Auction of 2 rare photos brings in $1.6 million
Chicago Sun-Times
October 13, 2005
BY ANDREW HERRMANN Staff Reporter
“If a picture is worth a thousand words, two pictures are worth . . .
In the case of a pair of prints with Chicago connections, the answer is about $1.6 million — records for the auction sale of 20th century photographs.
Ironically, one of the big-bucks photos sold this week is of a homeless man — Dorothea Lange’s ‘White Angel Breadline,” which she shot in 1933 outside a San Francisco shelter. That photo, sold by the Museum of Science and Industry, was purchased for $822,400 by an unidentified buyer at Sotheby’s in New York.”
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