This is one of many great vintage & antique items
I'm currently listing from various estates. Please take
a look at my other merchandise at your leisure.

You are bidding on:
Original Photograph
of ANDREI SINYAVSKY
by Jerry Bauer
c1960s

"B"

Rare original photograph by Jerry Bauer ~ known within the literary world as the ultimate writers' photographer ~ and also as a master of capturing his subjects in natural light.

Period: 1960-1969. Vintage Print. Portrait of Andrei Sinyavsky. Artist: Jerry Bauer (1934-2010). Total Dimensions & Image Size: 9.25 x 11.625 inches. Gelatin silver print on double weight paper. Titled in black ink with photographer's copyright stamp verso.

Andrei Donatovich Sinyavsky (1925 Moscow - 1997 Paris) was a Russian writer, dissident, political prisoner, emigrant, Professor of Sorbonne University, magazine founder and publisher. He frequently wrote under the pseudonym Abram Tertz. After Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Andrei Sinyavsky was the most famous Soviet dissident. His 1966 trial in Moscow (with Yuli Daniel) for publishing abroad "anti-Soviet" satirical stories became sensational. He was sentenced to seven years' hard labour; the occasion marked the beginning of the modern dissident movement in the Soviet Union.

Bauer photographed many luminaries of literature as well as directors and opera singers ~ and yet he was not self-aggrandising. He left almost nothing of a footprint about himself (not even a self-portrait can be found online) but his body of work, which is slowly being revealed in time, speaks volumes. Much of his work still hides in the archives of publishing houses, or somewhere in Rome, or with family members. Yet - the occasional image of Jack Kerouac or Somerset Maugham can occasionally be found reproduced as a postcard.

This photograph (as well as the others I'm listing) showed up at a Los Angeles street fair. Not all the writers represented in this archive are household names ~ but all have written treasured works. Please take a moment to view all the other writer portraits I'm auctioning this week.

Gelatin Silver Print Measures 9.25 x 11.625 Inches.
Condition: Very Good. Some Loss Bottom Edge. See Scans & Pics.

~ The watermark and dotted line are for protection of buyer and seller and do not appear on the original you'll receive ~

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Thanks for Looking and Good Luck Bidding

SWJC