Camera Lucida Photographs Toronto
Notable Sales
01663, US Demonstration Atomic Reactor, 1955
Status: Sold
A vintage gelatin silver image of a US demonstration reactor for the United Nations Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, Geneva, 1955. The unidentified photographer has applied a dramatic modernist composition to what was then a very contemporary and dramatic phenomenon - nuclear power. It is a press print from International News Photos. Acquired by a private collector, Vancouver.
01913, Herbert Gehr, Radio City Music Hall, 1942
Status: Sold
An epic view of the interior of Radio City Music Hall by Hebert Gehr. Gehr is the pseudonym, for his still photography work, of the cinematographer Edmund Bert Gerard. A vintage gelatin silver print from 1942. Acquired by a private collector, Toronto.
00092, Stephen Shore, Spokane, Washington, 1974
Status: Sold
'Lincoln Street and Riverside Drive, Spokane, Washington'. This is a signed, numbered, dated image from the Metropolitan Museum portfolio, printed in 1976 in an edition of 50. While many of these early colour works have faded badly, and recent museum exhibitions have been of larger modern prints, this vintage example retains its original tones to a marked degree. Acquired by a private collector, New York.
00153, Samuel Bourne - 'The Well of Knowledge'
Status: Sold
‘Vishvanatha (Siva) Temple, Well of Knowledge’ Benares, 1865. Image number (twice) on the negative, 1173, unsigned. The original identification was provided by Arthur Ollman, based on Bourne’s numbering system. The exhibition list of ‘The Imperial Gaze - the photographs of Samuel Bourne, Nov. 3 - Dec 30, 2000’ from the Alkazi Collection, shown at Sepia International, Inc., lists as Item 55 negative number 1173A (unillustrated), being a variant of this image where the camera has been moved a few feet, and the foreground column is in sharp focus. Acquired by the Art Gallery of Ontario.