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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 />

PRC <strong>2012</strong> Benefit <strong>Auction</strong><br />

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