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1.Unidentified photographer
1870s
Three Men with Cigars

Tintype, 1/6 plate, in decorative silver frame - not original
Charles Schwartz Ltd
Courtesy of Charles Schwartz Ltd (www.cs-photo.com - #7405)
 
LL/9069
2.Unidentified photographer
n.d.
Original Groups. 104. Stealing a Smoke

Stereoview, detail
Jeffrey Kraus Antique Photographics
Great view of gentleman examining photographic display. Sign on cabinet reads "Free Exhibition of Stereoscopic View up stairs."
 
LL/37829
3.Felice Beato
1886-1901 (ca)
Birmanie. Jeune Femme au Cigare

Albumen print
20 x 30 cm
 
Photo Verdeau
(Alan Griffiths, 20 July 2018) The date is approximate and based on the time Felice Beato was in Burma.
 
LL/46256
4.Felice Beato
1886-1901 (ca)
Femme Birmane au cigare, à Mandalay, Birmanie

Albumen print
20 x 27 cm
 
Photo Verdeau
(Alan Griffiths, 20 July 2018) The date is approximate and based on the time Felice Beato was in Burma.
 
LL/39811
5.Naya & Schoefft
1875 (ca)
Portrait d'une femme du Caire à la cigarette. Egypte

Albumen print
21 x 27 cm
 
Photo Verdeau
LL/39870
6.Dmitry Ermakov
1880s
Persian man smoking in oriental interior

Albumen print
15 x 10.5 cm
 
Bassenge Photography Auctions
Courtesy of Bassenge, 19th-21st Century Photography, 6 June 2012, Lot: 4026
 
LL/47884
7.Wilhelm von Gloeden
1900 (ca)
Young Boy with a Dog and Cigarette

Albumen print
Vance Martin
LL/7856
8.Adolf Fassbender
n.d.
[no title available]
[Pictorial Artistry, The Dramitization of the Beautiful in Photography]

Photogravure
15 x 12 in
 
Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc
Courtesy of Larry Gottheim - Be-Hold (46 / 220)
 
LL/8154
9.Richard Throssel
1910 (ca)
Untitled (Smoking Cigarette)

Gelatin silver print
Museum of Photographic Arts - MOPA
Gift of Graham and Susan Nash, Accession Number: 2002.040.008
 
LL/45383
10.Gertrude Käsebier
n.d.
Man at Cafe with Cigar

Platinum print
22.5 x 16.8 cm (8 7/8 x 6 5/8 ins)
 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Gift of Mina Turner, Accession number: 1973.461
 
LL/46585
11.Hippolyte Délié
1865 (ca)
A woman in profile holding a cigarette

Carte de visite
Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs
H. Delie & Cie. Phot. (Cairo, Egypt)
 
Hippolyte Delié, Cairo, circa 1865. Card imprinted front "H. Delié & Cie. Phot." and on reverse "Photographie Universelle / H. Delié & Cie. / Caire (Egypte) / Succursale de la maison Pierson / Photographe de l'Emperor / Boulevart des Capucines, 3. / Paris."
 
LL/28691
12.Thomas Houseworth
n.d.
An "Old Soldier" left by Gen. U.S. Grant at Houseworth's Photographic Studio."

Cabinet card
Jeffrey Kraus Antique Photographics
LL/37865
13.Jacob A. Riis
1897 (published)
Bohemian Cigarmakers at Work in their Tenement

Book illustration
Harvard University Library
Jacob A. Riis How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the tenements of New York (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897), p.143.
 
LL/39225
14.Baron Adolph de Meyer
n.d.
Woman with Cigarette Case

Platinum print
9 7/16 x 7 1/2 ins
 
George Eastman Museum
LL/33191
15.Barbara Mensch
n.d.
Cigarette break
[South Street]

Gelatin silver print
Provided by the artist - Barbara Mensch
This photograph is included in the book "South Street" by Barbara Mensch (Columbia University Press, 2007)
 
LL/20182
16.Alfons Himmelreich
1960
Portrait for Dubek cigarette advert

Gelatin silver print
18 x 24 cm
 
Silver Print Gallery and Archive
Portrait was used in a poster made for the Dubek cigarette company.
 
LL/18366
17.Unidentified photographer (USA)
1920-1930s (ca)
[Camel dealers]

Photographic print
Collection Jim Linderman - Dull Tool Dim Bulb
LL/48485
18.Alfons Himmelreich
1960
Dubek cigarettes poster

Poster
Silver Print Gallery and Archive
LL/18367
19.Parisian Studio
1920 (ca)
Portrait of Henri Groulx and his rooster

Gelatin silver print
Library and Archives Canada
C-036255
 
LL/46628
20.Erwin E. Smith
1905-1915
Standing portrait of Bob Elroy of the Ox [man in chaps hand rolling cigarette]

Gelatin dry plate negative
8 x 5 in
 
Amon Carter Museum
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas - Erwin E. Smith Collection, Bequest of Mary Alice Pettis (P1986-41-26)
 
LL/11534
21.Unidentified photographer
1930 (ca)
Untitled [Misbehaving angel smokes a cigarette]

Gelatin silver print, double exposure
4 x 3 in
 
Private collection of David & Kim Leggett
LL/30033
22.Ira Latour
1953
Cigarette Boy, Seville, Spain

Gelatin silver print
13 x 10 in
 
Carl Mautz Vintage Photographs
LL/25702
23.Weegee
1961 (book publication)
Back of dust jacket cover for "Weegee by Weegee" (1st edition, 1961) Photographed by Philippe Halsman

Book cover, back
Private collection of Laurie Minor
LL/31485
24.William A. Kuenzel (Detoit)
1947, February
Arthur Fellig "Weegee"

Gelatin silver print
10 x 8 ins (paper)
 
Private collection of Willie Gregory
LL/43873
25.Okky Offerhaus
1969
Johnny Halliday

Gelatin silver print
12.2 x 17.8 cm (5 x 7 )
 
Galerie Johannes Faber
LL/1877
26.Laure Albin-Guillot
1930s
Une petite cigarette

Gelatin silver print
16.4 x 11 cm
 
Piasa
Photographs, 25 May 2012, Lot: 94
 
LL/48156
27.Barbara Mensch
n.d.
Heschy - a retailer
[South Street]

Gelatin silver print
Provided by the artist - Barbara Mensch
This photograph is included in the book "South Street" by Barbara Mensch (Columbia University Press, 2007)
 
LL/20187
28.Pine Woods
2007
Your Opinion Counts
[The American Typologies]

Typology of multiple vernacular photographs
Provided by the artists - Pine Woods
LL/31462
29.William Klein
1956
Hat and Five Roses, Paris, Vogue

Gelatin silver print
12 x 9 3/8 in (30.3 x 20.8 cm)
 
Christie's - New York
Christies - NY (Sale 1983: Lot 0237 - Oct 18, 2007)
 
Credit by the artist in pencil, collection stamp and small label affixed (on the verso)
 
Vogue [Paris], May 1956
 
LL/23764
30.William Klein
1958
Smoke and Veil, Paris (Vogue)

Gelatin silver print
16 x 20
 
Staley+Wise Gallery
LL/5699
31.William Klein
1958
Smoke and Veil [Variant]

Gelatin silver print
285 x 283mm
 
Source requested
LL/6277
32.Fotos de Estudios
1960s (early)
Castro

Gelatin silver print
49.5 x 38.5 cm
 
Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Courtesy of Dominic Winter Book Auctions (sale: Thursday 6th March 2009, Lot: 885)
 
A smiling Castro with glasses raised on his forehead, a large cigar bit between his teeth and a microphone in front of his chest, a little soiled and creased with some surface damage to extremities, wetstamp 'Fotos de Estudios' to verso and two small tape repairs to closed tears
 
LL/31583
33.Osvaldo Salas
1966
El Cigaro (Fidel Castro)

Gelatin silver print
15 x 10 3/4
 
Fahey / Klein Gallery
LL/4826
34.Léon Bouzerand
1934-1935 (ca)
Portrait of Léon Bouzerand outside his photographic shop in Cahors, France

Gelatin silver print
Private collection of Jacques Bouzerand
This portrait was taken soon after he opened his photography shop in Cahors in 1937.
 
Who took this portrait is unidentified.
 
LL/45791
35.Larry Clark
1963 (taken) 1980 (print)
Untitled
[Tulsa]
Fotomuseum Winterthur
© Larry Clark
 
For an analysis of this photograph: Juliet Hacking (ed.), 2012, Photography: The Whole Story, (Prestel), pp. 386-387
 
LL/6197
36.Brassaï
1944
Portrait of Dora Maar

Gelatin silver print
29.8 x 22.9 cm
 
Christie's - New York
Christies - NY (Sale 2086: Lot 0116 - Oct 17, 2007 - On Artists: Photographs from the Collection of Rex, Inc.)
 
'81, Rue du Faubourg St.-Jacques' credit and 'DM 1998' Maar Estate stamps (on the verso)
 
LL/23719
37.Weegee
1950s
Woman in space helmet smoking a cigarette

Gelatin silver print, ferrotyped
9 1/4 x 7 1/4 ins (23.5 x 18.4 cm)
 
Swann Galleries - New York
Courtesy of Swann Galleries (Auction, Dec 13, 2011, #2265, Lot 174)
 
With a Weegee Photo-Representatives hand stamp and notations, in an unknown hand, on verso.
 
LL/44961
38.Frank Ward
1984
A Cigarette at the Bar
[New England Barroom]

Gelatin silver print
14 x 14 in
 
Provided by the artist - Frank Ward
"Photographing with a waist-level viewfinder allowed me to talk with, and photograph, patrons while resting the camera on the bar." Frank Ward (Oct 14, 2007)
 
LL/23474
39.Louie Palu
1991-2006
Miner Lester Beattie having a smoke after drilling, Kerr Mine, Virginiatown, Ontario.
[Cage Call]

Gelatin silver print
16 x 20 ins
 
Provided by the artist - Louie Palu
"Cage Call" is a series of photographs from a 15-year project that examines the Canadian mining communities in Northern Ontario and Quebec.
 
Held in following collections: George Eastman House, Portland Art Museum, National Archives of Canada and private collections.
 
LL/43276
40.Bruce Haley
1996
Romania

Black and white image
Provided by the artist - Bruce Haley
LL/48543
41.Edward Steichen
1920s
Cigarettes and matches

Gelatin silver print
9,9 x 9,2 cm
 
Van Ham Fine Art Auctions
Van Ham - Contemporary Photographs, Literature on Photography (June 14, 2008) Lot: 263
 
Inventory note of gallery Rudolf Kicken, Cologne in pencil on verso.
 
Literature: Edward Steichen. Selected Texts and Bibliography. Ed.: Ronald J. Gedrim. Oxford, England: Clio Press, 1996. Comp. fig. plate 4 p. 3.
 
This stillife was composed of cigarettes of the brand "Melachring, Cairo Egypte, Four.. du Clue…".
 
Paul Strand wrote in his article "Steichen and Commercial Art" in the magazine "The New Republic" (vol. 61, no. 794, 19 Feb. 1930, p. 21): "This indeed is a startlingly revolutionary prophetic argument, a real contribution to aesthetics. At last the long sought for, much needed measuring stick: great art seeks to destroy or tie up with big business…the passionate penetration of life gleaming on, the billboard of the young Adonis who would walk a mile for a Camel!…those profound and moving songs which celebrate the major tragedies of "B.O." or the infinite pathos of 'No Sex Appeal'.".
 
Provenance: Gallery Rudolf Kicken, Cologne.
 
LL/29199
42.Imre Kinszki
1930 (ca)
Still-life (Cigarettes)

Gelatin silver print
4 3/4 x 6 1/2 ins
 
Howard Greenberg Gallery
Inventory no: 0017595
 
Signed in pencil with photographer's stamp on print verso
 
LL/37978
43.Edward Steichen
1927 (after)
Camel Cigarettes

Gelatin silver print
27.7 x 35.4 cm
 
George Eastman Museum
Bequest of Edward Steichen by Direction of Joanna T. Steichen (GEH NEG: 27209, 79:2408:0001)
 
LL/6991
44.Hans Finsler
n.d.
Für kleine Raucher

Gelatin silver print
16.7 x 23.4 cm
 
Van Ham Fine Art Auctions
Van Ham - Photography (June 20, 2012) Lot: 75
 
LL/48361
45.Hans Finsler
1929, May (before)
Aschenschalen II

Gelatin silver print
15,5 x 23,7cm
 
Van Ham Fine Art Auctions
Auction, Photography, 9 December 2011, Sale: 307, Lot: 1541
 
Hans Finsler. Neue Wege der Photographie. Ed.: Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg Halle. Leipzig: Edition Leipzig, 1991. fig. plate 282 p. 143 and 234.
 
LL/44858
46.Milton Greene
1960 (ca)
Marlene Dietrich with cigarette

Gelatin silver print
16 x 19 in
 
Carl Mautz Vintage Photographs
The legendary actress is seated on a circular wooden dais, wearing a black dress. Her hands, head and legs are dramtically lit. She is holding a cigarette in one hand.
 
LL/25719
47.Bruce Davidson
1959 (taken) 2004 (or earlier, print)
Brooklyn Gang

Gelatin silver print
8 1/2 x 12 7/8 ins (image) 11 x 14 ins (sheet)
 
L. Parker Stephenson Photographs
LL/46767
48.Roberto Salas
1963
Che Guevara (smiling with cigar)

Gelatin silver print
10 3/4 x 15
 
Fahey / Klein Gallery
LL/4827
49.John Cohen
1962 (taken) print (2000)
Bob Dylan at My Loft, Third Avenue

Gelatin silver print
8 1/4 x 12 3/8 ins (image) 10 7/8 x 13 3/4 ins (sheet)
 
L. Parker Stephenson Photographs
Signed, titled, and dated with image year, print year, and “SK” in pencil on print verso.
 
LL/46759
50.Jan Yoors
1963-1964
Untitled (The Miracles of 116th Street, Spanish Harlem)

Gelatin silver print
8 x 12 1/8 ins (image) 11 x 14 ins (sheet)
 
L. Parker Stephenson Photographs
Titled with negative and print dates "2010", and edition number with estate signature and copyright date in pencil on print verso. Estate stamp on print verso. (P0090JY)
 
LL/46750
51.Edward Grazda
1997
A Decrees From Mullah Omar Banning Smoking, Kabul
[Afghanistan 1992-2004]

Gelatin silver print
Provided by the artist - Edward Grazda
© Edward Grazda 2007
 
LL/16600
52.Henry M. Beach
1912 (ca)
"No Smoking Allowed"

Photo postcard, photomontage
3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in
 
Private collection of Robert Bogdan
LL/26462
53.Nickolas Muray
1936
Lucky Strike, Girl with Snowshoes

Carbro print
George Eastman Museum
© Nickolas Muray Photo Archives, Courtesy of George Eastman House, Gift of Mrs. Nickolas Muray (71:0051:0009)
 
LL/7254
54.Nickolas Muray
1935
Lucky Strike, Woman & Christmas Wreath

Color
George Eastman Museum
© Nickolas Muray Photo Archives, Courtesy of George Eastman House, Gift of Mrs. Nickolas Muray (77:0100:0047)
 
LL/7258
55.Nickolas Muray
1936
Lucky Strike, Girl in Red

Carbro print
George Eastman Museum
© Nickolas Muray Photo Archives, Courtesy of George Eastman House, Gift of Mrs. Nickolas Muray (71:0034:0015)
 
LL/7248
56.Nickolas Muray
1931
Camel Cigarettes, 3 in Red

Color print, assembly (Carbro) process
George Eastman Museum
© Nickolas Muray Photo Archives, Courtesy of George Eastman House, Gift of Mrs. Nickolas Muray (71:0034:0022)
 
LL/30800
57.Victor Keppler
1951
Camel cigarette advertisement - woman in convertible

Color print, assembly (Carbro) process
31.5 x 46.6 cm
 
George Eastman Museum
Gift of 3M Company: ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley (GEH NEG: 31351, 77:0292:0027)
 
LL/6999
58.Arthur Meyerson
1995
Marlboro Man, Hong Kong
[The Color of Light - Retrospective]

Archival inkjet print
Various
 
Provided by the artist - Arthur Meyerson
© 2006 Arthur Meyerson - Courtesy of the artist
 
LL/11564
59.Marc Yankus
1999
Miro Smoking
[Portrait]

Archival Pigment Print
11 x 17 in / 17 x 22 in
 
Provided by the artist - Marc Yankus
LL/32454
60.Krijn van Noordwijk
n.d.
Zon

Color print
Provided by the artist - Krijn van Noordwijk
LL/21335
   
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