ID 1029183
Lot 532 | Howlin' Wolf, Memphis grocery store
Estimate value
£ 1 000 – 1 500
Howlin' Wolf, Memphis grocery store, c.1951
gelatin silver print, printed 2002
signed in pencil with additional pencil annotations (verso)
14 x 11 in. (354 x 278 mm); framed (512 x 412 mm).
Provenance: Michael Hoppen Gallery
Photojournalist Ernest C. Withers is best known for recording over 60 years of African American history in the segregated South, capturing key images of the Montgomery bus boycott, the Emmett Till murder trial, and the Memphis sanitation strike, as well as the blues musicians of Beale Street including B. B. King and Howlin' Wolf.
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