EDWARD (ED) CLARK (AMERICAN, 1911-2000)
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Edward (Ed) Clark
American, 1911-2000
Portrait of Gangster Mickey Cohen, 1949
Silver gelatin print
Portrait of Mickey Cohen surrounded by a backdrop of associated news articles. Mounted behind glass, ebonized frame with Robert Mann Gallery invoice to verso noting Photographer's LIFE agency, hand stamped and dated to verso of print.
About the artist: Ed Clark was a 20th century photographer who worked primarily for Life magazine. His best remembered work captured a weeping Graham W. Jackson, Sr. playing his accordion as the body of the recently deceased President Franklin D. Roosevelt was being transported to Washington, DC.
His work came to the notice of Life, which made him a stringer in 1936. A 1942 photograph of World War I hero Alvin York registering for "The Old Man's Draft" brought a job offer, but he turned it down; "I was raising two young boys, and New York didn't seem like the place to raise them," he later explained. However, he changed his mind, becoming a staff photographer in 1944, after Life allowed him to remain in Tennessee for a few years.
Image: 13 1/2 x 10 1/4 in. (34.29 x 26.04 cm.), frame: 21 x 17 in. (53.34 x 43.18 cm.)
American, 1911-2000
Portrait of Gangster Mickey Cohen, 1949
Silver gelatin print
Portrait of Mickey Cohen surrounded by a backdrop of associated news articles. Mounted behind glass, ebonized frame with Robert Mann Gallery invoice to verso noting Photographer's LIFE agency, hand stamped and dated to verso of print.
About the artist: Ed Clark was a 20th century photographer who worked primarily for Life magazine. His best remembered work captured a weeping Graham W. Jackson, Sr. playing his accordion as the body of the recently deceased President Franklin D. Roosevelt was being transported to Washington, DC.
His work came to the notice of Life, which made him a stringer in 1936. A 1942 photograph of World War I hero Alvin York registering for "The Old Man's Draft" brought a job offer, but he turned it down; "I was raising two young boys, and New York didn't seem like the place to raise them," he later explained. However, he changed his mind, becoming a staff photographer in 1944, after Life allowed him to remain in Tennessee for a few years.
Image: 13 1/2 x 10 1/4 in. (34.29 x 26.04 cm.), frame: 21 x 17 in. (53.34 x 43.18 cm.)
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EDWARD (ED) CLARK (AMERICAN, 1911-2000)
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