Photographs

Ben Shahn

Medicine Show, Huntingdon, Tennessee

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April 10, 04:33 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 USD

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Ben Shahn

1898 - 1969

Medicine Show, Huntingdon, Tennessee

gelatin silver print, negative number '6167-5' in pencil, '25'[circled] and 'N-33'[crossed out] in red grease pencil, and with caption and date in red ink on a fragment of masking tape on the reverse

image: 6½ by 9⅝ in. (16.5 by 24.4 cm.)

Executed in 1935.

Margaret R. Weiss, ed., Ben Shahn, Photographer: An Album from the Thirties (New York, 1973), pl. 25

Deborah Martin Kao and Jenna Webster, eds., Ben Shahn’s New York: The Photography of Modern Times (New Haven, 2000), p. 298

Prints of this and variant images have been located in several institutional collections: the International Center of Photography, New York; the New York Public Library (a slightly narrower cropping); and Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Cambridge (a variant negative).