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The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined

Alfred Eisenstaedt

A LIFE Portfolio: Alfred Eisenstaedt's Brooklyn Bridge Photographed for Its 100th Anniversary

Lot Closed

March 4, 08:47 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined

Alfred Eisenstaedt

1898 - 1995


A LIFE Portfolio: Alfred Eisenstaedt's Brooklyn Bridge Photographed for Its 100th Anniversary

signed in ink (in the margin of each photograph), stamped title and number 17 of 100 in foil (on the linen clamshell case)

portfolio comprising 12 gelatin silver prints held in a linen clamshell case

each image: 14½ by 9¾ in. or the reverse

each image: 36.8 by 24.8 cm. or the reverse

Executed in 1983, published by LIFE, Time Inc., this portfolio is number 17 from an edition of 100 plus 20 artist's proofs.


Please note that this lot will not be on view during the sale exhibition. It is located at our Long Island City, New York storage facility. If you would like to examine it in person before the sale please contact Montserrat Palacios at Montserrat.Palacios@sothebys.com

Time Life Lab

Granary Gallery, West Tisbury, Massachusetts

Acquired from the above in 1988 by the present owner