Classic Photographs
Classic Photographs
IRVING PENN | DR. & MRS. GILBERT H. GROSVENOR
Auction Closed
October 3, 04:15 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
IRVING PENN
1917-2009
DR. & MRS. GILBERT H. GROSVENOR
platinum-palladium print, flush-mounted to aluminum, signed, dated, editioned '15/35,' and annotated in pencil, stamped, and with a typed label on the reverse, framed, 1951, printed in 1968 (Moments Preserved, p. 114)
14⅜ by 20⅛ in. (36.5 by 51.1 cm.)
Light Gallery, New York, 1984
Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor (1875-1966) and his wife Elsie May (1878-1974) had formidable ties to scientific and technological developments in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Dr. Grosvenor was President of The National Geographic Society and the editor of National Geographic Magazine from 1899 to 1954. Considered the father of photojournalism, he was instrumental in establishing the periodical as a leading chronicle of scientific exploration. Mrs. Grosvenor was the daughter of Alexander Graham Bell, who patented the invention of the telephone in 1876.