Small collection of photographs of Josephine Baker in Paris, ca. 1951-1956, including six press photos and four vernacular snapshots

by Josephine Baker, photographers

$1,500 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

Paris: ca 1951-1956 . Six black-and-white press photographs, each approx. 19cm x 13cm ca. 7 x 5 or the reverse; and four snapshots, 8cm x 11cm ca 3 x 4-1/4 . Press photos with attached printed snipes; five back-stamped AGIP Michael Cohen, the sixth stamped A.D.P. / Agence Diffusion Presse ; the snapshots are unidentified, though each bears pencil annotations on verso in an unknown hand. Some curling to the press photos, with typical soil to versos; some

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