21st May, 2026 12:00

Fine Photographs
 
Lot 221
 

W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978)
Tennessee Williams on the set of A Street Car Named Desire, Broadway, 1948

Silver gelatin print, printed c.1985, image size 18 x 14cm, sheet size 24 x 17.5cm, caption, including Magnum distribution credit, typed directly onto print verso, with additional copyright credit reproduction limitation stamps, and Japanese agency label affixed verso. As per the caption, this print was most likely used to publicise the 1985 publication of "W. Eugene Smith: Let Truth Be the Prejudice". The lengthy caption, which includes a short biography about Smith, notes distribution from the Magnum offices in Paris, with the addendum "NOT FOR PUBLICATION IN THE UNITED STATES".

"Amidst his papers, author Tennessee Williams in NY for the opening on Broadway of A Streetcar Named Desire."

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