Danny Lyon

titled and annotated in pencil and with the photographer's Bleak Beauty printing stamp, initialed and dated '1965' in pencil, two Magnum copyright stamps, a Black Star photo agency stamp, and credit in ink on the reverse, framed, the Buhl Collection label on the reverse, 1965

Lowinsky Gallery, New York, 1994

New York, Thread Waxing Space, Collection in Context: Selected Contemporary Photographs of Hands from the Collection of Henry M. Buhl, September - October 1996, and 8 other national and international venues through 1999 (see Appendix 1)

Marianne Courville, Collection in Context: Selected Contemporary Photographs of Hands from the Collection of Henry M. Buhl (New York, 1996), pl. 36 (this print)

This photograph, on double-weight Agfa paper with a surface sheen, is in generally excellent condition. The upper right margin corner is creased. On the reverse of the print, 'Uptown / Printed in Chicago' and 'SL#17' are in pencil. The photographer's dating of the Bleak Beauty printing stamp indicates that both the image and print were made in 1965.
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