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Lot 37
Sale 5856 - Photographs & Photobooks
Sep 11, 2019
9:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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$400 -
600
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$125
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Lot Description
MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE (AMERICAN, 1904-1971) BOUDOIR OF A SHARECROPPER'S WIFE
1937. Associated Press Photo, date (Nov 22 1937), and "Farmers Tenant" stamps on verso, and caption printed on newsprint including the quote: "Sometimes I tell my husband we couldn't be worse off if we tried." Gelatin silver print.
Image: 8 3/8 x 6 1/2 in. (21.3 x 16.5cm).
Sheet: 9 x 7 in. (22.9 x 17.8cm).
Margaret Bourke-White took photographs of sharecroppers in the Deep South for her book "You Have Seen Their Faces", which included text by her husband, the writer Erskine Caldwell.