Christie’s, New York, 5 October 1995, lot 335 Page Imageworks, San Francisco, as agent
Exhibited
Object Lessons: Masterworks of Modernist Photography from Three Bay Area Collections, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 7 December 1995 - 10 March 1996 Collected, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, 2 May 2016 - 31 January 2017
Literature
Pier 24 Photography, Collected, p. 102 (this print) Millstein and Lowe, Consuelo Kanaga: An American Photographer, p. 63 Heyman, Seeing Straight: The f.64 Revolution in Photography, pl. 77
Catalogue Essay
The image offered here was likely one of two photographs by Consuelo Kanaga included in the exhibition A Showing of Hands, held at San Francisco’s de Young Museum in 1932. In a society still segregated at that time, Kanaga’s radical photograph treats its subject with sensitivity and respect.
1930 Gelatin silver print. 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 in. (15.9 x 23.5 cm) Signed and titled in pencil on the mount; a typed credit and title label affixed the reverse of the mount.
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $27,500
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