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Metallic print mounted on acrylic Edition limited to 99 copies Measures: 24” x 16”  30” x 40”.

Metallic print mounted on acrylic. Edition limited to 99 copies. Measures: 24” x 16”  30” x 40”.

Metallic print mounted on acrylic Edition limited to 99 copies Measures: 24” x 16”  30” x 40”.

Metallic print mounted on acrylic Edition limited to 99 copies Measures: 24” x 16”  30” x 40”.

2017. Q3A / Berlin 40 x 50 cm / limited and numbered edition n°1/12 Digigraphy print on 320g textured cotton fineart paper. Certification: Signed and numbered by hand. F...

2017. Q3A / Berlin 40 x 50 cm / limited and numbered edition n°1/12 Digigraphy print on 320g textured cotton fineart paper. Certification: Signed and numbered by hand. Fr...

Remie Lohse was born in Puerto Rico, studied painting in Denmark, and settled in New York in 1928, where he became a professional photographer. In the 1930s he was a freelancer who specialized in advertising and magazine features, and shot covers for Vogue. If he often focused on the high life, seen in this couple stepping out on the town, he also shot humble subjects. He was more interested in his art than a particular milieu, and many of his photographs are little masterpieces. His contemporary Gilbert Seldes, the noted Vanity Fair media critic and “public intellectual” (not to mention father of actress Marian Seldes), featured Lohse in his 1934 book 'This is New York, The First Modern Photographic Book of New York.' In 1939 Lohse came out with his own book titled 'The Miniature Camera in Professional Hands.' Our photograph was one of three shot by Lohse for a 1934 Vogue article titled “High Spots and Low Music." If the photograph (image size 4 1/4" x 6") show a couple making the nocturnal rounds of Manhattan restaurants, bars, and jazz clubs, the story itself also covers the daytime meeting places of the ladies who lunch. The twist is that Lohse’s model was the author herself, Elena Mumm Thornton, and her husband James Worth...

Five original photographs from live Broadway performances at the historic Strand Theater. The Strand Theatre was originally an early movie palace locate...