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KENNETH JOSEPHSON, (American b. 1932), CHICAGO, numbered, titled, dated and signed "# 61-35-50-28...

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KENNETH JOSEPHSON, (American b. 1932), CHICAGO, numbered, titled, dated and signed  # 61-35-50-28...
KENNETH JOSEPHSON
(American b. 1932)
CHICAGO
numbered, titled, dated and signed "# 61-35-50-28 / CHICAGO, 1961 / Kenneth Josephson" in pencil on verso of mount
"2246 P" inscribed in pencil on verso of mount
gelatin silver print mounted on board
53/4 x 91/16 in. (14.6 x 23 cm)
mount: 11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm)
1961
ESTIMATE: $4,000-6,000
PROVENANCE
From the artist
LITERATURE
Nathan Lyons, PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, NEW YORK, Horizon Books, 1967, p. 127 (illustrated)
Keith F. Davis, AN AMERICAN CENTURY OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Kansas City, Hallmark Cards, 1999, 2nd rev. ed., p. 380, pl. 380 (illustrated)
David Travis and Elizabeth Siegel, eds., TAKEN BY DESIGN: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE INSTITUTE OF DESIGN, 1937-1971, Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 2002, p. 143, pl. 136, cat. no. 77 (illustrated)
"Kenneth Josephson's work provides a particularly elegant and witty meditation on the puzzle of photographic vision. From his earliest mature work, Josephson has explored the paradoxes and conventions of photographic representation. An early picture such as CHICAGO, 1961, for example, is less a record of the world than a suggestion of the power of light and lens to create a world." (Davis, AN AMERICAN CENTURY OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Kansas City, Hallmark Cards, 1999, p. 410).