Date: March 6 2021
A. Aubrey Bodine Photograph Auction
21 Signed original A. Aubrey Bodine photographs will be auctioned at Alex Cooper Saturday, March 6 2021 @ 10:00 AM.
This auction is on-line ONLY.
Images include Baltimore scenes, rural and urban scenes, hunting scenes, NASA astronauts, ice fishing, ice skating and other Bodine subject matter.
Lots # 1287 thru # 1309.
On-line bidding is currently available @ www.alexcooper.com.
Contact:
John Locke, Alex Cooper 443-470-1417
Jennifer B. Bodine, Estate of A. Aubrey Bodine, 410-479-1312
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 it 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.
Image ID 05-051 / Conowingo Dam (1936) - The 1936 flood was the greatest ever reported on the Susquehanna; over 5,700,000 gallons a second! Indeed it was the greatest known for any navigable river. The giant Conowingo hydro-electric power plant opened its fifty large gates and the three regulating gates, allowing 20,500 cubic feet of water per second to pass.
Image ID 17-403 / Boys Swimming in the Patapsco River (1928) - This photograph appeared in the Sun Magazine in 1950 with an article highlighting 100 news photos that had been selected in a national competition from photographers representing 610 newspapers. The aim of the competition was to select images “depicting America’s free children.”
Image ID 25-086 / Winter Night (1948)
Image ID 28-029
Image ID 50-907 / David (1969) - One of Bodine's last images for exhibition. All records indicate he never sent it out.
