Bruce Springsteen--Barbara Pyle

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

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Description

Photographic portrait of Bruce Springsteen, 1975
photograph

PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED black and white vintage print, head and shoulders portrait of Springsteen wearing a white singlet, USED BY SPRINGSTEEN AS HIS FIRST PASSPORT PHOTOGRAPH, taken in the photographer’s New York City studio on Seventh Avenue South, signed later by the photographer, 354 x 278mm., one of four of this size printed by the photographer at the time, small piece of clear tape to top middle edge, left corner slightly discoloured with light creasing

Literature

Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band 1975: Photographs by Barbara Pyle (2015), illustrated p.29

Catalogue Note

Pyle took passport photographs for the entire band in her studio. The inclusion of this image in the forthcoming collection of Pyle's photography Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band 1975 will be the first time this photograph has been published.