Live Auction 2076Important Photographs From a Private American Collection
MORRIS ENGEL (1918-2005)
Lot 14 One day at the Photo League, I met a friend who had a Rolleiflex and I asked to borrow it. I was working in Harlem at the time for the Feature Group, and the very first day with that camera I took one of the best pictures I've ever made, called Harlem Merchant. - Morris Engel

MORRIS ENGEL (1918-2005)

Harlem Merchant, New York, 1937

Closed17 October 2007

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MORRIS ENGEL (1918-2005)
Harlem Merchant, New York, 1937
gelatin silver print
credit in unknown hand in pencil (on verso)
9¾ x 12in. (24.7 x 30.5 cm.)