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| 1. |  | Brown Brothers 1911 Triangle Fire Victims Awaiting Identification Gelatin silver print 6 x 7 3/4 in (15.2 x 19.7 cm) Swann Galleries - New York Sale 2208 Lot 22 With the title, in pencil, in an unknown hand, and the Brown Brothers's hand stamp on verso. The Photograph and the American Dream 1840-1940, 99. The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, as it is now known, occurred on March 25, 1911 in the NYU Building, east of Washington Square, in New York City. The fire caused the death of 146 garment workers, most of whom were women, who had been locked in the factory by management and were unable to flee. Most perished due to burns, impact injuries and asphyxiation. As a result, the International Ladies Garment Worker's Union fought for safer working conditions in sweatshops. |
| 2. |  | Felice Beato 1868 Post-Mortem of Lieutenant Camus [Post-Mortem of Lieutenant Camus; Foreigners Assassinated by Japanese Samurai; Imprisonment and Punishment of Japanese Assassins] Albumen print Charles Schwartz Ltd Courtesy of Charles Schwartz (#9054) Post-mortem of Lt. Camus - attributed to Felice Beato. Shows the badly mutilated corpse of Lieutenant Camus who was assassinated by anti-foreigner Samurai on the outskirts of Yokohama, Oct. 1863. On the verso of the print, penciled in unknown hand, possibly by Beato, are several graphic accounts detailing the assassination of Camus indicating that Camus was a French Military officer and was assassinated by three Ronin on 10/18/1863, in the suburbs of Yokohama, while on horseback. It indicates that this photograph was taken in order to report the atrocity to France. |
| 3. |  | Unidentified photographer 1868 Assassins of Sir Henry Parkes [Post-Mortem of Lieutenant Camus; Foreigners Assassinated by Japanese Samurai; Imprisonment and Punishment of Japanese Assassins] Albumen print Charles Schwartz Ltd Courtesy of Charles Schwartz (#9054) This unattributed view shows the head of Parkes' assassin, Hihashida. Penned in ink, possibly by Beato, under each photo reads: "Itchikkawa Shabro, Gaung usashinguzu (?), a priest taken prisoner at the attack on Sir Henry Parkes, 23 March 1868" and "Head of Hi-hashi-da, a medical student (one of the Kioto assassins) who attacked Sir Henry Parkes when going to visit Mikado, 23rd March '68, & was killed on the spot by Yakunin Gotoshojiro, officer of the Mikado court." |
| 4. |  | Frederik William Sutton 1868 Assassins of Sir Henry Parkes [Post-Mortem of Lieutenant Camus; Foreigners Assassinated by Japanese Samurai; Imprisonment and Punishment of Japanese Assassins] Albumen print Charles Schwartz Ltd Courtesy of Charles Schwartz (#9054) This photograph by British photographer Frederik William Sutton shows accused collaborator Ichikawa Shaburo prior to his execution. |
| 5. |  | Sumner & Son (Northfield) 1876 Styles, Miller James Gang, killed Gelatin silver print 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 in Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc Courtesy of Larry Gottheim - Be-Hold (49 / 45) Double portrait of the two members of the Jesse James/ Younger Brothers gang who were killed in the failed Northfield Bank robbery. They are propped up on a bench, showing their wounds. 3 ¢" x 2 ¢" gelatin-silver print on a 5 ¢" x 4 +" gray mount with the Sumner & Son blindstamp. "Styles" and "Miller" is written in pen above the print, and in another hand on verso. (Larry Gottheim) |
| 6. |  | Unidentified photographer 1938 Murder in Barroom (Royal Bar & Restaurant)à Manhattan Gelatin silver print Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc Courtesy of Larry Gottheim - Be-Hold (54 / 48) No imprint, but original paper slug. |
| 7. |  | Felice Beato 1860 Interior view of the North Fort of Taku on the Peiho River, near Tientsin (Tianjin), China, following its capture by the English and French armies on August 21st 1860. The battlements and cannons are surrounded by Chinese corpses. Albumen print Wellcome Collection Wellcome Library, London (V0037622) |
| 8. |  | Felice Beato 1860 Interior view of the North Fort of Taku on the Peiho River, near Tientsin (Tianjin), China, following its capture by the English and French armies on August 21st 1860. The battlements and cannons are surrounded by Chinese corpses. Albumen print Wellcome Collection Wellcome Library, London (V0037624) |
| 9. |  | Felice Beato 1861 (published) Interior of the North Fort, Takoo, at the angle where the British Forces entered Lithograph Google Books Robert Swinhoe, Narrative of the North China Campaign of 1860; Containing Personal Experiences of Chinese Characters, and of the Moral and Social Condition of the Country; Together with a Description of the Interior of Pekin, (London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1861) From a Photograph by Signor Beato Published by Smith, Elder & Co., 85 Cornhill, London, 1861 Lithograph by Day & Son. |
| 10. |  | Felice Beato 1871, 11 June (ca) Interior of Fort McKee Albumen print 9 5/16 x 11 5/8 ins J. Paul Getty Museum Partial gift from the Wilson Centre for Photography, 2007.26.108 Curatorial description (Getty Museum): In a two-day assault, American forces captured and destroyed five forts and killed more than 240 Korean soldiers. Fort McKee was the site of the main offensive. There Beato arranged rebel corpses to create macabre photographs of the battlefields, in a style reminiscent of his work in India and China. Note (Alan Griffiths, 3 October 2013): The name Fort McKee takes its name from Lieutenant Hugh Wilson McKee (USN) one of the three Americans who were killed in action during the Punitive Expedition (1871). Lieutenant Hugh Wilson McKee (USN) Born April 23, 1844, Lexington, Kentucky Graduated 1866, United States Naval Academy Served aboard the USS Michigan, USS Franklin, USS Canandaigua, USS Colorado Killed in Action, June 11, 1871, Kanghwa Island, Korea (died aboard the USS Monocacy) Buried in Lexington Cemetery, Lexington, Kentucky Source: http://www.shinmiyangyo.org/ (Accessed: 3 October 2013) |
| 11. |  | Felice Beato 1865-1868 Execution of the Servant Sokichi Albumen print, hand-coloured 28,9 x 23 cm Bassenge Photography Auctions Courtesy of Bassenge, Berlin (Photography, Sale: 90, Lot: 4020, Dec 5, 2007) In the early Meiji period the 25 year-old servant Sokichi was executed by crucifixion for the murder of the son of his employer, a store-owner, during the course of a robbery. He was affixed to a stake with two cross-pieces by tying. Literature: William A. Ewing. Faszination Körper. Meisterfotografien der menschlichen Gestalt (Leipzig, 1998) p. 251. William A. Ewing The body: photographs of the human form (Chronicle Books, 1994) p. 250. ISBN 0811807622. |
| 12. |  | Eugène Sevaistre 1860-1861 (ca) La batteria Conca [Gaeta, Italy] Albumen print Comune di Gaeta In questa fotografia, come in altre, figurano cadaveri di soldati napoletani. Verosimilmente si tratta di un espediente pseudo documentario realizzato con figuranti dopo l'avvenuta sepoltura delle salme dei caduti. 150 Unita d'Italia Gaeta (1861-2011) |
| 13. |  | Dmitri Baltermants 1941 (taken) 1980s (print) On the road to war Gelatin silver print, ferrotyped 6 3/4 x 10 1/2 ins (17.1 x 26.7 cm) Swann Galleries - New York Sale 2257 Lot 130 With Baltermants's signature, in pencil, and a collection hand stamp on verso. |
| 14. |  | E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. 1865, 2 April (taken) 1870-1874 (ca, published) A dead Confederate soldier as he lay in the trenches of F[ort Mahone] called by the soldiers "Fort [Damnation]" [The War of the Union. Photographic History.] Negative, safety film Stereocard Library of Virginia - State Library and Archive Record number: 000005124, Stereograph Virginia Petersburg CW002 On verso: "War views … view taken the morning after the storming of Petersburgh [sic], Va., April 2d, 1865. No. 3190." |
| 15. |  | Alexander Gardner 1863 (taken) 1865 (published) Dead Confederate Soldier / Home of A Rebel Sharpshooter [Incidents of the War] Albumen print h: 7 x w: 8.9 in / h: 17.8 x w: 22.6 cm Etherton Gallery Artist, title, copyright info printed on mount recto. |
| 16. |  | Timothy H. O'Sullivan 1863, July A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania [Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War. Incidents of the War, pl. 36] Albumen print 7 x 9 ins Lee Gallery Courtesy of Lee Gallery (Z1365) "Negative by T.H. O'Sullivan. Gettysburg, July, 1863. Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1865, by A. Gardner, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia. Incidents of the War. Harvest of Death. Published by Philp & Solomon, Washington. Positive by A. Gardner, 511 7th Street, Washington" printed in the margin recto. Original caption: Slowly, over the misty fields of Gettysburg as all reluctant to expose their ghastly horrors to the light came the sunless morn, after the retreat by Lee's broken army. Through the shadowy vapors, it was, indeed, a "harvest of death" that was presented; hundreds and hundreds of torn Union and rebel soldiers although many of the former were already interred strewed the now quiet fighting ground, soaked by the rain, which for two days had drenched the country with its fitful showers. A battle has been often the subject of elaborate description; but it can be described in one simple word, devilish! and the distorted dead recall the ancient legends of men torn in pieces by the savage wantonness of fiends. Swept down without preparation, the chattered bodies fall in all conceivable positions. The rebels represented in the photograph are without shoes. These were always removed from the feet of the dead on account of the pressing need of the survivors. The pockets turned inside out also show that appropriation did not cease with the coverings of the feet. Around is scattered the litter of the battle-field, accoutrements, ammunition, rags, cups and canteens, crackers, haversacks, &c., and letters that may tell the name of the owner, although the majority will surely be buried unknown by strangers, and in a strange land. Killed in the frantic efforts to break the steady lines of an army or patriots, whose heroism only excelled theirs in motive, they paid with life the price of their treason, and when the wicked strife was finished, found nameless graves, far from home and kindred. Such a picture conveys a useful moral: It shows the blank horror and reality of war, in opposition to its pageantry. Here are the dreadful details! Let them aid in preventing such another calamity falling upon the nation. For an analysis of this photograph: Juliet Hacking (ed.), 2012, Photography: The Whole Story, (Prestel), pp. 130-131 |
| 17. |  | Unidentified photographer / artist 1865 (ca) C.S. soldier killed in the trenches, at the storming of Petersburgh [sic], Va., April The marks and spots on his face, are blood issuing from his mouth and nose. The wound is in the head, caused by a fragment of shell. Stereocard Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division LC-USZC4-1850 No. 29 Civil War Photograph Collection. Copyright by E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. "Photographic History-The War for the Union." Print from Mathew Brady studio negative; cf. negative LC-B811-3180 or LC-B8184-3180. |
| 18. |  | Unidentified photographer 1882, 6 December Dead soldier at Tel-el-Kebir [Egypt] Albumen print National Science and Media Museum Ref Number: 1995-5001/7/10 |
| 19. |  | A. Horsley Hinton 1898 Motiv Aus Suffolk [Die Kunst in der Photographie (Art Folio #6)] Photogravure-Chine-collé 20.1 x 15.7 cm Photoseed Photograph courtesy PhotoSeed.com Heliographed (Plate) & Printed by: Georg Buxenstein & Comp. (Berlin) |
| 20. |  | George E. Trager 1890, 29 December (after) Burial of the dead at the battle of Wounded Knee, S.D. [South Dakota]. National Museum of Health and Medicine Photograph taken by George E. Trager and credited to the Northwestern Photo Co (Chadron, Nebraska) On reverse: Showing trench for burial of Indian dead in which were placed 84 men and 64 women and children, killed in affair with Big Foot's Siouxs at Wounded Knee, S.D. Dec. 29 1890. The Smithsonian's National Anthropological Archives has other pictures from this series. This image was posted to Flickr in Feb 22, 2009. - otisarchives1 / Otis Historical Archives Nat'l Museum of Health & Medicine |
| 21. |  | Strohmeyer & Wyman n.d. A sacrifice to Aguinaldo's ambition, Behind the Filipino Trenches after the Battle of Malabon, P.I. Stereocard, detail Jefferson Stereoptics Courtesy of John Saddy (Auction, Tue, Dec 12, 2006 & Thu, Dec 14, 2006, # 06-4, Lot 728) |
| 22. |  | Unidentified photographer 1900, January Killed British soldiers lying in trenches after the Battle of Spioenkop, near Ladysmith, Natal, South Africa. Photograph Source requested Courtesy of the Transvaal Archive |
| 23. |  | Unidentified photographer 1910 (ca) [Loading dead on cart] Gelatin silver print 8.8 x 8.8 cm Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin HRC (973:0006:0001-0175) |
| 24. |  | Underwood & Underwood 1904-1905 The horrors of modern war! A trench filled with Japanese dead in a Russian fort Port Arthur Stereocard Private collection of John Hannavy |
| 25. |  | Underwood & Underwood 1904-1905 The horrors of modern war! A trench filled with Japanese dead in a Russian fort Port Arthur Stereocard, detail Private collection of John Hannavy |
| 26. |  | Manuel Ramos 1913 More dead in the plaza, Mexico City [Album, Mexican Revolution] Gelatin silver print DeGolyer Library, South Methodist University - SMU Southern Methodist University, Central University Libraries, DeGolyer Library, Call Number: Ag1996.1039, p.4 This photograph which shows fighting and casualties outside the Palacio Nacional (National Palace), is one of forty-three photographic prints from an album of the Mexican Revolution by Manuel Ramos (1874-1945) illustrating damage in Mexico City during the February, 1913 uprising against President Francisco I. Madero (1873-1913) also called La Decena Tragica. |
| 27. |  | Walter H. Horne 1913 Untitled [Dead bodies on a Mexican battlefield] Postcard DeGolyer Library, South Methodist University - SMU Southern Methodist University, Central University Libraries, DeGolyer Library, Call number: Ag1993.0873 |
| 28. |  | Unidentified photographer / artist n.d. [Before the execution] Postcard Source requested Information sought |
| 29. |  | Unidentified photographer / artist n.d. [After the execution] Postcard Source requested Information sought |
| 30. |  | Keystone View Company n.d. 11904 - the Dead Soldier Stereocard Private collection of Kevin Yee |
| 31. |  | Keystone View Company n.d. 11904 - the Dead Soldier Stereocard, half Private collection of Kevin Yee |
| 32. |  | Unidentified photographer 1919 Homecoming Photographic print Private collection of Brad Feuerhelm The return of the fallen from World War I. This photograph was included in the Facebook album "Unlearning one procession at a time ad infinitum" of Brad Feuerhelm. (2010) |
| 33. |  | Unidentified photographer 1919 Homecoming Photographic print Private collection of Brad Feuerhelm The return of the fallen from World War I. This photograph was included in the Facebook album "Unlearning one procession at a time ad infinitum" of Brad Feuerhelm. (2010) |
| 34. |  | Minor B. Wade (American, 1874-1932) 1908 [Lynching, Russellville, Kentucky] Gelatin silver print 11.8 x 9.1 cm (4 5/8 x 3 9/16 ins) Metropolitan Museum of Art Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005, Accession Number: 2005.100.126 |
| 35. |  | Acme Newspictures and United Press 1934 Body of John Dillinger, Desparardoà Last Ride to Morgue Gelatin silver print Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc Courtesy of Larry Gottheim - Be-Hold (54 / 46) Stamps on verso for Acme Newspictures and United Press. Original paper slug. |
| 36. |  | Robert Capa 1936 Death of a Republican Soldier, Spain, near Cerro Muriano, about September 5, 1936 Gelatin silver print Peter Fetterman Gallery For an analysis of this photograph: Juliet Hacking (ed.), 2012, Photography: The Whole Story, (Prestel), pp. 190-191 |
| 37. |  | Unidentified photographer 1936-1938 Spanish Civil War - press photograph Gelatin silver print Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc Courtesy of Larry Gottheim - Be-Hold (52 / 89) |
| 38. |  | 1936-1938 Spanish Civil War - press photograph Newspaper clipping Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc Courtesy of Larry Gottheim - Be-Hold (52 / 89) |
| 39. |  | George Strock 1942 [Dead marines on Buna Beach, Papua New Guinea] Photograph Source requested © George Strock / Life |
| 40. |  | Art Green n.d. WWII press photo. "Battle Stations" shows the body of a gunner slumped over his wrecked shipboard station Gelatin silver print 9 + x 7 + in Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc Courtesy of Larry Gottheim (Auction: March 13, 2008, 51, part 2 / lot 99) |
| 41. |  | Lee Miller 1945, 30 April Buchenwald, Germany: Dead Prisoners Gelatin silver print Lee Miller Archive Images of concentration camp victims, made by Miller and reproduced in Life, provided conclusive evidence that Germany had engaged in the extermination of Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, and other so-called undesirables who they demonized as unalterably dangerous, evil, and unredeemable. See Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996). |
| 42. |  | Unidentified photographer (French) 1945, 27 November 11/27/1945 - Stabbed by wife during an argument and a scuffle [French morgue] Gelatin silver print Northern Light Gallery |
| 43. |  | Margaret Bourke-White 1952, 17 November Decapitated North Korean Communist Gelatin silver print LIFE Margaret Bourke-White./Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images, 3108907 |
| 44. |  | Philip Jones Griffiths n.d. Vietnamese Children file past a Dead Child Gelatin silver print 7 7/8 x 11 7/8 in Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc Courtesy of Larry Gottheim - Be-Hold (52 / 114) Various numbers, notations in French and markings on the verso, with his Magnum stamp. |
| 45. |  | Eddie Adams 1968 Execution of a Viet Cong Officer Gelatin silver print, ferrotyped 7 x 8 1/2 in (17.8 x 21.6 cm) Swann Galleries - New York Courtesy of Swann Galleries (Auction, Oct 22, 2009, Photographs & Photographic Literature, Sale 2191 Lot 256) With a caption label in the negative and the Plain Dealer Library hand stamp and notations on verso. |
| 46. |  | Sergeant Ronald Haeberle 1968 (taken) 1969 (print) Bodies of women and children are shown on a road leading from the village of My Lai massacre, South Vietnam Silver print, ferrotyped 6 1/4 x 8 3/4 in (15.9 x 22.2 cm) Swann Galleries - New York Courtesy of Swann Galleries (Auction May 20, 2010, Sale 2215 Lot 397 With a Wire Service caption on recto and notations and a date stamp on verso. Sgt. Haeberle took this photograph in 1968, when he was on duty with the unit that entered the village. But the picture was not made public until November 30, 1969, when it first appeared in print. |
| 47. |  | Unidentified photographer 1963 Ritual Suicide, Saigon Gelatin silver print 10 x 8 ins Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc Courtesy of Larry Gottheim - Be-Hold (54 / 109 With UPI credit stamp and yellow text slug."This was the 6th suicide in less than four months by a Buddhistà. To protest policies of the à Diem government." |
| 48. |  | Don McCullin 1968 Tet Offensive, Hue (Fallen North Vietnamese soldier, his personal effects scattered by bodyplundering soldiers) Gelatin silver print 16 1/2 x 11 3/4 ins Contact Press Images © Don McCullin/Contact Press Images English spy novelist John Le Carré considers the effect of existential angst on photographers and viewers: "The dead and nearly dead, like the mad, are free, but their freedom is no use to them. I expect that McCullin has committed suicide through his camera many times. . . . If it is possible as Albert Camus insists that it is, to feel, without romanticism, nostalgia for lost poverty, then perhaps it is also possible to feel nostalgia for physical suffering as a form of human nobility from which our good luck too frequently withholds us." John Le Carré, intro. To Don McCullin, Hearts of Darkness (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981), 19. |
| 49. |  | John Filo 1970 Kent State Shooting (Mary Ann Vecchio leaning over the body of Jeffrey Miller) Gelatin silver print 7 x 8 1/4 in (17.8 x 21 cm) Swann Galleries - New York Courtesy of Swann Galleries (Auction, Oct 22, 2009, Photographs & Photographic Literature, Sale 2191 Lot 260) With a caption label in the negative and newspaper clippings affixed to verso. |
| 50. |  | Unidentified photographer 2004, 6 April Dover Airforce Base - Returning American casualties from the Second Gulf War Digital photograph U.S. Army |
| 51. |  | Unidentified photographer n.d. Personne décédée non identifiée - Valais, Cette femme a été heurtée par un train, à Sierre (Regrouillon), vendredi 22.03.2002, à 03h52. Color print Police Cantonale Vaudoise © Police cantonale vaudoise |
| 52. |  | Joel-Peter Witkin 1990 Head of a Dead Man, Mexico City Gelatin silver print, toned h: 10.8 x w: 13 in / h: 27.4 x w: 33 cm Etherton Gallery Signed, dated and titled verso, pencil |
| 53. |  | Unidentified photographer / artist 1940s (ca) Photomontage of an African American funeral Photomontage 8 x 10 ins La Bonne Vivante The montage consists of 11 distinct images showing a portrait of the deceased, pallbearers with casket, flower bearers, casket opening at gravesite, mourners at the gravesite and the hearse. |
| 54. |  | 1936, 25 July - 12:40 am (death) Green 'Pearson' wallet with 4 photographs. From Sir Henry's pocket, 12.40 am 25 July 1936 (at death). Wallet with 4 photos Wellcome Collection Wellcome Library, London (L0044071, Library reference no.: Archives and Manuscripts WA/HSW/OB/B.27) |
| 55. |  | Unidentified photographer (Iranian) 2009, 20 June Neda Salehi murdered by Basiji Sniper in Tehran on 20th June 2009 Video still, from cellphone YouTube Neda Salehi Agha Soltan was a 26-year-old Iranian philosophy student in Tehran who was senselessly murdered by a sniper during street confrontations between Iranian security forces and opposition Green protesters. The amateur-quality cellphone video that captured her bloody demise was posted online and quickly went viral, making her death a worldwide symbol of what can happen to those who dare to speak out against Iran's strict theocracy. Just as the photographs from Abu Ghraib Prison shamed America, "This is an image that will be burnt into the Iranian psyche," one Iranian analyst said. "It will haunt the regime forever." |