5th Jun, 2024 18:00

OSTLICHT PHOTO AUCTION SPRING 2024

 
  Lot 50
 

RUTH ORKIN (1921–1985)
Robert Capa at Magnum luncheon, Paris 1951

Estimate
€1,600 - €1,800
 

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Lot details

Start price: €900

Estimate: € 1.600–1.800

English:

Gelatin silver print, printed in the late 1950s on double-weight glossy paper 23,9 x 17,3 cm, in very good condition. Stamp "For one time newspaper reproduction only", annotated "Robert Capa" and "Credit: Ruth Orkin" in pencil by an unidentified hand on the reverse.

This portrait of Robert Capa, the influential war photographer and Magnum co-founder, is one of Ruth Orkin's best-known, a print of which can be found in the "Robert Capa and Cornell Capa Archive" at the ICP New York. It was taken the year Orkin won LIFE Magazine's Young Photographer's Contest.

Deutsch:

Silbergelatineabzug, geprintet in den späten 1950er Jahren auf kartonstarkem, glänzendem Papier 23,9 x 17,3 cm, in sehr gutem Zustand. Rückseitig gestempelt "For one time newspaper reproduction only", von unbekannter Hand mit Bleistift beschriftet "Robert Capa" and "Credit: Ruth Orkin".

Diese Aufnahme von Robert Capa, dem einflussreichen Kriegsfotografen und Magnum-Mitgründer, zählt zu den bekanntesten Porträts von Ruth Orkin, ein Abzug befindet sich im "Robert Capa and Cornell Capa Archive" im ICP New York. Es entstand in jenem Jahr, in dem Orkin den "LIFE Magazine's Young Photographer's Contest" gewann.

Size: 23,9 x 14,7 cm

 

Auction: OSTLICHT PHOTO AUCTION SPRING 2024, 5th Jun, 2024

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