$3,800.00
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Art Shay
Brooklyn Twins, 1952
Silver gelatin print
14 x 18 inches
Courtesy of Stephen Daiter Gallery
Estimated value: $3,000
Starting bid: $2,000
Buy it now: $3,800
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Art Shay (American, 1922-2018)
Art Shay used his interest in storytelling to document American life, politics, and culture with a compassion, empathy, and sometimes, humor. Though his images range in subject, they are all based in his lifelong passion for the unvarnished truth. He photographed the community of Brooklyn, IL for Ebony Magazine in 1952. Brooklyn, popularly known as Lovejoy, is one of the oldest known Black settlements in the United States. The town was founded between 1829 and 1839 when Mother Priscilla Baltimore led a group of both free and fugitive slaves across the Mississippi River. Brooklyn Twins (1952) comes from this project.
Art Shay’s first photographs were published in a September 1944 issue of Look Magazine and, at age 25, he became Life Magazine’s youngest bureau chief. From 1948 on, Shay lived and worked in Chicago as a commercial and editorial freelance photographer. His images have been extensively printed and exhibited and are in the permanent collections of National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.; Art Institute of Chicago; LaSalle Bank Photography Collection, Chicago; and others.
