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Lot Number
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74
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Author
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MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE 1904-1971
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Title
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THE LIVING DEAD AT BUCHENWALD
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Year Published
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1945
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Description
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large-format, ferrotyped, mounted, annotations in ink on the reverse, framed, 1945 (Portrait of Myself, pp. 268-9; Callahan, pp. 152-153; Goldberg, pl. 45; Retrospective, p. 93; Best of Life, p. 20) 15 5/8 by 19 3/8 in. (39.7 by 49.3 cm.)
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Lot Note
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Bourke-White accompanied General George Patton and his Third Army troops into the concentration camp at Buchenwald on the morning of April 11, 1945. German troops and SS administrators had abandoned the camp just two hours before. This was the first liberation of any of the German concentration camps, and no one was prepared for what was there. As Bourke-White recounted in her 1963 autobiography, Portrait of Myself, 'I saw and photographed the files of naked, lifeless bodies, the human skeletons in furnaces, the living skeletons who would die the next day because they had had to wait too long for deliverance, the pieces of tattooed skin for lampshades. Using the camera was almost a relief. It interposed a slight barrier between myself and the horror in LOT 136
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Provenance
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Originally from the collection of Margaret Bourke-White
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Estimated Price
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USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00
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Actual Price
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USD 116,500.00
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