The Steiglitz are beautiful, but I only have a very nice book of
them....
Doug
On 6-Jun-10, at 5:17 AM, Chris Jones wrote:
> [why I am such a good photographer]
>
>
> The Steichen (Lot 6 at Sotheby's sale) was not the only platinum
> metals
> print for which a price record was broken: on this occasion Lot 11, a
> palladium print by Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) [d], entitled “Georgia
> O'Keeffe (Hands)”, dating from 1918, realised $ 1.472M – triple its
> estimated sale price. This is a record for a Stieglitz work. Another
> of
> Stieglitz's serial portraits of O'Keeffe, a ‘conventional’
> silver-gelatin print from 1919 (Lot 13), realised $ 1.36M. Although
> Stieglitz began printing this series of portraits in platinum in 1917
> [e], he was soon obliged to turn to palladium and silver papers.
> --
> have chronic fatigue syndrome so may be delayed in reply or brain
> fog weird
>
> just to let you know that's all, Chris Jones.
>
> Blog: http://abdevpoetics.blogspot.com/
>
Douglas Barbour
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