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1.Unidentified photographer
n.d.
View from top of Nelson's Pillar, Sackville Street (O'Connell Street), Dublin

Photograph
National Library of Ireland
NLI Ref.: HOG213
 
LL/48225
2.Unidentified photographer
1880 (ca)
Grenoble vue d'un ballon

Albumen print
16.8 x 12 cm
 
Tajan
Vente 9930, Lot 75
 
LL/54029
3.George Silk
1948
Brooklyn Dodger rookies train at Vero Beach, Florida

Gelatin silver print
16 x 20
 
Candace Dwan Gallery
LL/3708
4.George Rodger
1965
Soldiers marching towards St. Paul Cathedral at the funeral of Sir Winston Churchill, London
Barry Singer Gallery
LL/2956
5.Marte Previti
1940
Extension of power

Gelatin silver print
8 x 10 in
 
Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc
Courtesy of Larry Gottheim - Be-Hold (45 / 138)
 
Vintage 1940 print made in Lima Peru on the occasion of a visit to Peru of then U.S. Vice President Henry Wallace. The poetic title has many dimensions.
 
LL/10914
6.Margaret Bourke-White
1930 (taken) 1996 (print)
Hats in the Garment District, New York City

Silver print
14 3/4 x 20 in (37.5 x 50.8 cm)
 
Swann Galleries - New York
Courtesy of Swann Galleries (Auction, Oct 15, 2007, #2124, Lot 92)
 
With Bourke-White's embossed hand stamp and the edition notations, "2/250," in ink, on recto, and the LIFE Gallery hand stamp, and Time Inc. copyright, title, and date, in pencil, on verso; in a Bark frame.
 
LL/23163
7.Alexander Rodchenko
1935
Column of Sports Society "Dinamo"
Moscow House of Photography
LL/896
8.Umbo
1928
[Mystery of the Street]

Gelatin silver print
29 x 23.5 cm (11 7/16 x 9 1/4 in)
 
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987 (1987.1100.49)
 
Galerie Rudolf Kicken, Cologne and Phyllis Umbehr, Frankfurt/M.
 
LL/6360
9.Walker Evans
1929
New York City Street Corner

Gelatin silver print
18.4 x 12.7 cm (7 1/4 x 5 in)
 
J. Paul Getty Museum
Object number: 84.XM.956.47, © Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
 
LL/50612
10.André Kertész
1928
Study of People and Shadows, Paris

Gelatin silver print
15.9 x 22.1 cm (6 1/4 x 8 11/16 in)
 
J. Paul Getty Museum
Object number: 84.XP.909.1, © Estate of André Kertész
 
LL/50670
11.Lev Borodulin
1957
Broke away
Moscow House of Photography
LL/906
12.Arnos Pikart
1926
Banks of the Vltava, Prague

Gelatin silver print, enlargement, on warm-toned, matte surface bromide paper
9 x 11.7
 
Galerie Zur Stockeregg
LL/4504
13.Paul Strand
1916 (ca)
New York
[Camera Work, no. 48, pl. 07]

Photogravure
Lee Gallery
Image courtesy of the Lee Gallery (www.leegallery.com)
 
LL/3314
14.André Kertész
1931 (ca)
Ecoliers

Gelatin silver print, enlargement
9.2 x 6.9
 
Galerie Zur Stockeregg
LL/4484
15.Cristiano Mascaro
1978
Rua Santo Antonio, Sao Paulo

Gelatin silver print
20 x 20 in
 
Tepper Takayama Fine Arts
LL/8390
16.Elliott Erwitt
1972
Amboise, France

Gelatin silver print
Candace Dwan Gallery
LL/3775
17.Stanko Abadžic
2005
Skater
[Prague]

Gelatin silver print
Provided by the artist - Stanko Abadžic
LL/19562
18.Herbert Bayer
1928
Milan. piazza del duomo

Gelatin silver print
11 x 7.2
 
Galerie Zur Stockeregg
LL/4389
19.André Kertész
1965
New York (Boy on Bicycle)

Gelatin silver print
9 11/16 x 6 5/8
 
Barry Singer Gallery
LL/2900
20.Ilse Bing
1947
Quatre Balayeurs

Gelatin silver print
8.9 x 7.4
 
Galerie Zur Stockeregg
LL/4391
21.Ralston Crawford
1939 (ca)
Untitled (street scene from window)

Silver print
7 x 9 1/4 in (17.8 x 23.5 cm)
 
Swann Galleries - New York
Courtesy of Swann Galleries (Auction, Feb 7, 2008, #2135, Lot 70)
 
A letter accompanying the lot notes the provenance of the print: Ralston Crawford to his son John Crawford; to the Laurence Miller Gallery; to Mack Lee; to the present owner in 1996.
 
This print is believed to be unique.
 
LL/27105
22.André Kertész
n.d.
Untitled
Private collection of W.J. Coville
Courtesy of W.J. Coville (#999)
 
LL/14585
23.Alexander Rodchenko
1928-1930
Assembling for a Demonstration

Gelatin silver print
19 1/2 x 13 7/8 (49.5 x 35.3 cm)
 
MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York
Mr. and Mrs. John Spencer Fund
 
LL/1984
24.Henri Cartier-Bresson
1932
Hyeres

Gelatin silver print
11 x 14 / 16 x 20
 
Peter Fetterman Gallery
LL/472
25.Margaret Bourke-White
1952 (ca)
Showboat Tokyo

Gelatin silver print
12 7/16 x 10 9/16
 
Barry Singer Gallery
LL/2774
26.André Kertész
1966, 24 February
Washington Square Arch

Gelatin silver print
9 7/16 x 6 3/16
 
Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc
LL/4170
27.Klavdij Sluban
2001
Finland
[Other Shores - The Baltic Sea (2001-2005)]

Gelatin silver print
Provided by the artist - Klavdij Sluban
LL/15391
28.André Kertész
1929
Shadows, Eiffel Tower

Gelatin silver print
Peter Fetterman Gallery
LL/511
29.Irving Canner (1924-1998)
1950s
Untitled [Rue / Street]

Gelatin silver print
35.3 x 27.8 cm
 
Piasa
Photographs, 25 May 2012, Lot: 135
 
LL/48151
30.Gabriele Basilico
2008
San Francisco

Black & white photograph
100 x 120 cm
 
Galería Oliva Arauna
LL/27432
31.André Kertész
1966, 24 February
Washington Square

Gelatin silver print
9 5/8 x 6 3/8
 
Barry Singer Gallery
LL/2899
32.David Maisel
2004
Oblivion 1382-52p
Kopeikin Gallery (CLOSED - 2020)
© David Maisel, Courtesy Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles
 
Photo Synthesis
Colin Westerbeck
 
There's nothing like a good education to give you a unique perspective on the world. David Maisel graduated from Princeton summa cum laude in 1984, so it's not surprising that his work is brainy. He's aware that we live in a time when the economies are global, ideologies are not just political but geopolitical, science can look back beyond Noah's ark to the Big Bang, and nature itself is in danger of being extinguished.
 
It's also true that "eye in the sky" satellites are keeping a close watch on us all the time. This photograph might be taken for a digital enhancement of such surveillance, but in fact, it's a low-tech image, though made from a high altitude. Maisel wants to disconcert us, but his interest is in the metaphorical rather than the actual revelations that his point of view makes possible. He wants his aerial photographs to "create their own cosmologies," not just map objective reality.
 
His flyover of L.A. has yielded pictures that have this effect. They create a vision of a city more gothic than Gotham. This photograph of tract housing looks like an X-ray of the intestines of a giant beast that has eaten something it shouldn't have and is having trouble digesting it.
 
[Originally published in West Magazine : January 28, 2007, p.11]
 
LL/16807
33.William A. Garnett
1950
Foundations and Slabs, Lakewood, California

Gelatin silver print
J. Paul Getty Museum
© William A. Garnett [Getty: 2000.32.26]
 
LL/5988
34.Mario Giacomelli
1970s (ca)
Storie Della Terra

Silver print
Camera Obscura Gallery
LL/5244
35.Reem Al Faisal
2001-2003
Afternoon Prayer in Mekkah
[Haj / Pilgrimage in Mekkah]

Black and white print
30 x 40 cm / 60 x 80 cm
 
Provided by the artist - Reem Al Faisal
LL/18400
36.Unidentified photographer / artist
1962 (before)
Aerial photograph illustrating typical drainage pattern developed in area underlain by Gila conglomerate. Gila County, Arizona
United States Geological Service
US Geological Service (Digital File:pnp00001)
 
LL/6624
37.Unidentified photographer
1917, 14 February
Route de Reims à pont Gérard, Alt: 3800 (320-913)

Gelatin silver print
17.4 x 23 cm
 
AnamorFose
Aerial photograph taken by the French Army during WW1 in the vicinity of Verdun.
 
LL/10668
38.Unidentified photographer
1917, 10 February
Festieux, Alt: 2900 (113-089)

Gelatin silver print
17.4 x 23 cm
 
AnamorFose
Aerial photograph taken by the French Army during WW1 in the vicinity of Verdun.
 
LL/10665
39.Unidentified photographer
1940-1944 (ca)
America bombs Europe, WWII

Gelatin silver print
10 x 10 in
 
Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc
Courtesy of Larry Gottheim - Be-Hold (50 / 78)
 
104 original gelatin silver prints, mostly 10" x 10", some slightly smaller. These were taken looking down from the open bays of American bombers as the bombs dropped on targets in Europe. They are original contact prints of the film frames, often showing the film edges. The negatives have hand-written notations of the target, with exact location and coordinates. In some we see bombs falling. Others show the clouds and craters from previous bomb strikes. Some of the cities are Budapest, Vienna, Bucharest, Verona and others. These are bird's eye views of cities and landscapes just seconds before their pre-war topography was destroyed. But they also have a kind of abstract beauty. There are 104 in all, 39 of Italian targets, 14 Austrian, 19 Romanian, 16 Hungarian, 2 Bulgarian, 2 Czech, 7 others.
 
LL/22459
40.Unidentified photographer
1917, 10 February
Sainte-Croix, Alt: 2700 (124-060)

Gelatin silver print
17.4 x 23 cm
 
AnamorFose
Aerial photograph taken by the French Army during WW1 in the vicinity of Verdun.
 
LL/10666
41.Unidentified photographer
1916, 31 July
Ouest des Cavaliers de Courcy, Alt: 2000 (291-855)

Gelatin silver print
17.4 x 23 cm
 
AnamorFose
Aerial photograph taken by the French Army during WW1 in the vicinity of Verdun.
 
LL/10667
42.Unidentified photographer / artist
2005, 31 August
Grand Isle, La., two days after Hurricane Katrina struck the U.S. Gulf Coast.

Aerial photograph
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Courtesy of US Government: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
 
LL/7955
43.Unidentified photographer / artist
2005, 31 August
Grand Isle, La., two days after Hurricane Katrina struck the U.S. Gulf Coast. [Enlarged section]

Aerial photograph
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Courtesy of US Government: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
 
LL/7956
44.Unidentified photographer
n.d.
WWII Bombing Photograph

Gelatin silver print
Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc
Courtesy of Larry Gottheim (Auction: March 13, 2008, 51, part 2 / lot 98)
 
LL/27738
45.Esteban Pastorino
2006
Untitled (distribuidor)

C-print, digital
PDNB Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery
LL/15087
46.2000, 17 February
Radar Image, Hokkaido, Japan

NASA Radar image
NASA
NASA/JPL/NIMA (Visible Earth v1 ID 1070)
 
LL/6841
47.2000, 6 October
Washington, D.C.

NASA Terra/ASTER image
NASA
NASA GSFC, MITI, ERSDAC, JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team (Visible Earth v1 ID 5369)
 
LL/6842
48.Staff Sgt. Aaron Allmon II
2004, 17 May
A Black Hawk helicopter is transported by a CH-47 Chinook during a sling-load mission to Logistics Support Area Anaconda in Iraq.

Digital photograph
U.S. Army
Photo Courtesy of U.S. Army
 
LL/2067
49.Brassaï
1935 (ca)
Pont Transbordeur, Marseilles

Gelatin silver print, ferrotyped paper
9.1 x 6.9
 
Galerie Zur Stockeregg
LL/4399
50.Owen Kanzler
1985
Self Portrait, Seaside Heights, New Jersey

Chromogenic print
Afterimage Gallery
LL/1525
51.Unidentified photographer / artist
n.d.
Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Indiana. this color infrared aerial photograph shows a major part of the lakeshore. Vegetation is shown in red.
United States Geological Service
US Geological Service (Hill, C.L. 24cp)
 
LL/6621
   
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