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Lot 672

Edward Weston
Lincoln Steffens;

Fine Prints and Photographs

24 – 25 October 2006, 10:00 PDT

San Francisco

Sold for US$2,390 inc. premium

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Edward Weston

Lincoln Steffens, 1933
Gelatin silver print, signed and dated in pencil on the mount.
9 3/4 x 7 1/2in

Footnotes

Provenance:
Collection of Abe Mellinkoff, a protégé of Lincoln Steffens. Mellinkoff was the first city editor of the San Francisco Chronicle; sold Butterfield & Butterfield, San Francisco, 21 November 1993, lot 2044

Literature:
Conger, fig. 698

Lincoln Steffens was a well-known journalist and self-proclaimed muckraker who wrote prolifically about poverty and social change. He was friends with many of the most important writers of the day, such as Ezra Pound and Hemingway, and by 1929 had also befriended Weston. Weston photographed the writer on at least three occasions. This image was selected by the photographer and by writer Merle Armitage as one of one thirty-nine of the artist's works to be included in the 1932 publication, Art of Edward Weston (Conger, CCP)

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