Bernice Abbott

LYRIC THEATRE

1979

Hand-signed & numbered by the artist. Gelatin silver print. Edition: 20/100. Sheet size 9.75 x 8 inches. Image size 7 x 4.75 inches. Custom framed as pictured. Frame size approx ...

Jacques Lowe stamp and various inscriptions on print verso. Sheet size 11 x 13.9 inches. Image size approx 9 x 13 inches. Frame size approx 18.5 x 22.5 inches. Certificate of authen...

Hand signed front lower margin by Andy Warhol. hand signed by Paul Weiss on print verso. Sheet size 15.75 x 19 inches. Frame size approx 28 x 31 inches. Artwork is in excellent cond...

Gelatin silver print. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Image size: 30.75 x 25 in. Sheet size: 40 x 30 in. Frame size: approx. 52 x 39 in. Edition of 25. Artwork is in excellen...

Gelatin silver print. Hand signed and dated on front by the artist. Unknown edition. Certificate of authenticity included. All reasonable offers will be considered.

Hand signed lower right margin by Elliot Erwitt. Image size approx 12 x 17.5 inches. Framed has some random scratches. Frame size approx 24 x 29.5 inches. Artwork is in excellent c...

Rare one of a kind silver gelatin lith print on foma paper of a Cuban man grinding coffee in a tree stump. Contemporary documentary photograph, taken in Santiago De Cuba. Shot on medium format film and printed by hand in a traditional photo darkroom. Cuban coffee...

A camera is a window through which a photographer interacts with the world, and it's up to the operator to decide whether his camera will be a barrier or a mirror between he and his subjects. In the 1970s, Michael Abramson chose the latter path when he brought his camera to Pepper's Hideout on Chicago's South Side. Following in the footsteps of his acknowledged influence Gyula Halász, a Hungarian photographer better known as Brassaï who became the pre-eminent chronicler of the Paris nightlife he loved so much, Abramson initiated himself into the nightlife of Chicago's predominantly black neighbourhoods. He was very much a part of the scene he documented on film, drinking, laughing, and dancing with his subjects into small hours and becoming as much a part of the atmosphere as the locals who frequented the same nightspots he did. - Joe Tangari (Numero Group, 2009) This series won Abramson a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1978 and launched his career as a photojournalist. Eventually the project resulted in a hardbound book, Light: On the South Side, including the Grammy and Mojo nominated album, featuring Chicago blues...

"Abramson comes much closer to recording the sound of these clubs than we would have any right to expect from a photographer." - Nick Hornby (London, 2009), Light On the South Side, ...

January 11, 1967: Top British pop group the Rolling Stones taking a stroll through London's Green Park, they are, from left to right, Mick Jagger, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts, Brian Jo...

January 11, 1967: Top British pop group the Rolling Stones taking a stroll through London's Green Park, from left to right, Mick Jagger, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts, Brian Jones (1942 ...

July 17, 1954: Argentinian racer Juan Manuel Fangio (1911 - 1995) chalks up a win for the Mercedes team at the French Grand Prix in Reims. Original Publication: Picture Post - 7209 -...