22 Signed original A. Aubrey Bodine photographs from the A. Aubrey Bodine Estate will be auctioned at Alex Cooper Saturday, January 29, 2020 @ 10:00 AM.
This auction is ON-LINE ONLY available @ www.alexcooper.com
Lots # 1080 thru # 1098: Images include Annapolis pictures, Sailboats, Park Avenue, Mount Vernon, Washington Monument, Dock Workers, and other Bodine subject matter.
Contact:
John Locke, Alex Cooper 443-470-1417
Jennifer B. Bodine, Estate of A. Aubrey Bodine, 410-479-1312 jbb@aaubreybodine.com
Born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1906, A. Aubrey Bodine began photographing in the early 1920s and continued a long and prolific career until his death in 1970. In 1927, at the early age of 21, Bodine became the feature photographer for the Baltimore Sunday Sun. For over forty years, Bodine’s photographs were published every week in the Sunday magazine. His popularity in the Mid-Atlantic States was unprecedented. Bodine was devoted to a style of photography often referred to as “pictorialism,” which had its roots in the late 19th and early 20th century. Pictorial photographers sought to separate themselves from the scientific applications of photography and wanted to be considered “artists.” To that end, Bodine’s approach to photography was a painterly style, which often stressed soft-focus imagery as well as expressive printing. www.aaubreybodine.com for more images and entertainment.
Washington Monument (1950) - (Image ID 26-086)
City Dock, Annapolis (1946) - (Image ID 08-071) - Here the small oyster, fishing, and crab boats tie up after a day in the bay and nearby rivers. Fishing parties will also find boats for hire located here. The City Dock is off Spa Creek, which forms one boundary of Annapolis, College Creek and the Severn River forming the other sides. From this point here is a nice view of the city, dominated by the State House dome.
Tecumseh, Naval Academy (1940) - (Image ID 08-089) - THE GOD OF 2.5 … This bronze replica of the U.S.S. Delaware’s figurehead is Tecumseh, the god of 2.5, the Academy’s passing grade. Perfect is 4.0. Pennies are tossed at him to gain his help in getting better grades or other boons such as a lovely drag (girl) for one of the hops (dances). Although dubbed "Tecumseh" by the Middies it is really "Tamenend", according to a Loyola professor.
State House, Annapolis (1962) - (Image ID 08-019) - It is the oldest state capitol in the nation still used for legislative purposes; it was begun in 1772. Two others had preceded it on the site. Its white-painted dome is 116 feet high. The statue at the entrance is of Roger Brooke Taney, a chief justice of the United States.
Stevedores (1955) - (Image ID 29-194) - The men here unloading rubber from a ship are really longshoremen; the stevedore is the supplier of such workers. But landlubbers have always confused the two terms. In Baltimore three-fourths of the 3,400 longshoremen are Negroes. This force has an international reputation for efficiency, speed and reliability and for being free from corruption. This photograph was accepted 46 times in Salon Competition. It won medals in Russia, Yugoslavia (twice) and Romania. This photograph appeared in The Face of Maryland, by A. Aubrey Bodine, published by Bodine & Associates.
Printing Press (1950) - (Image ID 29-084)
