. 136

The Uwe Scheid Collection (Überherrn, 1998), unpaginated

Chorus of Light: Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection (Atlanta: High Museum of Art, 2000, in conjunction with the exhibition), p. 106

Miles Barth and Alan Siegel, One Man's Eye: Photographs from the Alan Siegel Collection (New York, 2000), pl. 17

Nancy Hall Duncan, The History of Fashion Photography (George Eastman House, 1979), p. 61

This photograph is in generally excellent condition. There are two tiny, negligible pinpoint areas of yellow and gray discoloration in the center and lower right quadrants. The canvas is bolted to Plexiglas and framed.
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