Photographs
Photographs
Alma Lavenson
'Food Products' (Virginia City)
Lot Closed
April 7, 04:34 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Alma Lavenson
1897 - 1989
'Food Products' (Virginia City)
gelatin silver print, signed twice, titled, dated, and annotated in pencil and ink on the reverse, 1939
image: 7 ¾ by 9 ¾ in. (19.7 by 24.8 cm.)
The collection of the photographer
By descent to her family
Alma Lavenson, 'Virginia City: Photographing a 'Ghost Town',' U. S. Camera, Travel Issue, No. 10, June-July 1940, p. 52
'A Pageant of Photography,' U. S. Camera, 1940, unpaginated
Susan Ehrens, Alma Lavenson Photographs (Berkeley, 1990), p. 75