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Horace Bristol
Estate Prints

WWII

Estate Prints


PBY Blister Gunner, Rescue Rabaul, 1944, 32" x 32", edition 6 of 10, $6,000

This is Bristol's most famous photograph. The reason the gunner is naked is because he is in an amphibeous plane that is forced to land when the plane next to his is shot down. He takes off his clothes and jumps into the water to save two airmen from the down plane. He pulls them to safety in his plane, where there are photographs of the two airmen having a cigarette after the rescue. Meanwhile the Japaneese continue firing on the gunner's plane and he must immediately re -ann the gun, dripping wet. My favorite part of this photograph is the chart at the bottom right that says "This is the Enemy". If you only know who the enemy is by consluting a chart it seems a large statement about peace.

California & The West

Signed Silver Gelatin Prints

6th Street Bridge, 1938, 34" x 27.5", $6,000

In Life magazine photographer Horace Bristol's 1933 photo, the 6th Street Bridge's graceful, steel, streamline Moderne arches gleam in the sunlight, the perfect symbol of a young metropolis just coming into its own. When it opened in 1932 the nearly mile-long link was the longest concrete bridge in the world. It was also the last great downtown Los Angeles River bridge — formally known as a viaduct because it spans not just a river but railroad tracks and roads — and the crowning achievement of the city's engineer for bridges and structures, Merrill Butler, who, over four decades of service, oversaw the construction of at least nine Los Angeles River bridges. It was truly a bridge that a river could love. Now it is threatened by deterioration of its concrete supports and will be torn down. Three silver gelatin prints of the 6th Street Bridge, exhibited at Frank Pictures Gallery, represent the very last four signed images from Horace Bristol's 6th Street Bridge series from 1933. Once these particular prints are sold, signed photographs from the series will only be available on the secondary market. These photographs were taken in 1933 and printed by Bristol between 1985 and his death in 1997. The 24" x 30" posthumous digital print was made by Horace Bristol's estate (signed and stamped by Henri Bristol for the estate) in an edition of 15 in this size excusively.

Estate Prints


Brakeman Jumping from Boxcar, 28" x 28.5", $3,000


6th Street Bridge, 1938, 34" x 27.5", $3,000

In Life magazine photographer Horace Bristol's 1933 photo, the 6th Street Bridge's graceful, steel, streamline Moderne arches gleam in the sunlight, the perfect symbol of a young metropolis just coming into its own. When it opened in 1932 the nearly mile-long link was the longest concrete bridge in the world. It was also the last great downtown Los Angeles River bridge — formally known as a viaduct because it spans not just a river but railroad tracks and roads — and the crowning achievement of the city's engineer for bridges and structures, Merrill Butler, who, over four decades of service, oversaw the construction of at least nine Los Angeles River bridges. It was truly a bridge that a river could love. Now it is threatened by deterioration of its concrete supports and will be torn down.

 

 


Log in Water

Tree Nob Hill



Black and White Cowboys


Color Cowboys


Factory


Aircraft Carrier Deck

 

 

Japan
Signed Silver Gelatin Prints


Shinto Shrine Melee, Signed 11" X 14", silver gelatian print, signed, $6,000

Estate Prints


Shinto Shrine Melee, 1944, 47" x 33", giclee print, $4,000

Named by National Geographic as one of the 100 greatest photographs of all time, this photograph of a Shinto religious ritual only looks like Dante's Ningth Circle of Hell, it is really a festive celebration of fertility where Shinto Priests, just out of camera range, throw blessings into a giant mosh pit of naked farmers.


Geisha Choosing a Parasol, 1946, 24" x 30", $3,000


Mt. Fuji, 1946, 24" x 30", $3,000


Rice Field, Bali, 24" x 30", $3,000

 

 

 

 
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