October 18, 2018 1:00 PM EDT
- New York, NY, US
- Auction Details
ARTISTS & AMATEURS: PHOTOGRAPHS & PHOTOBOOKS
by Swann Auction Galleries
432 lots
382: (PRO WRESTLING) An archive with over 120 portraits of pre-WWE Pro-wrestlers striking theatrical poses, photographed by Lil' Al' Vavas
383: (CIRCUS) A vast typological archive with over 1000 photographs documenting the transport trains and vehicle convoys of various circus c
384: (CINEMA) Group of 10 publicity stills from the movie Freaks, the classic horror tale directed by Tod Browning and reissued by Dwain Esp
385: (CINEMA) Binder with 46 publicity stills of major American, British, and European film stars in classic roles.
387: (SOLAR ECLIPSE) A series of 8 photographs depicting the solar eclipse of 1925 in Norwich, CT.
388: (LUNAR PHASES) A sequence of 15 photographs by Adolf Voigt and Hans Giebler depicting lunar phases, from waning to waxing crescents.
389: (ATOMIC BOMBS--TRINITY NUCLEAR TEST) A graphic and unfathomable series with 8 photographs by Berlyn Brixner (1911-2009) documenting the
390: (NUCLEAR AGE--SL-1 REACTOR DISASTER) A U.S. Atomic Energy Commssion album with 40 photographs documenting the aftermath and radioactive
391: (NAGASAKI & SASEBO, JAPAN) Group of 100 plus photographs by an American military photographer depicting the epicenter and periphery of
392: (WORLD WAR II, KOREAN AND VIETNAM WARS) Pair of binders containing a total of 21 press photographs, comprising 9 of the Vietnam War, 10
393: (JET PROPULSION LABORATORY--DEEP SPACE EXPLORATION) A lengthy, continuous roll with over 300 photographs that were transmitted to Earth
394: (N.A.S.A.) A pair of lunar orbiter albums with approximately 90 photos of the Moon's surface.
395: (YALTA) A suite of 7 photographs from the Yalta Conference with Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin.
397: EDDIE ADAMS (1933-2004) Street execution of Vietcong prisoner, Saigon.
398: NICK UT (1945- ) Children fleeing napalm attack, South Vietnam.
400: (DEMONSTRATIONS AND RALLIES) Binder with 13 politically-charged photographs.
401: (ANTHROPOLOGY--FACES OF AFRICA) A massive and typological archive including more than 2000 anthropological studies of young Africans, u



















