Photographs from the Ginny Williams Collection

Photographs from the Ginny Williams Collection

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Else Thalemann

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Lot Closed

December 4, 04:13 PM GMT

Estimate

1,000 - 2,000 USD

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Else Thalemann

1901-1984

Selected Images


2 gelatin silver prints, comprising Eiffelturm, Paris (Eiffel Tower, Paris) and Lokomotivendetail (Locomotive in detail), circa 1930 (2)

images: the largest 6 5/8 by 8 3/4 in. (16.8 by 22.2 cm.)

Else Thalemann worked as a photojournalist in Berlin in the 1930s for the Berlin-based photo agency Mauritius.  Thalemann emigrated to the United States in 1938 and the contents of her Berlin studio was destroyed during the war.  A similar study of the Eiffel Tower can be found in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.