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Heading: (Kaufman, Bob)
Author: Kessler, Chester, photographer
Title: Lot of 2 original gelatin silver-print photographs of San Francisco poet, Bob Kaufman
Place: San Francisco
Publisher: Chester Kessler
Date: 1954
Item # : 168865
Sale Number   327
Lot Number   228
Sale Name    
The Edwin Blair Collection of Beat Literature, plus Modern Literature
Sale Date   03/09/2006
Price realized   $ 184
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Description:
With: a 6½x8¼" portrait of the Beat poet with no shirt on in front of an iron gate with grape vine designs in the background, with penciled note on verso; and a 9½x7½" portrait of Kaufman wearing a shirt standing in front of a wall with peeling paint, which is signed on verso "Collection: Robert E. Johnson" and signed by the photographer, Chester Kessler. Both mounted on card-stock backing.
Both rubberstamped on the verso from the San Francisco photographer.
Condition:
Slight wear to versos, else fine.
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