✨ONLY ONE WEEK LEFT UNTIL XMAS🎄 Here is a highlight from our past auction for you! Lot no. 68 of the 20th WestLicht Photo Auction LEONARD FREED (1929–2006) St. Peter's square, Rome 1958 Archival pigment print Starting price: 1,400 €⠀ Price realised: 2,200 € #WestLichtPhotoAuction #20WestLichtPhotoAuction #leonardfreed
👉Not a very typical snowy christmas photo... but we want to swim against the tide and that's why we have chosen it😁 Have a (hopefully) sunny and not too cold weekend! Lot 169 of the of the 20th WestLicht Photo Auction LUIGI GHIRRI (1943-1992) Untitled, Italy 1973 Vintage chromogenic print Starting price: 2,000 € Price realised: 5,500 € #luigighirri #westlichtphotoauction #20WestLichtPhotoAuction
🇫🇷HIGHLIGHT FROM OUR PAST AUCTION🇫🇷 “To take photographs is to hold one's breath when all faculties converge in the face of fleeing reality. It is at that moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy. To take photographs means to recognize—simultaneously and within a fraction of a second—both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis.” 👁️❤️ – Henri Cartier-Bresson Lot no. 55 of the 20th WestLicht Photo Auction HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON (1908–2004) Marseilles, France, 1932 Gelatin silver print Starting price: 4,000 €⠀ Price realised: 8,000 € #WestLichtPhotoAuction #20WestLichtPhotoAuction #henricartierbresson
✨HIGHLIGHT FROM OUR PAST AUCTION✨ While studying with Lisette Model in the late 1950s, the New Yorker Diane Arbus (1923–71) acquired the techniques which were ultimately to define her work. By recording human flaws and masquerades, her portraits point out the rifts and margins of society. They stage and accentuate the strangeness within the familiar and the humdrum within the grotesque. Now considered icons of photographic history, Arbus’ portraits of human beings insist on visualizing the difference which she herself so befittingly called the “gap between intention and effect” of those portrayed. To capture this complex field of tension between self-perception, wishful images and performance within precise pictures – that can be considered the core competence of an artist who may have been an empathetic accomplice of her subjects, but who never shied away from the unmasking effect of photography. Lot no. 109 of the 20th WestLicht Photo Auction DIANE ARBUS (1923–1971) 'Loser at a Diaper party', New Jersey, 1967 Gelatin silver print, printed by Neil Selkirk Starting price: 8,000 €⠀ Price realised: 10,000 € #WestLichtPhotoAuction #20WestLichtPhotoAuction #dianearbus
✨HIGHLIGHT FROM OUR PAST AUCTION✨ Jaromír Funke was a founder of the Czech Society of Photography (1924) whose mission was to create photography that would fulfill new social functions. In his work Funke managed to combine some of the leading trends in modernist European photography, uniting constructivism and functionalism with surrealism and social commentary, with traditional Czech aesthetics. His interest in modernist ideas led him to make clearly focused studies of simple objects. Lot no. 11 of the 20th WestLicht Photo Auction JAROMÍR FUNKE (1896–1945) Still life with glass bottle, 1924 Vintage silver print Starting price: 4,000 €⠀ Price realised: 8,500 € #WestLichtPhotoAuction #20WestLichtPhotoAuction #jaromirfunke
Last gems from the treasury 💎✨ Those few lots that are still available for sale after the auction you'll find in our 🔹Post Sale Offer🔹 ⏩check the link in bio Masterpieces by the likes of #NobuyoshiAraki, #AugustSander, #BertStern, #MarcRiboud & some others All the prints are available for their starting price plus Buyer's Premium Credits: Lot 28, #EdouardBoubat, 'Femme aux fleurs', Portugal 1958 Lot 121, #PhilippeHalsman, #MarilynMonroe jumping, 1952 Lot 171, #JoelMeyerowitz, Porch, Provincetown, 1977 Lot 178, #WolfgangWesener, #LouReed, Hard Rock Cafe, New York 1986 Lot 179, #PatrickDemarchelier, #CameronDiaz & #MattDillon, 1988 #20WestLichtPhotoAuction #WestLichtPhotoAuction
#phototechneejournal Credit @westlicht_photo_auction - Thank you all for coming, watching online and taking part at our 20th WestLicht Photo Auction! 👏👏👏 🔝🔝🔝Here are some of our highlights from Saturday. 🔗📖You can check the results of the whole auction on our website (link in bio) ❗🔊The next auction will take place in Spring 2020. Stay tuned! #20WestLichtPhotoAuction #WestLichtPhotoAuction #AuctionResults #RudolfKoppitz #AndreKertesz #RobertCapa
Thank you all for coming, watching online and taking part at our 20th WestLicht Photo Auction! 👏👏👏 🔝🔝🔝Here are some of our highlights from Saturday. 🔗📖You can check the results of the whole auction on our website (link in bio) ❗🔊The next auction will take place in Spring 2020. Stay tuned! #20WestLichtPhotoAuction #WestLichtPhotoAuction #AuctionResults #RudolfKoppitz #AndreKertesz #RobertCapa
⏱🛎🔨Ladies & Gentlemen, we are starting in a bit Pass by OstLicht Gallery (Absberggasse 27) if you are in Vienna and take part in our bidding or just enjoy the spectacle or watch and bid online through @liveautioneers wherever you are! #20WestLichtPhotoAuction #WestLichtPhotoAuction
💥🧨📸Last hours to check these photographic gems on the walls of @ostlichtvienna as they all will go under hummer at 4 pm CET today! Big personalities in front of and behind the camera as well as significant moments in recent history - don't miss😉 The Gallery is open for the Preview from 2 pm. #20WestLichtPhotoAuction #WestLichtPhotoAuction
Are you ready? 3⃣-2⃣-1⃣ 🔜Already tomorrow our 20th WestLicht Photo Auction will take place! (📍@ostlichtvienna at 🕓4 pm CET) 👌But nor worries! You have plenty of time to place your bids for your favourite lots! You can bid: ▪ 💻online through @liveauctioneers or @invaluableofficial ▪ 📞by phone ▪ ✍leave your written bids on our website in advance ▪ 🙋♀🙋♂or come to the room for live bidding ❓Do you have any questions about our lots or how to bid - contact us here 😉 #20WestLichtPhotoAuction #WestLichtPhotoAuction
🏜🏚 »Written in the West« is a series of photographs shot by Wim Wenders with his medium format Makina Plaubel 6x7 camera during a road trip through Southwest America: Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and California. German filmmaker went there in the late 1983 looking for the subjects and locations for his iconic film »Paris, Texas« (1984). Wenders was captivated by unique, saturated light of wild, deserted landscapes of American West: empty shops, cafes and roads seem to be inhabited by signage and advertisement instead of humans. This great stillness is the essence of Wenders’ series, which was not taken by photographer as locations, but rather to sharpen his idea and conception of what American West is. 🛎Lot no. 170 of our upcoming auction WIM WENDERS, ‘Now showing, Lowell, Arizona’ (from ‘Written in the West’), 1983 Dye transfer print, printed in 1989, 33.5 x 42 cm Starting price: 2,400 € #Sieff #Paris #VintagePrint #20WestLichtPhotoAuction #WestLichtPhotoAuction
👾🌕The Epic Journey of Apollo 11, limited edition book in original case with signed and numbered framed photo of Buzz Aldrin, texts by Norman Mailer, Colum McCann, and Buzz Aldrin, published for the fortieth anniversary of the landmark Apollo 11 mission, this amazing 348-page, numbered, edition no. 1716/1969, hardcover book is housed in a custom-molded white resin box with a convex plexiglas window; 15.5 x 18.5 in, with a stunning 12.7 x 15.7 in archival-quality color photograph of the famous "visor" photo of Aldrin on the moon in a 14.5 x 17.5 in plexiglass frame, book is still in original shrink wrap, the print is pristine, the custom case is excellent 🛎Lot no. 92 of our upcoming auction BUZZ ALDRIN, Moonfire, Benedikt Taschen Verlag, Cologne 2009 Starting price: 2,400 € #BuzzAldrin #Moonfire #Apollo11 #Photobook #20WestLichtPhotoAuction #WestLichtPhotoAuction
All finishing touches are put. Every image is hanged. The lights are on💧✨👌 All 183 lots of our upcoming auction are available for preview at @ostlichtvienna, daily from 2 to 6 pm and by appointment. Pass by! 🛎Lot no. 133 of our upcoming auction ABE FRAJNDLICH, Roy Lichtenstein, New York 1985 C-print, printed in 2000, 30.7 x 25.5 cm Starting price: 900 € #AbeFrajndlich #RoyLichtenstein #NewYork #CPrint #20WestLichtPhotoAuction #WestLichtPhotoAuction
✨PHOTO OT THE WEEK✨ Four years after the Cuban revolution in 1959, Magnum sent René Burri to Cuba to take photographs of Ernesto »Che« Guevara during an interview for the widely circulated American magazine Look. As President of the National Bank and Minister of Industry, Che Guevara was the second most powerful man in Cuba and had personally invited the American star journalist Laura Bergquist to the Sugar Island so that she could form her own opinion about the success of the revolution. In retrospect, Burri would describe the atmosphere of the conversation as »tense«. Right at the start, Che denied Burri his request to open the blinds to improve the lighting situation in the room. Furthermore, he would not deign to look at Burri during the three-hour interview, during which the photographer exposed six rolls of film. »I could expose all of his characteristics: charm, power of persuasion and anger. But he did not look into the camera one single time.« Lot 66 of the upcoming WestLicht Photo Auction RENÉ BURRI (1933–2014) ›Che Guevara y su tabaco‹, Cuba 1963 Gelatin silver print, printed in 2007 38×25,4 cm (15×10 in) Signed, annotated and dated by the photographer in pencil on the reverse Starting price: 2,800 € On Saturday the 20th WestLicht Photo Auction (@westlicht_photo_auction) will take place at 4 pm in OstLicht. We're looking forward to welcoming you! All lots of the auction can be viewed until 12.10. (daily 2pm-6pm). Free entry! #ostlichtvienna #ostlicht #picoftheday #photooftheweek #reneburri #cheguevara #cuba #magnumphotos #historicphotography #photography #blackandwhitephotography #celebrities #history #20westlichtphotoauction
✨PERSONAL SELECTION - part 2✨ On Saturday the 20th WestLicht Photo Auction (@westlicht_photo_auction) will take place at 4 pm in OstLicht - Gallery für Photography (@ostlichtvienna, Absberggasse 27, 1100 Vienna) and photo expert Anna Zimm has put together a selection of her 10 favourite lots for us. Thanks a lot, dear Anna (@anna_s_pic_k_s)! All lots of the auction can be viewed until 12.10. (daily 2pm-6pm). Free entry! 1) Lot 98, Astrid Kirchherr, Paul McCartney, Deutschland 1960, Gelatin silver print, Starting price: 900 € 2) Lot 123 Nicolas Tikhomiroff, Orson Welles, Anthony Perkins und Romy Schneider, The Trial, Paris 1961, Gelatin silver print, Starting price: 1,600 € 3) Lot 80, Elliott Erwitt, California, USA 1955, Gelatin silver print, Starting price: 2,800 € 4) Lot 57, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Valencia, Spain 1933, Gelatin silver print, Starting price: 4,500 € 5) Lot 96, Thomas Hoepker, Spain, 1966, Vintage silver print, Starting price: 1,200 € #astridkirchherr #paulmccartney #elliotterwitt #henricartierbresson #thomashoepker #nicholastikhomiroff #20WestLichtPhotoAuction #WestLichtPhotoAuction #photoauction #auction #collect #collectingart #photoauction #collectingphotography #vintagephotography #blackandwhitephotography #fashionphotography #portraitphotography #contemporaryphotography #celebrityphotography
✨PERSONAL SELECTION - part 1✨ On Saturday the 20th WestLicht Photo Auction (@westlicht_photo_auction) will take place at 4 pm in OstLicht - Gallery für Photography (@ostlichtvienna, Absberggasse 27, 1100 Vienna) and photo expert Anna Zimm has put together a selection of her 10 favourite lots for us. Thanks a lot, dear Anna (@anna_s_pic_k_s)! All lots of the auction can be viewed until 12.10. (daily 2pm-6pm). Free entry! 1) Lot 8, Rudolf Koppitz, Nude study with child, c. 1928, Gelatin silver print, Starting price: 2,000 € 2) Lot 81, Louis Faurer, Men in front of movie cinema, New York, c.1948, Gelatin silver print, Starting price: 1,800 € 3) Lot 152, Jock Sturges, >Fanny, Montalivet< France 1995, Gelatin silver print, Starting price: 1,000 € 4) Lot 75, David Seymour, Prostitute near the partially destroyed Krupp factory, Vintage silver print, Starting price: 2,600 € 5) Lot 18, Lotte Jacobi, Lotte Lenya, Berlin 1928, Gelatin silver print, Starting price: 2,400 € #rudolfkoppitz #louisfaurer #davidseymour #lottejacobi #20WestLichtPhotoAuction #WestLichtPhotoAuction #photoauction #auction #collect #collectingart #photoauction #collectingphotography #vintagephotography #blackandwhitephotography #fashionphotography #portraitphotography #contemporaryphotography #celebrityphotography #photography
"I turned around, and there he was, standing on the bottom of the pool,” recalled the photographer #FlipSchulke. “I mean, that's very hard to do, and he's in a perfect boxing pose. So I swam over real quick and I got about six pictures of him. He was holding his breath all this time and not making any movement.” 💦🧨🥊 The photographic series of 19-year-old boxer, known at the time as #CassiusClay, are probably one of the most impressive pictures of a sportsmen in action. 🛎Lot no. 105 of our upcoming auction FLIP SCHULKE, Muhammad Ali boxing underwater, Miami 1961 Gelatin silver print, printed in the 1990s, 20.3 x 31.8 cm Starting price: 1,600 € #Schulke #MuhammadAli #Ali #20WestLichtPhotoAuction #WestLichtPhotoAuction
»I could expose all of his characteristics: charm, power of persuasion and anger. But he did not look into the camera one single time.« 😑🙅♂📸 Four years after the #CubanRevolution in 1959, Magnum sent #RenéBurri to #Cuba to take photographs of Ernesto »Che« Guevara during an interview for the widely circulated American #MagazineLook. As President of the National Bank and Minister of Industry, #CheGuevara was the second most powerful man in Cuba and had personally invited the American star journalist Laura Bergquist to the Sugar Island so that she could form her own opinion about the success of the revolution. In retrospect, Burri would describe the atmosphere of the conversation as »tense«. Right at the start, Che denied Burri his request to open the blinds to improve the lighting situation in the room. Furthermore, he would not deign to look at Burri during the three-hour interview, during which the photographer exposed six rolls of film. 🛎Lot no. 66 of our upcoming auction RENÉ BURRI, ‘Che Guevara y su tabaco’, Cuba 1963 Gelatin silver print, printed in 2007, 38 x 25.4 cm Starting price: 2,800 € #Burri #Paris #ErnestoCheGuevara #Che #MagnumPhotos #20WestLichtPhotoAuction #WestLichtPhotoAuction
What an encounter! 👨🎨🦏 Just in a week our 💥20th WestLicht Photo Auction💥 will take place ❗📍@ostlichtvienna (Absberggasse 27, 1100 Vienna) at 🕓4 pm and we'll be delighted to meet you all either in the room🙋♀🙋♂ or virtually on the phone, online or from your absent bids made in advance📞💻✍ 🛎Lot no. 132 of our upcoming auction PHILIPPE HALSMAN, Salvador Dalí with Rhinoceros Head, New York 1956 Gelatin silver print, printed in 1981, 25.5 x 32.8 cm Starting price: 1,400 € #PhilippeHalsman #SalvadorDali #20WestLichtPhotoAuction #WestLichtPhotoAuction
We bet, it was a Friday night dance! 💃🏻🕺🏻💃🏻 And what are you betting on? ❗Our auction will take place already next Saturday, October 12, at 4 pm (CET), @ostlichtvienna ✍📞💻🙋♂🙋♀We accept written, telephone & online bids and of course there will be bidding in the room. Check our website or write us if your have question about how you can take part in our auction and place a bid on this gem by #WillyRonis 😉💎✨ 🛎Lot no. 31 of our upcoming auction WILLY RONIS, ‚Chez Maxe‘, 1947 Gelatin silver print, printed in the 1980s, 29.8 x 23.2 cm Starting price: 1,400 € #Ronis #20WestLichtPhotoAuction #WestLichtPhotoAuction
"As a fashion photographer who uses the recording medium for his productions, the photographer must live, think and feel in his time. Fashion photographs are always interpretations and stagings. They reflect and visualize the zeitgeist of the present and anticipate the spirit of tomorrow. They offer projection screens for identification, but also for dreams, wishes and desires. And yet fashion photographs often say more about a time than documentary photographs pretending to have depicted reality". F.C. Gundlach 🚲✨🖤 Born in 1926 in Heinebach, #Gundlach got his first camera, an Agfa-Box, in 1938. After his release from an American POW camp, he studied photography in Kassel between 1946 and 1949. His first freelance publications were theatre and film reports for different magazines like 'Stern', 'Quick', and 'Revue'. In 1953 he began to specialize in fashion photography in a journalistic style for the Hamburg-based magazine 'Film und Frau'. During that time, he documented the fashion of Berlin designers, Paris haute couture, as well as portraits and fashion shots of international film stars. 🛎Lot no. 73 of our upcoming auction F. C. GUNDLACH, Judy Dent, Kreuzberg, Berlin 1962 Gelatin silver print, printed in 1988, 40.3 x 27.8 cm Starting price: 1,400 € #Gundlach #Berlin #Kreuzberg #20WestLichtPhotoAuction #WestLichtPhotoAuction
👀PHOTO AUCTION PREVIEW @ostlichtvienna!👀 02.10.-12.10.2019 & by appointment OstLicht. Gallery for photography Daily 2–6 pm⠀ Absberggasse 27 1100, Vienna FREE ENTRY!⠀ 🔜✨SAVE THE DATE!⠀ 20th WestLicht Photo Auction, powered by our friends from @westlicht_photo_auction and featured by @ostlichtvienna ➡️FOR THE FIRST TIME at OSTLICHT! SATURDAY, 12.10.2019 / 4pm ⠀ Lot 122 of the upcoming auction: INGE MORATH (1923 –2002) Sevilla, 1987 Vintage silver print 21,7 × 33,5 cm (8.5 × 13.2 in) Signed and annotated by the photographer in pencil on the reverse Starting price: 2,400 € #westlichtvienna #westlichtphotoauction #20WestLichtPhotoAuction #ingemorath #ostlichtvienna⠀ #photoauction #auction #artauction #collect #collectingart #artcollecting #collectingphotography #contemporaryphotography #photography #photobooks #sevilla #igersvienna #igersaustria #blackandwhitephotography #magnumphotos⠀
🔬🧐To have a look at the original works? EASY!👌 From today on all the lots of our upcoming 20th WestLicht Photo Auction are on view @ostlichtvienna 🔎WHAT: more than 180 auction lots, from historical prints of the 19th century to the fabulous contemporary works & photobooks 📍WHERE: OstLicht Gallery, Absberggasse 27, 1100 Vienna 🕒WHEN: daily from 2 to 6 pm & by appointment #AuctionPreview #20WestLichtPhotoAuction #WestLichtPhotoAuction
The feeling of solitude and isolation combined with the respect and humanity that these photographs express transcends mere documentation and makes them the most powerful of the entire series. 🎪🤹♀🎭 Soon after joining the Magnum Agency, #BruceDavidson produced one of his most significant series 'The Dwarf', 1958. Sam Holmes, the picture librarian in Magnum NY office suggested to visit #ClydeBeattyCircus in #NewJersey, one of the most important in the United States and which featured some of the great names in the history of the American circus. Rather than focusing on the striking appearance or daring acts of its stars, Davidson directed his gaze towards the everyday activities of the performers and circus workers outside the big top. In particular he focused on the life of #JimmyArmstrong, a dwarf and clown, a tireless performer, a man of all parts and one who never failed to amuse children with his costumes and jokes. Davidson gradually entered into Armstrong’s world, photographing his various activities, either performing or undertaking the numerous tasks he was assigned within the circus routine, but also when he ceased to be Little Man and once again became Jimmy. Davidson travelled with the troupe for some weeks with the result that he established a long-lasting friendship with Jimmy. From these early series onwards Davidson’s work reveals his original manner of approaching a subject, as well as the presence of a commitment that differentiates his work from the conventions of photo-reportage but which clearly brings it close to that of #WEugeneSmith in his heroic intention to establish a standard of coherence, intensity and personal responsibility in his photographs. 🛎BRUCE DAVIDSON, ‘The Dwarf, Palisades Amusement Park’, New Jersey 1958 Vintage silver print, 34.9 x 23 cm Starting price: 2,600 € #Davidson #MagnumPhotos #VintagePrint #20WestLichtPhotoAuction #WestLichtPhotoAuction
‘Cartier-Bresson’s visceral intuition, the Surrealist principle of dislocation, and the instantaneity of the #Leica, have come together to transform the ordinary incident into an image of rapture’ #PeterGalassi 🕊📸 Working with a small hand-held Leica camera, Cartier-Bresson produced especially in the 1930s a body of images notable for their complexity. In this image Cartier-Bresson’s genius is evident especially in what he chose to leave outside the frame of the picture. There is no explanation present in the picture for the young boy’s outstretched arms and ecstatic expression. The child is bending back, but as if stabbed. In fact, the boy is awaiting the descent of a ball that has just been thrown in the air. The present print is in beautiful condition and comes originally from the private collection of James A. Fox, who worked as an editor for Magnum for more than 30 years. 🛎Lot no. 57 of our upcoming auction HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON, Valencia, Spain 1933 Gelatin silver print, printed in the 1960s, exhibition print, 32.7 x 49 cm Starting price: 4,500 € #HenriCartierBresson #CartierBresson #MagnumPhotos #20WestLichtPhotoAuction #WestLichtPhotoAuction
This intimate photo of #RobertFrank’s family, picturing his young wife Mary and their daughter Andrea is part of the book “The Lines of My Hand”. It was originally published by Yugensha in Tokyo in 1972 and is structured chronologically and presents selections from every stage of Frank’s work until 1972—from early photos in Switzerland in 1945–46, to images of his travels in Peru, Paris, Valencia, London and Wales, and to contact sheets from his 1955–56 journey through the US that resulted in “The Americans” and made him famous. Robert Frank, one of the key figures in American post war art, has passed away at the age of 94 just few weeks ago on September 9. . . 🛎Lot no. 34 of our upcoming auction ROBERT FRANK (1924-2019) Mary and Andrea, from (‘The Lines of my Hand’), Southampton 1954 Gelatin silver print, printed in the 1960s, 20.2 x 29.7 cm Starting price: 3,000 € #TheLinesOfMyHand #20WestLichtPhotoAuction #WestLichtPhotoAuction
This portrait shows #RogerFenton dressed in a traditional #Zouave costume, holding a rifle with both hands and with a cigar in his mouth. There is a bottle and a tankard on the table beside him to the left and a plain cloth backdrop draped behind. It was arranged by Fenton himself but photographed by his assistant Marcus Sparling. Zuave regiments from #Algeria served with the French army during the #CrimeanWar, and had a distinctive North African uniform. Fenton photographed Zouaves on several occasions during his time in the #Crimea, as well as posing for this series of self-portraits. Using glass plate negatives and the wet collodion process, he captured striking images during the war, mainly in springtime, when the light was strong. The lack of blurring in most of his images, even through exposure times were three and twenty seconds, shows his technical mastery. His photographs were published by Agnew & Sons and sold by subscription in several portfolios between 1855 and 1856. The present print is in very good condition and shows a high degree of contrast 🛎Lot no. 1 of our upcoming auction ROGER FENTON, Self-portrait in Zouave uniform, 1855 Salt paper print from wet collodion negativa, mounted on original paper page, 20.7 x 16.3 cm Starting price: 6,000 € #Felton #SaltPaperPrint #20WestLichtPhotoAuction #WestLichtPhotoAuction
'Everything we are is at every moment alive in us' Arthur Miller 🛎Lot no. 48 of our upcoming auction DENNIS STOCK, Arthur Miller & Inge Morath, USA c. 1961 Vintage gelatin silver print, 19 x 25.2 cm Starting price: 1,400 € #DennisStock #ArthurMiller #IngeMorath #VintagePrint #20WestLichtPhotoAuction #WestLichtPhotoAuction
💭🖤 'And I was in love with the girl who is my wife; I think a series of photographs should be compared with a novel or even a poem rather than a painting; let us tell something!' #RenéGroebli The image, present as a beautiful large format platinum print, is part of the series #TheEyeOfLove, in which Groebli photographs his newly wed wife Rita in 1952. He documents their #Paris honeymoon. Most of the photographs were taken in a small, simple hotel room in #Montparnasse. A young woman seen through the eyes of her adoring young husband. 🛎Lot no. 90 of our upcoming auction RENÉ GROEBLI, 'Das Auge der Liebe' (The eye of Love), 1952 Platinum print, printed in the 2000s, 4.1 x 35.9 cm Starting price: 2,800 € #Groebli #DerAugeDerLiebe #PlatinumPrint #20WestLichtPhotoAuction #WestLichtPhotoAuction
“For me it is not a detachment to take a picture. It's a way of touching somebody—it's a caress. I think that you can actually give people access to their own soul.” Always deeply personal and candid, #NanGoldin’s intimate images act as a visual autobiography documenting herself and those closest to her, especially in the #LGBTQ community and the heroin-addicted subculture. The artist often captured herself and her friends at their most vulnerable moments, as seen in this self-portrait. 🛎Lot no. 164 of our upcoming auction NAN GOLDIN, 'Nan at the hospital after battering', Berlin 1984 Cibachrome, printed in the 1980s, 40.5 x 60 cm Starting price: 3,400 € #Goldin #Berlin #20WestLichtPhotoAuction #WestLichtPhotoAuction
Between 1953 and 1994 the French photographer #JeanloupSieff was working on his series #Danse: focusing primarily on dancers who have performed with the Paris Opera Ballet, he has payed homage to the art as revealed in dancers' bodies and managed to captured both the fleeting gestures of individual dancers and the timeless world of their profession 🕊 🎭 🛎Lot no. 87 of our upcoming auction JEANLOUP SIEFF, Claire Motte (from the series 'Danse'), Paris 1960 Vintage gelatin silver print, 24.1 x 35.9 cm Starting price: 1,600 € #Sieff #ClaireMotte #VintagePrint #Paris #20WestLichtPhotoAuction #WestLichtPhotoAuction
A smoggy postcard from NY 🖤🏙 #ElliottErwitt took this iconic image of #NewYork in 1955, capturing the Empire State Building viewed from the RCA Building, Rockefeller Center, on a misty or perhaps smoggy day, with a fashionably dressed young woman silhouetted against the scrim of atmosphere. 🛎Lot no. 79 of our upcoming auction ELLIOTT ERWITT, Empire State Building, New York, 1955 Gelatin silver print, printed in the 1990s Starting price: 2,600 € #Erwitt #EmpireStateBuilding #NewYorkCity #MagnumPhotos #20WestLichtPhotoAuction #WestLichtPhotoAuction
“The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.” #HenriCartierBresson He first traveled to #India in December 1947, taking the long journey by sea from #England. Upon arriving, he encountered a newly independent nation whose people were experiencing mounting tensions due to the religiously based partition of India and #Pakistan. Amidst this conflict, Cartier-Bresson captured of his best known images, #Srinagar, #Kashmir, 1948, which depicts Muslim women praying on #HariParbal Hill, with the rising sun illuminating the #Himalayas. Over the course of the next 40 years, Cartier-Bresson continued to return to India, traveling their six times through 1987 Lot no. 56 of our upcoming auction: HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON, Srinagar, Kashmir, 1948 Gelatin silver print, printed in 1976 Starting price: 3,000 € #CartierBresson #MagnumPhotos #20WestLichtPhotoAuction #WestLichtPhotoAuction
"Brassaï is a living eye" 👁📸 That's what #HenryMiller wrote of the Hungarian-born artist #Brassaï who adopted #Paris after World War I and became one of its most celebrated photographers. Originally a painter before he moved on to writing, sculpture, cinema and, most famously, photography, Brassaï was a member of Paris's cultural elite, counting #Miller, #Picasso, #Sartre, #Camus, and #Cocteau, among his friends. Camera in hand, he scoured the streets and bars of Paris, unabashedly capturing the city's inhabitants in their natural habitats, often at night. Brassaï captured the essence of the city in his photographs, published as his first collection in the 1933 book entitled 'Paris de nuit'. Lot no. 39 of our upcoming auction BRASSAÏ, 'Feu d'artifice', Tour Eiffel, Paris 1944 Vintage gelatin silver print Starting price: 2,400 € #Brassai #GyulaHalász #VintagePrint #20WestLichtPhotoAuction #WestLichtPhotoAuction #FeuDArtifice #TourEiffel #ParisDeNuit
The discovery of #VivianMaier’s photographs hit the photo world like a bomb in 2009 💣💣💣 The story of the hitherto completely unknown photographer, who had made a living as a nanny throughout her lifetime and whose archive had been acquired rather incidentally by a young collector at a foreclosure sale, captured the public’s imagination well beyond the traditional photo audiences. Vivian Maier posthumously became a star almost overnight, ranked among the likes of #HenriCartierBresson, #RobertFrank, #LeeFriedlander or #DianeArbus. Many of her pictures taken in the streets of #NewYorkCity and #Chicago since the 1950s feel like instant classics. With her exquisite eye for the moment and a sublime sense of composition, Maier firmly claims her place in the traditionally male-dominated pantheon of street photography. Lot no. 83 of our upcoming auction VIVIAN MAIER, New York, 1954 Gelatin silver print, printed in the 2010s Starting price: 2,600 € #20WestLichtPhotoAuction #WestLichtPhotoAuction
An encounter of two Lottes👯♀ One outstanding woman - in front of the camera and another - behind: #LotteJacobi, a German-American photographer, most famous for her photographic portraits, which act as a "chronicle of an era". In 1928 in Berlin she took this portrait of #LotteLenya, an Austrian-American singer, diseuse and actress, best remembered for her performances of the songs of #KurtWeill, her first husband, and her role in #JamesBond movie "From Russia with Love" Lot no. 18 of the upcoming auction: LOTTE JACOBI, Lotte Lenya, Berlin 1928 Gelatin silver print, printed in the 1960s, carte postale 8 x 10 cm Starting price: 2,400 € #LotteJacobi #20WestLichtPhotoAuction #WestLichtPhotoAuction
Just a beret, a monocle, and loose pants🕺🏻 This is how one of the co-founders of the Berlin #Dada Movement and probably one of its most provocative and dazzling actors #RaoulHausmann performed for the camera of #AugustSander in 1929. Lot no. 21 of our upcoming auction AUGUST SANDER, Raoul Hausmann as Dancer, 1929 Gelatin silver print, printed in 1998, stamped 24,7 x 17,4 cm Starting price: 2.000 € #20WestLichtPhotoAuction #Sander #Hausmann #PeopleOfTheTwentiethCentury #MenschenDes20Jahrhunderts
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We've been waiting & FINALLY💥 More than 180 lots with outstanding photographic prints and photobooks, from vintage 19th-century gems to exceptional contemporary works 📸🔎💎👌 All in our new catalogue for the upcoming 20th WestLicht Photo Auction 🔜🔜🔜 12 October 2019, 4pm. ❗📍NEW LOCATION: the preview and the auction will take place at @ostlichtvienna (Absberggasse 27, 1100 Vienna) 👆🔗Tap our #LinkInBio to look through an online catalogue, place your bids or preorder a printed version of the catalogue. 🔲On the cover - lot 147 of our upcoming auction: EIKOH HOSOE, 'Man and Woman' #33, 1960 Gelatin silver print, printed in the 1990s 15 x 23,3 cm Starting price: 1.800 € #EikohHosoe #JapanesePhotography #WestLichtPhotoAuction #20WestLichtPhotoAuction
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