Four Decades: In Celebration of AIPAD
Four Decades: In Celebration of AIPAD
Paul M. Hertzmann, Inc., San Francisco, CA
Lee Miller
Notre Dame
Lot Closed
December 21, 07:27 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Paul M. Hertzmann, Inc., San Francisco, CA
Lee Miller
1907 - 1977
Notre Dame
gelatin silver print, the photographer's ’12, rue Victor / Considerant / Paris XIV’ studio stamp, a New York Evening Post use stamp, with page ‘5’ and no. ‘6’ in pencil, date stamp, clipped newspaper caption, and ‘Paris, France – Churches’ and reduction notations in pencil on the reverse, 1932
image: 11 by 8 ½ in. (27.9 by 21.6 cm.)
Acquired from the New York Evening Post archive
"One can imagine that this photograph was Lee Miller’s homage to Paris when it appeared in the New York Evening Post on Dec. 31, 1932. She had just returned to the U.S. from three years in France the month before. Her fame and myth are shaped by those years in Paris, where she joined the circle of Surrealists and became lover, muse, model and student of Man Ray. She learned photography quickly from him and established her own studio in Paris for her own commercial assignments.
In New York she also met with success, with commissions from Conde Nast’s magazine, Vogue, among others, and exhibitions of her photographs at the Julien Levy Gallery." - Paul Hertzmann and Susan Herzig
Paul M. Hertzmann, Inc., presents nineteenth- and twentieth-century photographs with a particular focus on American & European modernism, PhotoSecession, f/64, post-World War II, and the American West.