Ezra Stoller

the photographer's 'Ezra Stoller Associates, Rye, N. Y.' credit/copyright/studio stamp on the reverse, mounted, Famous Photographers Course lesson stamp and page numbers and annotations in crayon and ink in the margins, Famous Photographers School stamps, with annotations in pencil and ink, on the reverse, framed, 1951 (Famous Photographers Course, Volume III, Lesson 23, 'Basic Moviemaking,' p. 16, this print)

Nina Rappaport and Erica Stoller, Ezra Stoller, Photographer (New Haven, 2012), fig. 11, p. 26 (in color)

This print, on double-weight paper and a surface sheen, is mounted to off-white board that has rubbed edges and bumped corners. The FPS lesson stamp is in the lower right corner, and it has been marked 'A,' and there are red ink guidelines in intervals on the front of the mount. The print is lifing from the mount in the lower right corner, and when examined in raking light, the following are visible: several sharp creases, light silvering in the dark areas, and pinpoint indentations. On the reverse of the soiled mount, with adhesive remains across the top edge, are the following stamps: 'Famous Photographers School, Wilton Road, Westport, Conn.,' 'Please Return to Art Archives Graphics Building - Original Art,' and FPS Lesson stamp with lesson 23 and page 16 in pencil and ink.
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The photograph in this and the following two lots come from the archives of the Famous Photographers School, a correspondence course for budding photographers that operated from 1964 into the 1970s.  Ezra Stoller was a member of the school’s Guiding Faculty, along with Richard Avedon, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Philippe Halsman, Irving Penn, and Bert Stern.