80th Anniversary Charity Art Auction to Benefit the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL

80th Anniversary Charity Art Auction to Benefit the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL

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Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher

Karo (woman wearing cowrie shell necklace) #99

Lot Closed

February 8, 10:22 PM GMT

Estimate

7,000 - 9,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher

b. 1945 Boston, MA; 1947 Adelaide, Australia (respectively)

Karo (woman wearing cowrie shell necklace) #99


Executed circa 1985-1996, printed in 2007. 

Signed, titled, dated and #1/7 on verso

Archival Lambda Color Photograph 

60 x 42 x 2 in (152.4 x 106.68 x 5 .1 cm) 


Please note that while this auction is hosted on Sothebys.com, it is being administered by the Norton Museum of Art (the “Norton”), and all post-sale matters (inclusive of invoicing and property pickup/shipment) will be handled by the Norton. As such, Sotheby’s will share the contact details for the winning bidders with the Norton so that they may be in touch directly post-sale.

Courtesy of Ellen and Larry Sosnow

Over the course of 35 years, photographers Angela Fisher and Carol Beckwith have amassed a treasure trove comprising equal parts photography and anthropology. As remarkable as the oeuvre is for its raw aesthetic power, it reveals ceremonies and rituals of Africa’s tribes that, with the rapid pace of change on the continent, gives the work fresh urgency. Even as the pair continues to find new cultures to document, they estimate that about 40 percent of the rites and ceremonies they have shot have already disappeared. Beckwith and Fisher have traveled more than 270,000 miles together, often in great discomfort, in pursuit of their images. While both artists have published books individually, their greatest work was created together.


Beckwith and Fisher’s work has been exhibited in museums around the world and they have had comprehensive exhibitions at such institutions as the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the National Geographic Museum, the Smithsonian Museum of African Art, and the Brooklyn Museum.They received the Award of Excellence from the United Nations Society of Writers and Artists “for vision and understanding of the role of cultural traditions in the pursuit of world peace,” and were specially honored by Kofi Annan in 1999. Their magazine credits include major features in National Geographic, The New York Times, Time, Vogue, and LIFE.