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Lot 17
Sale 5801 - Photographs & Photobooks
Sep 16, 2014
7:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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$800 -
1,200
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$600
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Lot Description
TWO CRIME PHOTOGRAPHSUNKNOWN ARTISTS "GERALD CHAPMAN"
Gelatin silver print and collage.
9 x 7 1/2 in. (22.9 x 19.1)
and;
Gelatin silver print with collaged photograph and applied graphite crop marks, ink and paint.
8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4cm)
(2)
note:
Each collage was created for an issue of American Crime Magazine between 1920-1935. Both were exhibited in 1987 at Pace/Macgill Gallery, New York, New York. Gerald Chapman was an early Prohibition-era gang member who was the first criminal to be dubbed "Public Enemy Number One" by the press.