50 Masterworks to Celebrate 50 Years of Sotheby’s Photographs
50 Masterworks to Celebrate 50 Years of Sotheby’s Photographs
Hansel Mieth
Rhesus Monkey
Lot Closed
April 21, 02:09 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Hansel Mieth
1909 - 1998
Rhesus Monkey
gelatin silver print, flush-mounted, signed and dated in ink and with the photographer's credit stamp on the reverse, 1939
image: 13 ¼ by 10 ½ in. (33.7 by 26.7 cm.)
LIFE, 16 January 1939, vol. 6, no. 3, p. 17
The Best of LIFE (New York, 1973), p. 302
Susan Ehrens, 'Hansel Mieth,' Photo Metro, 5:49, May 1987, p. 11
Thomas Knubben, Simple Life: Hansel Mieth - Otto Hagel, Fotografien aus Amerika / Photographs from America 1929 - 1971 (Stuttgart, 1991), pp. 17 and 83
Dolores Flamiano, 'Meaning Memory and Misogyny: LIFE Photographer's Hansel Mieth's Monkey Portrait,' Afterimage, September-October 2005 p. 22
Janet Zandy, Unfinished Stories: The Narrative Photography of Hansel Mieth and Marion Palfi (Rochester, 2013), p. 39
Dolores Flamiano, Women, Workers, and Race in LIFE Magazine: Hansel Mieth’s Social Reform Photojournalism, 1934-1955 (London, 2016), p. 134
Dolores Flamiano, 'LIFE’s Indispensable Women,' LIFE Magazine and the Power of Photography (Princeton University Museum and Yale University Press, 2020), p. 174