Lot 4212: Güler, Ara: Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso. 1971. Vintage gelatin silver print. 40 x 30,3 cm. Photographer's stamp, signed by the photographer in ballpoint pen and annotated in pencil on the verso.
After training to be an actor and studying economics, Ara Güler became a photographer and worked for the newspaper Yeni Istanbul . Later he worked for Time Life , Paris Match and Stern . In 1956 he met Henri Cartier-Bresson and Marc Riboud and became a member of Magnum. Ara Güler has received many important prizes. In 1961 Photography Annual named him among the seven best photographers of the world. In 1962 he was nominated 'Master of the Leica' and in 1968 MOMA named him one of the ten masters of color photography. - Minimal edge wear, light crease in lower right corner, otherwise a dark print in near excellent condition.