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Children in Humanistic Photography
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1.Ed Kashi
1990
Youth in Tiger's Bay, Belfast, jumping…
Barry Singer Gallery
LL/2884
2.Dave Heath
1958
Hell's Kitchen, NYC 1958 (Young Boy with Finger in Mouth)

Gelatin silver print
9 3/4 x 6 1/2
 
Barry Singer Gallery
LL/2830
3.Martin Elkort
1950-1951
(Girl on Carousel Horse)
[Coney Island]

Gelatin silver print
9/12 x 7 7/16
 
Barry Singer Gallery
LL/2800
4.W. Eugene Smith
1953
Juanita at Soda Fountain

Gelatin silver print
13 1/2 x 8 7/8
 
Barry Singer Gallery
LL/2984
5.Herb Snitzer
1958
Girl in Swing
[Central Park Series]

Gelatin silver print
11 x 7 1/4
 
Barry Singer Gallery
LL/2989
6.Herb Snitzer
1962
(Bottom of Swing)
[Summerhill School, England]

Gelatin silver print
11 15/16 x 9
 
Barry Singer Gallery
LL/2992
7.Herb Snitzer
1960
(Policeman and Boy and Girl)
[New York]

Gelatin silver print
13 x 9 15/16
 
Barry Singer Gallery
LL/2997
8.Marc Riboud
1958
Girl Running on Beach with Figure on Sand, Japan
Barry Singer Gallery
LL/2938
9.Herb Snitzer
1962
(Child Blowing Bubble)
[Summerhill School, England]

Gelatin silver print
9 3/16 x 7 3/4
 
Barry Singer Gallery
LL/2993
10.Rae Russel
1954
(Boy at Bus Window)

Gelatin silver print
13 1/2 x 9 1/8
 
Barry Singer Gallery
LL/2962
11.Rae Russel
1953
Eviction Family, NYC (Girl with Finger in Her Mouth)

Gelatin silver print
11 5/16 x 10 3/8
 
Barry Singer Gallery
LL/2958
12.Rae Russel
1948 (ca)
Street Boys, Henry Street, NYC

Gelatin silver print
8 15/16 x 7 9/16
 
Barry Singer Gallery
LL/2961
13.Rae Russel
1948
Chicago, Black Child in Stairwell

Gelatin silver print
13 7/16 x 10 5/16
 
Barry Singer Gallery
LL/2966
14.Roger Mayne
1958
Footballers, Southam Street, North Kensington, London

Gelatin silver print
16 7/16 x 13
 
Barry Singer Gallery
LL/2911
15.Marc Riboud
1960
Ghana, Beach Kick Boxing
Barry Singer Gallery
LL/2939
16.Marc Riboud
1957
Three Girls, Beijing, China
Barry Singer Gallery
LL/2936
17.Paul Strand
1930 (ca)
Mexico (Boy with Hat on Knee)

Photogravure
Barry Singer Gallery
LL/3019
18.Lou Stoumen
1982
Girl Looks Up at the Statue of Liberty (Across the River from World Trade Center Towers)
Barry Singer Gallery
LL/3013
19.Elfriede Reichelt (Breslau)
1920s
Three little sisters

Photographic print
Private collection of Jan Weijers (Servatius)
LL/47525
20.Theo Frey
1945 (taken, modern print)
Prisoners from KZ Buchenwald come to Switzerland, Camp for internees, Rheinfelden

Gelatin silver print
285 x 271 mm
 
Swiss Foundation for Photography / Fotostiftung Schweiz / Schweizerische Stiftung für die Photographie
© Swiss Foundation for Photography (2007.55.086)
 
LL/28753
21.Seydou Keita
1948-1962 (taken) 1998 (print)
A young "cyclist" proudly wearing a beret

Gelatin silver print
22 1/4 x 15 3/4 in (56.5 x 40 cm)
 
Phillips de Pury - New York
Courtesy of Phillips De Pury - NY (31 Jan 2008, Lot 74)
 
Signed, dated '1998' and annotated in ink in the margin.
 
LL/27363
22.Unidentified photographer
n.d.
Adele Lily Merriman

Gelatin silver print
Private collection of Andrea Cesari
Maternal grandmother of collector Andrea Cesari. Note the flower she's wearing as her father operated a commercial greenhouse.
 
LL/29575
23.Brassaï
1935 (taken) 1940s (print)
Jardin d'Enfant

Gelatin silver print
9 1/2 x 7 ins (24.1 x 17.8 cm)
 
Swann Galleries - New York
Sale 2257 Lot 191
 
With Brassaï's signature, in pencil, a "Rue du Faub" and 2 variant "Faubourg" hand stamps, and the title and date, in pencil, in an unknown hand, on verso.
 
On the accompanying frame backing, labels indicate that this photograph was acquired from the Julie Saul Gallery, New York by Reader's Digest in 1996 and the photograph was exhibited in "A Photographic Treasury: Images of Children by Master Photographers from the Reader's Digest Art Collection."
 
LL/44348
24.Sam McKay
1966, 27 October
Children playing in alleyway on Lavale Street [Norfolk, VA]

Black and white image, scanned from negative
NHRA - Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority
NRHA# 4321
 
LL/44449
25.Mike Disfarmer
1939-1946 (taken)
Young boy, in Leopard Print Cowboy Costume and Hat, Standing

Gelatin silver print
7 x 12 in (image) 14 x 18 in (sheet)
 
Howard Greenberg Gallery
Inventory no: 0046012
 
Edition #2/75. Embossed with Disfarmer Collection blindstamp on print recto. Disfarmer Collection stamp and edition number in pencil on print verso.
 
LL/37941
26.Russell Lee
1938 (ca)
A Sick Farmer's Boy
Private collection of Henri van der Tol
LL/47740
27.Thurston Hopkins
1954
Islington, London

Gelatin silver print
35.1 x 24cm (13 3/4 x 9 1/2in)
 
Bloomsbury Auctions - London
Photographs, 22 May 2012, Lot: 94
 
LL/48252
28.Dorothea Lange
1942
Pledge of Allegiance [San Francisco, California]

Gelatin silver print
13 3/8 x 10 1/16
 
J. Paul Getty Museum
© J. Paul Getty Trust [2000.50.16]
 
LL/6031
29.Helen Levitt
1940
Broken Mirror, NYC

Gelatin silver print
11 x 14
 
Peter Fetterman Gallery
LL/541
30.W. Eugene Smith
1946
The Walk to Paradise Garden, New York (He used his children Patrick and Juanita Croton for this photograph)

Gelatin silver print
12 x 10 1/2
 
Afterimage Gallery
LL/1468
31.Roger Mayne
1958 (ca)
Two Children

Gelatin silver print
11 5/8 x 8 13/16 in
 
Gitterman Gallery
LL/23218
32.Dan Weiner
1948 (taken)
New York

Gelatin silver print
9 5/16 x 6 3/8 ins
 
Howard Greenberg Gallery
Inventory no: 0021678
 
Mounted. Photographer's stamp on mount verso.
 
LL/38045
33.Ernest Withers
1948
Twins at WDIA

Gelatin silver print / Inkjet print
5 x 7 in / 8 x 10 in
 
Decaneas Archive
Courtesy of the Decaneas Archive
 
LL/27567
34.Chim
1948 (taken) 2007 (publication)
An orphaned girl, Tereska, traumatized by her experiences in German concentration camps, makes a troubled attempt to draw a picture of her home, Poland; 1948
[Magnum Founders]

Platinum print, bound into a book
14 x 16 in
 
Verso Limited Editions
This print was included in "Magnum Founders, In Celebration of Sixty Years" (Verso Limited Editions, 2007 www.versoeditions.com)
 
LL/28606
35.Werner Bischof
1947 (taken) 1960 (ca, print)
Hongrie

Gelatin silver print
20.5 x 17.6 cm
 
Millon et Associes
Millon & Associés, Auction, (13 May 2012, Lot: 142)
 
LL/47762
36.Irving Penn
1948 (taken) 1971 (print)
Cuzco Children

Platinum-palladium print
19 1/8 x 19 3/4 in
 
Christie's - New York
Illustration courtesy: Christie's Images Ltd., 2008
 
Auction sale
pre-sale est.: $250,000-$350,000
price realized: $529,000
CHRISTIE'S, "Photographs", April 11, 2008, Lot #454
 
LL/29058
37.Arthur Leipzig
1950
Sleeping Child

Gelatin silver print
10 3/8 x 9 7/8 in (image) 11 1/2 x 11 in (sheet)
 
Howard Greenberg Gallery
Inventory no: 0072717
 
Signed in pencil on print verso.
 
LL/37986
38.Ira Latour
1950 (taken)
Boys with Hoops, Vouvray, France

Gelatin silver print
8 x 10 in
 
Carl Mautz Vintage Photographs
Signed and stamped by the artist on the reverse.
 
LL/28683
39.Grace Robertson
1954
Battersea, London

Gelatin silver print
38 x 27.8cm (15 x 10 7/8in)
 
Bloomsbury Auctions - London
Photographs, 22 May 2012, Lot: 106
 
Grace Robertson, A Sympathetic Eye, 2002, p.49
 
LL/48256
40.Louis Stettner
1947 (taken), 1949 (portfolio)
Aubervilliers
[10 Photographs by Louis Stettner, pl. 9]

Gelatin silver print
Private collection
From the portfolio "10 Photographs by Louis Stettner" Introduction by Brassai with an English Translation. Published by Two Cities Publications (Paris and New York). Limited edition of 250 numbered copies.
 
LL/15436
41.Ira Latour
1953
Santa Cruz, Seville

Gelatin silver print
9 x 8 in
 
Carl Mautz Vintage Photographs
LL/25713
42.Arthur Leipzig
1950 (ca)
Boy and Air-O-Noodle
Private collection of Henri van der Tol
LL/47744
43.Harold Cazneaux
1912
Argyle Cut

Gelatin silver print
23.6 x 27.7
 
National Gallery of Australia (NGA)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (81.248)
 
LL/7137
44.Theo Frey
1945 (taken, later print)
French children for recuperation in Switzerland

Gelatin silver print
177 x 169 mm
 
Swiss Foundation for Photography / Fotostiftung Schweiz / Schweizerische Stiftung für die Photographie
© Swiss Foundation for Photography (2006.50.077)
 
LL/28750
45.Herb Snitzer
1962
(Boy Sprinting by Fireworks)
[Summerhill School, England]

Gelatin silver print
9 1/16 x 12 5/16
 
Barry Singer Gallery
LL/2991
46.Seydou Keita
1952-1955 (taken) 1999 (print)
Twins in European dress

Gelatin silver print
15 1/4 x 21 1/4 in (38.7 x 54 cm)
 
Phillips de Pury - New York
Courtesy of Phillips De Pury - NY (31 Jan 2008, Lot 72)
 
Signed, dated '1999' and annotated in ink in the margin.
 
LL/27361
47.W. Eugene Smith
1958-1959
Untitled (Profile of Girl in Bed)
[Haiti]
8 11/16 x 12 1/2
 
Barry Singer Gallery
LL/2986
48.Robert Doisneau
1964
Le pigeon indiscret [The indiscrete pigeon]

Gelatin silver print
23.8 x 30.3 cm
 
Pierre Bergé & Associés
Courtesy of Pierre Bergé & Associés (Auction, June 16, 2010, Lot: 714)
 
Tirage argentique en noir et blanc, postérieur. Cachet au dos "Doisneau-Rapho".
 
LL/37272
49.George Rodger
1948
Two Bachimibiri Girls, Kigezi Rainforest, Uganda

Gelatin silver print
Barry Singer Gallery
LL/2952
50.Rae Russel
1953
Eviction Family, NYC (Mom Talking on Phone)

Gelatin silver print
8 1/6 x 11 1/2
 
Barry Singer Gallery
LL/2959
51.Rae Russel
1949
Three Kids with Dirty Faces, Henry Street, NYC

Gelatin silver print
10 11/16 x 13 1/8
 
Barry Singer Gallery
LL/2960
52.Lou Stoumen
1940
Inside Head of Statue of Liberty, Children of Public School #34, the Bronx

Gelatin silver print
Barry Singer Gallery
LL/3010
53.Grace Robertson
1948
Frustration, Petticoat Lane, London
Barry Singer Gallery
LL/2945
54.Unidentified photographer / artist
1880-1923 (ca)
Girls skipping at an athletics carnival

Glass plate negative, half plate
Powerhouse Museum
Id: 85/1286-772
 
LL/32738
55.Joe Schwartz
1930s
Slum Child. St. Marks Place, Lower Manhattan, New York
[Folk Photography: Poems I've Never Written]

Gelatin silver print
Provided by the artist - Joe Schwartz
© Joe Schwartz, courtesy of the artist
 
LL/15036
56.William Klein
1955
Gun 2, near the Bowery, NY

Gelatin silver print
9 3/16 x 13 5/8 ins
 
Howard Greenberg Gallery
© William Klein. Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, NYC.
 
Klein recalled that he was "very consciously trying to do the opposite of what Cartier-Bresson was doing. . . . I wanted to be visible in the biggest way possible. My aesthetics was the New York Daily News. I saw the book I wanted to do as a tabloid gone berserk, gross, grainy, over-inked, with a brutal layout, bull-horn headlines. This is what New York deserved and would get."
 
William Klein, in Jane Livingston, The New York School Photographs 1936-1963 (New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1992), 314.
 
LL/33307
57.Elliott Erwitt
1950
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Gelatin silver print
Stephen Bulger Gallery
© Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
 
LL/41873
58.Arthur Leipzig
1950
Chalk Games, New York

Gelatin silver print
16 x 20
 
HackelBury Fine Art Ltd
LL/1598
59.Elliott Erwitt
1955
Colorado, USA

Gelatin silver print
Stephen Bulger Gallery
© Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
 
LL/41865
60.Grace Robertson
1960s
Chiswick, London

Gelatin silver print
23.5 x 34.9cm (9 1/4 x 13 3/4in)
 
Bloomsbury Auctions - London
Photographs, 22 May 2012, Lot: 101
 
This photograph is of the photographer's son, Robert.
 
LL/48254
61.Chris Steele-Perkins
1990
London. St. Thomas's Hospital. Babies at reunion of those mothers who gave birth in 1990
[England, My England]

Black and white image
Provided by the artist - Chris Steele-Perkins
© Chris Steele-Perkins / Magnum Photos (LON4675)
 
This photograph is included in Chris Steele-Perkins England, My England 2009, (Northumbria Press)
 
LL/37891
62.André Kertész
1928
Child Models

Gelatin silver print
Peter Fetterman Gallery
LL/527
63.George Zimbel
1953
Boy or Man

Gelatin silver print
Stephen Bulger Gallery
© George S. Zimbel, 2007
 
LL/2234
64.Ruth Orkin
1947 (taken) 1955 (print)
The Cardplayers, The Family of Man

Silver print
6 1/2 x 9 in (16.5 x 22.8 cm)
 
Swann Galleries - New York
Courtesy of Swann Galleries (Auction Oct 21, 2008, Lot 219)
 
Together, 6 photographs. Silver prints, each measures 6 1/2x9 inches (16.5x22.8 cm.), overall size 20x35 inches (50.8x88.9 cm.), with Orkin's signature on recto and her signature, copyright, sequential numeric notations, date, "Marilyn," and "only sequence in The Family of Man" on verso.
 
The Family of Man, 41. Ruth Orkin was often driven by a passion for travel, as many of her most renowned images were taken in exotic locales like Italy, France, and Israel. But, she was just as likely to snap photographs of daily life from her own front stoop on West 88th Street in New York City.
 
In this work containing 6 photographs, three youngsters are captured playing a timeless game of cards. The whimsical expressions on each of their faces show a youthful na´veté despite the fact that the young blonde in the middle--the group''s ringleader--is clearly in it to win. Orkin sequentially captures the children pondering their next moves while they sneak a glance at their opponents'' hands or engage in petty arguments. The final image shows the pure glee the blonde evinces when she finally wins the round.
 
LL/31272
65.George Tice
1983
Street Corner, Tallinn, Estonia, USSR

Gelatin silver print
8 x 10 / 11 x 14 / 16 x 20
 
Ariel Meyerowitz Gallery
LL/2649
66.Bruno Barbey
1964
Palermo, Sicily (Family on Vespa)
Barry Singer Gallery
LL/2739
67.Tibor Honty
1940
(Girl in Caravan Doorway)
[Circus Caravans]

Gelatin silver print
7 1/4 x 7
 
Barry Singer Gallery
LL/2869
   
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