Original portrait photograph of Mississippi John Hurt, 1965

by Mississippi John Hurt, Bernard Gotfryd, subject, photographer

$975 · Offered by Royal Books

Forest Hills, NY: Photo-Graphics, Circa 1965. Vintage satin finish portrait photograph of influential country blues musician Mississippi John Hurt, 1965. Stamp of photographer Bernard Gotfryd on the verso, along with annotations in manuscript pencil relating to same.Although Hurt's initial recordings with Okeh Records in the 1920s were commercial failures, driving Hurt back into sharecropping, he experienced a brief period of renewed interest in the

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