Three choice lots from upcoming Heritage auctions Photographs Enlarge With his invention of strobe photography in the early 1930s, MIT professor and electrical engineer Harold Eugene Edgerton revolutionized not just photography, but also military surveillance and moviemaking. His experiments with using strobes to freeze objects in motion so they could be captured on film resulted […]
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Three choice lots from upcoming Heritage auctions Posters Enlarge After emerging from a command bunker during the harrowing days of the Battle of Britain, Winston Churchill was momentarily struck silent by the courage and sacrifice of England’s Royal Air Force pilots. He then delivered one of the most enduring lines of his career: “Never was […]
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Three choice lots from upcoming Heritage auctions Photographs Enlarge In 1935, the Federal Art Project, a New Deal program created to fund the visual arts in the United States, hired Berenice Abbott to document a transitioning New York City. Armed with federally funded equipment and a staff, Abbott produced a series of photographs she titled […]
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Three choice lots from upcoming Heritage auctions Russian Works of Art Enlarge Dmitry Levitsky stands among the most distinguished portraitists of the Russian Enlightenment, renowned for his ability to unite formal elegance with an acute sensitivity to character. Portrait of Mavra Borisovna Strugovshchikova, attributed to Levitsky, embodies these artistic qualities. Strugovshchikova was a well-known beauty […]
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