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David Robbins, Artist's books and ephemera

David Robbins Artist's books and ephemera bound printed paper, coins, printed paper Complete Lot Details The Dr. Frankenstein Option David Robbins, Edition Forum, Stadtpark, Graz, 1993. Postcard David Robbins, 1993. Signed, dated and numbered. This work is number 6 from the edition of 12. Foundation Papers: From the Archives of The Institute for Advanced Comedic Behavior David Robbins, Feature / Jay Gorney Modern Art / Galerie Xavier Hufkens, New York / New York / Brussels, 1992. David Robbins: The Institute of Advanced Comedic Behavior: Construction Estimates David Robbins, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, 1992. Convocation (for The Ice Cream Social) envelope David Robbins. Prose and Cons: Comic Structure David Robbins, 1992. Signed, dated, numbered and inscribed. This work is number 14 from the edition of 18. This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

David Robbins, Artist's books, four

David Robbins Artist's books, four 1988-93 bound printed paper Complete Lot Details David Robbins: The Institute of Advanced Comedic Behavior: Construction Estimates David Robbins, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, 1992. Foundation Papers: From the Archives of The Institute for Advanced Comedic Behavior David Robbins, Feature / Jay Gorney Modern Art / Galerie Xavier Hufkens, New York / New York / Brussels, 1992. The Camera Believes Everything David Robbins, Edition Patricia Schwarz, Stuttgart, 1988. Text is in English and German. The Dr. Frankenstein Option David Robbins, Edition Forum Stadtpark, Graz, 1993. Text is in English and German. This work will ship from Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey. condition: Minor yellowing to Jay Gorney fold-out; three other titles are clean with small points of wear to exteriors. Fine condition overall.

DAVID ROBBINS Photo League 1949

DAVID ROBBINS, Bus NY, c. 1949, 8.5x12.875" Gelatin silver print, Printed c. 1949, Photographer's credit stamp on print verso; Editorial Auditing Dept stamp dated Feb 19 1949; inscribed in red pencil: $20. David Robbins's work is very rare compared to other Photo League photographers. The Photo League's origins can be traced back to a project of the Workers International Relief (WIR), a communist association based in Berlin. In 1930 the WIR established the Workers Camera League in New York City, which soon came to be known as the Film and Photo League. The new organization served to record workers’ everyday lives and to fight with the help of a camera for proletariat rights, adopting the best practices of progressive Soviet photographers. As time passed, the Film and Photo League became known as a cooperative of photographers and documentary film makers. In 1934, these two groups began having differences of opinion over social and production interests, and by 1936 they had split into separate organizations. Paul Strand and Ralph Steiner founded the Frontier Films Company, and at the same time Strand together with Berenice Abbott created the Photo League cooperative. The main goal of the Photo League was to "put the camera back into the hands of honest photographers who ... use it to photograph America." In New York in the middle of the 1930s the question of adherence to the ideas of the proletarian revolution was not so acute as in the USSR, and the Photo League did not espouse a particular visual style but instead concentrated on "integrating formal elements of design and visual aesthetics with the powerful and sympathetic evidence of the human condition." The League organized master classes led by Sid Grossman, Walter Rosenblum, and LIFE editor Eliot Elisofon. All those wishing to learn more about modern photography attended free lectures by such photographers as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Roy Stryker, Ansel Adams, Edward and Brett Weston, Robert Capa, and others. The Photo League held six exhibitions annually; each was accompanied by an issue of Photo Notes (1938-1948). In December 1947, the Photo League was formally declared a subversive and placed on a U.S. Department of Justice blacklist of subversive organizations by Attorney General Tom C. Clark. Following this announcement, the Photo League appeared on the Attorney General’s List of Subversive Organizations, published on March 20, 1948, in the Federal Register. At first the League fought back and mounted an impressive This Is the Photo League exhibition in 1948, but after its member and long-time FBI informer Angela Calomiris had testified in May 1949 that the League was a front organization for the Communist Party, the Photo League was finished. Recruitment dried up and old members left, including one of its founders and former president, Paul Strand, as well as Louis Stettner. The League disbanded in 1951. CREDIT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_League https://www.jewish-museum.ru/en/exhibitions/new-york-s-photo-league/

DAVID ROBBINS - Talent, 1986-87

DAVID ROBBINS - Talent, 1986-87

David ROBBINS (né en 1957) SANS TITRE, 1990 Photographie couleur

David ROBBINS (né en 1957) SANS TITRE, 1990 Photographie couleur signée et datée "1990" au dos Colour photograph signed and dated "1990" on the reverse H.: 149 W.: 99 cm h: 149 w: 99 cm

DAVID ROBBINS

Talents published by the artist, all in very good condition, each contained in original artist's frames (occasional scuffs, some with minor paint loss).

David Robbins (École américaine). Estampe, photo

David Robbins (École américaine). Estampe, photo sur plexiglas: L'intérieur de l'église du Sablon. Par David Robbins, dans un encadrement lumineux. On y joint un certificat. Dimensions : H.: 185 L.: 118 P.: 14

David ROBBINS () SANS TITRE, 1990 Photographie couleur signé et daté "1990" au...

Untitled

David Robbins (AMERICAN, B.1957) Untitled metal and plexiglass lightbox 183 x 121 x 14 cm. Executed circa 1994, this piece is unique.

DAVID ROBBINS (b. 1957)

Talent, 1986-1987 18 gelatin silver prints each initialed 'DR', numbered '61/100' in pencil, credit and title stamps (on the verso) each 10 x 8in. (25.2 x 20.2cm.) (18)

DAVID ROBBINS B.1957

each numbered 4/100 on a label on the backing