Joseph Szabo - Lifeguard's Dream - image-1

Lot 152 D

Joseph Szabo - Lifeguard's Dream

Auction 1003 - overview Cologne
29.11.2012, 00:00 - Photography
Estimate: 6.500 €
Result: 7.930 € (incl. premium)
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Gelatin silver print, printed 1978. 21 x 30.3 cm (27.8 x 35.3 cm). Signed, dated, titled and with handwritten copyright notice as well as title of the series 'Almost Grown' in pencil in the lower margin. Signed, dated, handwritten copyright notice in ballpoint pen and photographer's stamp on the verso. - Matted and framed under glass.

Joseph Szabo, who had received his training at the Pratt Institute in New York, began to portray the lives of American youngsters while working as an art teacher at a high school in the 1970s. In 1978 he published a powerful collection of teenagers’ portraits in a photobook called “Almost Grown”. Cornell Capa said in his preface to the book: (…) (ibid.) The cover of the book shows a detail from the photograph offered here, which Szabo took at one of his favourite locations, Jones Beach on Long Island.

Provenance

Acquired from the photographer by the present owner.

Literature

Joseph Szabo, Almost Grown, New York 1978, illus. on cover (detail); David Cashion (ed.), Joseph Szabo. Jones Beach, New York 2011, pp. 76f.