1971 EUGENE RICHARDS vintage SUPERMAN Doe Lake Plantation FEW COMFORTS mtd

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1971 EUGENE RICHARDS vintage SUPERMAN Doe Lake Plantation FEW COMFORTS mtd:
$6500.00

The members of the Valentinefamily watched myeyes as together we passed in slow timethrough theirhouse. We laughed and chattered. My eyes, alert to broken furniture, required apologies. Younger children were close to theTV. An older son, who had tried Chicago for seven months, was lying sullen inthe back."There just isn't much for young men around here."As the Valentines told me of difficulties thatcouldn't be counted and wearyingly engaged mysympathies, I felt in each nerve of mine a sense of the world slipping by, while I merely observed itsdisappearance.I feared being onlyeyes, only a cameraman.
– Eugene Richards, Few Comforts or Surprises: The Arkansas Delta (MIT Press, 1973, p. 92)

EUGENE RICHARDS (1944 – )

Doe Lake Plantation, Ark., 1971vintage gelatin silver print, mounted
Signed, titled and inscribed "for Jim, an old print, on Christmas" by the artist in pencil on the mount beneath the image.
image: 6 3/4 x 9 7/8 in. (17.2 x 25.1 cm)mount: 14 x 17 in. ( 35.5 x43cm)
Provenance:From the artist.To a colleague or former student.to the present owner, 2006.
Elsewhere titled:Superman, Hughes, AR. [artist's website]

A powerful image, this is an opportunity to acquire a rare vintage print.

Selling framed to museum standards in a blonde maple frame with wooden strainer and ultraviolet light filtering acrylic glazing (OP-3) all in very good used condition. (frame 16 1/2 x 19 1/2 x 1 1/2 in.)

Conditionas shown in sale images and here described:Neutral toned print on semi-gloss paper in overall good condition, moderatesurface rubbing throughout,visible under close inspection and especially noticeablein raking light; area with light scratches (4mm x 8mm) just above top right corner of TV; droplet stain (3 cm) just above inscription and signature noticeable under close inspection; three tiny edge chips lower left corner (two on left edge 3cm up, one on bottom edge 4mm from corner.) 4-ply mount board faintly toned near edges; corner bumping and extremitywear; drip of some kind, possibly glue (30 cm from lower left corner into inscription and extending onto the print); age toning, glue stains and soiling verso.*Also view sale images to help ascertain print quality and condition.*

Literature:

Eugene Richards,Few Comforts or Surprises: The Arkansas Delta, MIT Press, 1973, p.93

"Richards’ first book… a documentation of life in the impoverished and racially troubled South."

Rest assured all items will be packaged with great care. I’m happy to ship without the frame if desired by the purchaser.

I have loved living with this artwork. As I am selling due to personal hardship, mostly I have been pricing everything on the low end of a reasonable range for this market -in an effort to sell, and ideally sell quickly. This I’ve priced above the low end of a reasonable range. That said, if this photograph doesn’t find an appreciative buyer who will cherish it, it will enrich my life for the rest of my days.It is a special print.

Inquiries and best offers welcomed.

ABOUT

Eugene Richards, photographer, writer, and filmmaker, was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1944. After graduating from NorthEastern University with a degree in English, he studied photography with Minor White. In 1968, he joined VISTA, Volunteers in Service to America, a government program established as an arm of the so-called” War on Poverty.” Following a year and a half in Eastern Arkansas, Richards helped found a social service organization and a community newspaper, Many Voices, which reported on black political action as well as the Ku Klux Klan. Photographs he made during these four years were published in his first monograph, Few Comforts or Surprises: The Arkansas Delta.Upon returning to Dorchester, Richards began to document the changing, racially diverse neighborhood where he was born. After being invited to join Magnum Photos in 1978, he worked increasingly as a freelance magazine photographer, undertaking assignments on such diverse topics as the American family, drug addiction, emergency medicine, pediatric AIDS, aging and death in America. In 1992, he directed and shot Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue, the first of seven short films he would eventually make.Eugene Richards has authored sixteen books and his photographs have been collected into three comprehensive monographs. Exploding Into Life, which chronicles his first wife Dorothea Lynch’s struggle with breast cancer, received Nikon's Book of the Year award. For Below The Line: Living Poor in America, his documentation of urban and rural poverty, Richards received an Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography. The Knife & Gun Club: Scenes from an Emergency Room received an Award of Excellence from the American College of Emergency Physicians. Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue, an extensive reportorial on the effects of hardcore drug usage, received the Kraszna-Krausz Award for Photographic Innovation in Books. That same year, Americans We was the recipient of the International Center of Photography's Infinity Award for Best Photographic Book. In 2005, Pictures of the Year International chose The Fat Baby, an anthology of fifteen photographic essays, Best Book of the year. Richards’s most recent books include The Blue Room, a study of abandoned houses in rural America; War Is Personal, an assessment in words and pictures of the human consequences of the Iraq war; and Red Ball of a Sun Slipping Down, a remembrance of life on the Arkansas Delta.
SELECTED AWARDS & HONORSGuggenheim Fellowship
W. Eugene Smith Memorial Award
National Endowment for the Arts Grants
International Center of Photography Infinity Awards
Kraszna-Krausz Book Award
Leica Medal of Excellence
Leica Oskar Barnack Award
Olivier Rebbot Award
Amnesty International Media Award
Lyndhurst Prize
Lifetime Achievement Visa d'or Award
Robert F. Kennedy Lifetime Achiement Journalism Award
Missouri Honor Medal
Gahan Lectureship, Harvard University
National Geographic Magazine Grant
Getty Images Grant
POYi Magazine Photographer of the Year
World Press Photo
SELECTED PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTIONSMetropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of Modern Art
George Eastman Museum
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
SFMOMA
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Museum Folkwang
Centre Pompidou
Museum of the City of New YorkInternational Center of Photography
Harvard Art Museum / Fogg Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Addison Gallery of American Art
New York Public Library
Les Recontres d'Arles Photographie
Harry Ransom Center

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