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See Great Photographs

September 17, 2020 by A. Cemal Ekin

If you are a regular visitor to this site, you will likely remember that I enjoy looking at vintage photographs. And, photo auctions at different auction houses offer all of us rare opportunities to see them.

I have just learned that Heritage Auctions is having a new auction coming up from an e-mail announcement. The collection of photographs, books, even a couple of cameras are very interesting and in many ways inspirational.

I have selected about twenty from the large collection just to whet your appetite. The photographers are in alphabetical order by their last name. So, you will start with Ansel Adams, a well-known one and an unusual one for him. Continue on, there are many interesting ones I selected with a focus on Leonard Freed and his photographs of life in the 1960s.

When you have seen enough here, then go to the Heritage Auction site and see more, many many more! And larger if you like.

I would like to know which ones you like and why. These are good pieces to write your reading of them. I will read your comments and questions and reply if necessary. Remember, click to see them full size.

All photographs are published with permission from Heritage Auctions.

Ansel Adams - Moonrise Hernandez
Ansel Adams - Skylight Dressing Room
Jean Eugene Auguste Atget - Rue de Chantres
Jean Eugene Auguste Atget - Shoe Store
Ruth Bernhard - Shell in Satin
Ilse Bing - Gold Lame Shoes
Nick Brandt - Rhinos In Lake Nakuru
Paul Caponigro - Stonehenge
Walker Evans - A Group of Four Architectural Photographs 1
Walker Evans - A Group of Four Architectural Photographs 2
Walker Evans - A Group of Four Architectural Photographs 3
Leonard Freed - All Night Gospel Meeting
Leonard Freed - Black Muslim Selling the Sect's Newspaper
Leonard Freed - Black Work Crew Takes a Lunch Break
Leonard Freed - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.-Motorcade
Leonard Freed - Open Fire Hydrant on a Hot Summers Day
Leonard Freed - Sisters
Andre Kertesz - Satiric Dancer
Andre Kertesz - Washington Square Park at Night
Edward Steichen - From The Blue Sky Portfolio
David Yarrow - Tsavo East
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  1. Haluk Atamal

    September 18, 2020 at 1:18 am

    Thanks for sharing those and nudging us to visit the auction.
    There are so many things to write about. It is overwhelming.
    I will suffice by remarking on Eugene Atget’s Shoe Store. Although I had seen the photo before, I had not noticed, amidst the awesome compositional details, the jocularly semantic placement of the lonely pair of “lesser” shoes at the right bottom and the man himself, behind the window.

    Take care and best regards,
    Haluk

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    • A. Cemal Ekin

      September 18, 2020 at 9:00 am

      Atget strolled the streets of Paris tirelessly and photographed anything and everything that inspired him. His style was unique to the era and today he is considered as a modernist even a surrealist. I have a couple of books of his photographs and ever one is a deligt to view. It shows you, you don’t have to travel too far to create great photographs.

      Thanks and have a great day, stay safe,

      Cemal

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