Portrait of George Bernard Shaw examining stamps. London, 1938, printed 2017

In this portrait Shaw examines the stamps which Sternberger had designed for the Belgian Royal Family, featuring the Royal children. Shaw was a philatelist, and the offer of the stamps was part of Sternberger’s method to gain access to Shaw.

$900 unframed; framed: $1,300

Portrait of Albert Einstein. Princeton, New Jersey, 1950, printed 2017

In this portrait Sternberger shows Einstein dressed informally. Einstein was keenly aware of his public image, and often attempted to show a cheerful visage. The common backgrounds of the two men helped the photographer to put Einstein in a relaxed state and to capture him in a more vulnerable pose.

$1,250

Yediot Ma’ariv. “The Face of the Mandate from Beginning to End, Illustrated Supplement for May 15, 1948.”. Jerusalem, May 15, 1948

Ma’ariv was the most widely read newspaper in Israel for the two decades following the newspaper’s founding in 1948. This photo supplement was printed on the day of the declaration of the establishment of the State of Israel and attached as a “Sabbath Supplement” to that day’s issue.

$1,200

A Vanished World. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983

First edition. Signed and inscribed by Roman Vishniac: “It should not happen again Roman [and] Edith Vishniac 1985.”

$750

The Psychological Portrait: Marcel Sternberger’s Revelations in Photography. Foreword by Phillip Prodger.. New York: Skira Rizzoli, 2016

First edition, one of 100 copies of the Deluxe Estate Edition, signed and numbered by the author and accompanied by your choice of one of four 8 x 10 inch archival pigment photographs (Einstein, Freud, Shaw, or Kahlo).

$165

Bust portrait signed and dated 1917 by Balfour. [London], 1917

British statesman Arthur Balfour, who had served as Prime Minister from 1902-1905, was Foreign Secretary in 1916-1919. In 1917, the year this portrait was taken, Balfour wrote the Balfour Declaration supporting the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

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An important collection of 40 mammoth-plate photographs of the American West, created for the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. Watkins, c. 1863-74.

Carleton Watkins exhibited these very photographs at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, the first world’s fair in America.  Watkins is the greatest of the first generation of photographers of the American West. His early photographs of Yosemite and Utah have never been surpassed. When his work was exhibited back East, the New York Times declared, “As specimens of the photographic art they are unequaled. The views are … indescribably unique and beautiful. Nothing in the way of landscapes can be more impressive.”

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Vues de la Nubie et de la Haute Égypte. [Luxor], 1875-1894

This splendid album comprises 128 fine, large-format albumen prints by Antonio Beato, who created the “largest archive of the vestiges of Egypt” (Zannier).

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A collection of 58 outstanding photographs documenting the early days of the IDF. Eretz Israel, [1948-1949]

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