Doris Ullman

Lot 325: DORIS ULLMAN

Name: DORIS ULLMAN
Brand: Christie's
SKU: df06c5815a

Est: £600 GBP - £800 GBPSold:

Christie'sLondon, United KingdomMay 21, 2010

Item Overview

Description

DORIS ULLMAN

Roll, Jordan, Roll. Text by Julia Peterkin. New York: Robert O. Ballou, 1933.

Quarto (217 x 155 mm). 70 black and white photographs. (Light yellowing in the margins.) Original blue cloth, (cloth edges lightly faded), original photo-illustrated dust-jacket (restoration at folds and extremities); cloth folding case. Provenance: Neal Swalm (1903-2002, writer and broadcaster; ownership signature) -- Edna Ziel Hamer (small gift inscription on same leaf to:) -- Neal Sievers.

FIRST EDITION, IN DUST-JACKET. 'One of the most singular documentary photobooks of the 1930s' (The Photobook). Ullman's photographs 'straddle Pictorialism and Modernism' (101 Books). 101 Books, pp.78-9 (the deluxe issue); Auer, p.202; The Photobook, vol. I, p.135.

Artist or Maker

Doris Ullman

Provenance

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Auction Details

Photobooks

Christie's

May 21, 2010, 02:30 PM GMT

85 Old Brompton Road, London, LDN, SW7 3LD, UK

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