18 Signed ORIGINAL A. Aubrey Bodine photographs will be auctioned at Alex Cooper Saturday, March 5, 2022 @ 10:00 AM.
This auction is In-Person and On-Line. Images include Mount Vernon, Park Avenue, Tattoo Parlor, Wash Day, Heavy Industry, Hippopotamus and other Bodine subject matter.
Lots # 1265 thru # 1282
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 # 1265 – Wash Day ((1964) STEPS-AND STEPS …The white steps of Baltimore have become the city’s trademark and a marvel to visitors. Most of them are white marble, from nearby quarries, and homeowners vie in keeping them bright. In any block, there is seldom a day that someone is not out scrubbing them. On the older houses, the scraping of countless thousands of footsteps has worn grooves in the stone. 2000 block of Penrose Avenue in West Baltimore.
Lot #1266 – Marble Steps (1945) STEPS-AND STEPS … The white steps of Baltimore have become the city’s trademark and a marvel to visitors. Many of them are white marble from nearby quarries. Marble Steps. 2000 block of Penrose looking west towards Pulaski.
Lot #1268 – The Block (1934) Tattoo Charlie, a skin specialist at work on Baltimore Street.
Lot #1269 – Wheels of Industry (1950)
Lot#1275 – Palmistry Window (c1960) Late night at the Palmistry shop located in the 800 Block of Howard Street.
Lot #1280 – Snow, Mt Vernon Place (c. 1950) The Heart of Baltimore … One of the glories of Baltimore – “Queen City of the Chesapeake” – is Mount Vernon Place which nestles quietly in the heart of the metropolis. The Doric column was the first monument started in honor of George Washington but was not the first one completed. That honor goes to the stone tower near Boonsboro, Maryland. The cornerstone of the Baltimore monument was laid on July 4, 1815, but the monument was not completed until 1829. The statue of Washington faces the bustling harbor where ships from all over the world have docked since the middle of the eighteenth century.
