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Lot 39
Sale 5856 - Photographs & Photobooks
Sep 11, 2019
9:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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$400 -
600
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$375
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Lot Description
MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE (AMERICAN, 1904-1971) RELIGION AND THE LAND
1937. Associated Press Photo, date (Nov 22 1937), and Farmers Tenant stamps on verso, and caption printed on newsprint including the quote: "Sometimes I feel like I've lived on this place since the world began. Maybe I'll be here when everybody else has gone to heaven." Gelatin silver print.
Image: 6 3/8 x 8 3/8 in. (16.2 x 21.3cm).
Sheet: 7 1/8 x 9 in. (18.1 x 22.9cm).
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.