20 Signed original A. Aubrey Bodine photographs will be auctioned at Alex Cooper Saturday, December 10, 2021 @ 10:00 AM.
This auction is In-Person and On-Line. Images include Trains, Construction, Maritime, Ocean City, Amish and other Bodine subject matter.
Lots # 1270 thru # 1289
On-line bidding is currently available @ www.alexcooper.com.
Contact:
John Locke, Alex Cooper 443-470-1417
Jennifer B. Bodine, Estate of A. Aubrey Bodine, 410-479-1312
jbb@aaubreybodine.com
Born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1906, A. Aubrey Bodine began photographing in the early 1920s and continued a long and prolific career until his death in 1970. In 1927, at the early age of 21, Bodine became the feature photographer for the Baltimore Sunday Sun. For over forty years, Bodine’s photographs were published every week in the Sunday magazine. His popularity in the Mid-Atlantic States was unprecedented. Bodine was devoted to a style of photography often referred to as “pictorialism,” which had its roots in the late 19th and early 20th century. Pictorial photographers sought to separate themselves from the scientific applications of photography and wanted to be considered “artists.” To that end, Bodine’s approach to photography was a painterly style, which often stressed soft-focus imagery as well as expressive printing. Bodine was awarded Honorary Fellowships in the Photographic Society of America and the National Press Photographers Association, the first photographer to be acclaimed so acclaimed by both associations. Please see www.aaubreybodine.com for more images and entertainment.
Lot # 1277 (01-053) The Bottle (1961) Prize Winning Photograph. The Bottle by Sunpapers Photographer, AAB is now on tour in Poland, after having won a silver medal at the Second International Exhibit, Warsaw. Another of Bodine’s compositions was similarly honored last year by the Union of Polish Artist Photographers. Locale of image is a back porch on Tyson Street; time is after a snowstorm.
Lot#1275 (03-008) Two Nuns (1935) Bodine stopped his car in the middle of Charles Street to snap the sisters waiting in the snow. “Two Nuns” was reproduced in U. S. Camera and Harper’s Bazaar. The effect of falling snow was achieved by drawing on the negative. In addition to other awards, this photograph won a gold medal at the 1955 Hong Kong salon. It was accepted 25 times in salon competitions around the world. “Two Nuns” is in the permanent collection of the Fogg Museum, Harvard University. This image appeared in “Bodine, A Legend in this Time”, the biography of A. Aubrey Bodine written by Hal Williams, his boss at the Baltimore Sunday Sun.
Lot #1276 (02-045) Susquehanna Mist (1964) Susquehanna Flats, Havre de Grace, Harford County. Heavy fog and a high tide engulf an islet on the edge of the Susquehanna Flats.
Lot #1283 (06-171) Howard Street Bridge (1955) Metal bridge on Howard Street south of North Avenue.
Lot #1280 (03-149) Daffodils-Gloucester, Virginia (1960) Little boy holding an armload of daffodils.
Lot #1282 (06-073) Chesapeake Bay Bridge (1954) BAY BRIDGE … Maryland’s eastern and western shores are linked by the largest continuous entirely-over-water steel structure in the world. The bridge from shore to shore – from Sandy Point to Kent Island – measures 4.35 miles. The entire project, including approach roads, is 7.727 miles long. About 6,500,000-man hours of work and 60,000 tons of steel were needed to build it. Work began on November 3, 1949. The bridge was opened on July 30, 1952. It cost about $45,000,000 and will be paid for by tolls from this and other state bridges. The bridge was built in a graceful, sweeping curve to comply with regulations determined by the Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army, and to land the structure on favorable terrain.
