Auction Catalog Saturday, October 13, 2012
Auction Catalog Saturday, October 13, 2012
Auction Catalog Saturday, October 13, 2012
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25. Aaron Siskind<br />
Harlem, ca. 1935/1981<br />
Gelatin Silver Print<br />
Signed Verso, 8 x 11 in.<br />
$2,500<br />
Courtesy of anonymous donor<br />
Aaron Siskind developed a love for<br />
photography after receiving a camera<br />
as a honeymoon gift from his wife. He<br />
became a member of the New York Photo League in 1932, and working within<br />
that group, he produced several socially conscious images, which included his<br />
most famous work entitled Harlem Document. In 1951, Siskind was invited by<br />
Harry Callahan to join the faculty at the Chicago Institute of Design, forming a<br />
valuable teaching partnership that informed scores of talented young photographers.<br />
In the 1970s, he and Callahan taught at Rhode Island of Design, and he<br />
continued to publish and exhibit widely through the 1980s.<br />
26. Ernest C. Withers<br />
Brook Benton and Elvis Presley, WDIA<br />
Goodwill Revue, Ellis Auditorium,<br />
Memphis, TN, December 6, 1957,<br />
1957/2004<br />
Gelatin Silver Print, AP 1/35<br />
Signed Verso, 10 x 10 in.<br />
$3,000<br />
Courtesy of Decaneas Archive<br />
decaneasarchive.com<br />
Ernest Withers was a freelance photographer<br />
famous for his black and<br />
white images of the segregated South in the 1950s and 1960s, Negro league<br />
baseball, and the Memphis blues scene. A native of Tennessee, Withers played a<br />
key role in the Civil Rights Movement as a result of his photographic documentation<br />
of the Emmett Till trial. He witnessed the Montgomery Bus Boycott,<br />
Medgar Evers’ funeral, the integration of Little Rock High School, the Memphis<br />
Sanitation Workers’ Strike and the Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination and<br />
funeral. Among his many awards and honors are honorary doctorate degrees<br />
from the Art Institute of Boston, Memphis College of Art, Syracuse University,<br />
and the Framingham State University.<br />
27. Lou Jones<br />
Butterflies, from the series Distressed:<br />
Memories, <strong>2012</strong><br />
Archival Pigment Print, AP<br />
Signed Recto, 8 x 8 in.<br />
$1,850<br />
Courtesy of the artist<br />
fotojones.com<br />
fotojonesblog.blogspot.com<br />
Lou Jones is past president of the New<br />
England chapter of the American Society of Media Photographers and was<br />
previously a long time member of the ASMP National Board of Directors. He is<br />
also one of the charter members of the Advertising Photographers of America.<br />
Jones’ images have been exhibited in galleries throughout the world, such as<br />
the Smithsonian and Corcoran Galleries, Washington, DC; Polaroid Gallery; San<br />
Francisco Museum of Modern Art, NY; deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum,<br />
MA; Cooper Hewitt Museum, NY; Detroit Institute of Arts, MI; and Feuerwagner,<br />
Austria. He has photographs in the collections of institutions such as the Fogg<br />
Museum (Harvard), MA; Wellesley College, MA; Middle Tennessee State University,<br />
TN; and University of Texas, TX. In 2000, the International Photographic<br />
Council (United Nations) presented him with their highest award and the<br />
Boston Photography Collaborative gave him their CONTACT award.<br />
28. Jeff Silverthorne<br />
Nude with Paper, 1980<br />
Gelatin Silver Print<br />
Signed Verso,16 x <strong>13</strong> in.<br />
$1,200<br />
Courtesy of anonymous donor<br />
Since receiving his MFA, BFA, and MAT<br />
from Rhode Island School of Design,<br />
Silverthorne’s work has been included<br />
in over 30 solo exhibitions, 40 group<br />
exhibitions, and 36 publications<br />
including three monographs. His work<br />
is in the permanent collections of the<br />
Museum of Modern Art, NY; the Los<br />
Angeles County Museum, CA; the Yale<br />
University Art Gallery, CT; the Museum<br />
of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; and the George Eastman House, NY. He also has work<br />
in Switzerland, Paris, Copenhagen, and the Czech Republic. Since 2002, he has<br />
served as an Associate Professor of Art and University Core Professor at Roger<br />
Williams University in Rhode Island.<br />
29. Neal Slavin<br />
Knickerbocker Greys, ca. 1990<br />
C-Print, 72/<strong>13</strong>5<br />
Signed Recto, 18 x 14 in.<br />
$2,200<br />
Courtesy of anonymous donor<br />
As a photographer and moviemaker,<br />
Neal Slavin has photographed for<br />
major magazines around the world,<br />
including The New York Times Magazine,<br />
Esquire, Frankfurter Allgemeine,<br />
Zeitung, and Rolling Stone Magazine.<br />
He attended Cooper Union School<br />
of Art and Architecture in New York,<br />
where he received a BFA. He received<br />
several National Endowment for the<br />
Arts grants and a number of awards from Communication Arts Magazine. In<br />
1986, he was named as the Corporate Photographer of the Year by the American<br />
Society of Magazine Photographers. He was also awarded the 1988 Augustus<br />
Saint-Gaudens Medal and the 2005 President’s Citation by the Cooper<br />
Union. His photographic work can be found in the Museum of Contemporary<br />
Photography, Chicago, IL.<br />
30. Frank Ward<br />
Girl with Dalai Lama Photo, Tibet,<br />
1994<br />
Gelatin Silver Print<br />
Signed Verso, 18 x 21 in.<br />
$700<br />
Courtesy of the artist<br />
Represented by Photo-Eye Gallery<br />
socialdocumentary.net/photographer/frankward<br />
After receiving an MFA degree from<br />
Bard College, Frank Ward became a<br />
professor in the Holyoke Community<br />
College Art Department. In 2011, he<br />
received a Massachusetts Cultural<br />
Council Artist Fellowship award for his work in the former Soviet Union. He<br />
has also received grants for his work with Puerto Rican community in Holyoke.<br />
The Polaroid Foundation and View Camera Magazine have awarded his work<br />
from Tibet, and the Rotary Foundation has funded much of his photography in<br />
India. He spends the majority of his free time teaching in Holyoke and leading<br />
photography workshops in central Asia.<br />
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