POLAROID AUCTION
Sotheby's puts over 1,000 photographs from the iconic camera company's collection on the block in a record-setting two-day sale.
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Destitute Pea Pickers in California, a 32-year-old Mother of Seven Children. Lange took this photo when working for the Farm Security Administration as part of Roosevelt's New Deal. The FSA produced some of the most remarkable social documentary photographs of the 20th century in an attempt to produce a record of American life between 1935 and 1944. Other FSA photographers included Jack Delano and Ben Shahn.
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Robert Mapplethorpe
Patti Smith
A diptych of unique Polaroid Type 58 prints
Est. $10/15,000
Sold for $43,750
Sotheby's New York
David Hockney
Imogen & Hermiane
Pembroke Studios, London, July 30, 1982
Unique SX-70 collage
Est. $30/50,000
Sold for $194,500
Sotheby's New York
Robert Rauschenberg
Japanese Sky I (From the Bleacher Series)
Unique four-part large-format Polapan print
Est. $40/60,000
Sold for $242,500
Sotheby's New York
Chuck Close
9-Part Self Portrait
Unique collage of large-format Polapan prints
Est. $50/70,000
Sold for $290,500
Photographs from The Polaroid Collection
June 21-22, 2010
Sotheby's New York
Kearsarge Pinnacles, partially snow-covered rocky formations along the edge of the river.
Ansel Adams, National Archives, Time Life Pictures / Getty Images
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