Gilles Swinkels
Negro Students at the University of Georgia: Charlanye Hunter, accompanied by a student enters a building to attend classes on her first day at the University of Georgia. She was greeted with hostile stares, but no violence. 1961
Vintage gelatin silver print on double-weight paper
Photographer’s credit stamp with PIX and typewritten title labels on verso
Print size: 8 x 10 ¾ inches
Mat size: 14 x 17 inches
Provenance: The PIX Agency Archive, NY
Condition: Overall Very Good; one handling mark in lower center; lower corners slightly creased (barely affecting the image; all visible only under raking light and under close inspection
GS-CR-01
Retail: $1200-$1500
Alberta Charlayne Hunter was born in Due West, South Carolina, daughter of Col. Charles Shepherd Henry Hunter, Jr., U.S. Army, a regimental chaplain, and his wife, the former Althea Ruth Brown. In 1961, Hunter became part of the civil rights movement when she and Hamilton Holmes became the first two African-American students to enroll in the University of Georgia. She graduated in 1963.
PIX Publishing Agency:
We are now representing a large collection of prints from P.I.X. (PIX) Publishing Inc., the photography agency founded in New York City in November 1935 by German photographers Alfred Eisenstaedt & George Karger and photography agents Leon Daniel (chief of Associated Press in Berlin from 1927-1935) & Celia Krutschuk, all of whom fled Nazi Germany and found their new homes in NYC.
In 1973, the PIX Publishing agency archive was donated to an east-coast library where housed until 2018. PIX represented such photographers as Cecil Beaton, Ferenc Berko, Edouard Boubat, Josef Breitenbach, Robert Capa, Joe Clark, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Ed Feingersh, Laura Gilpin, John Gutmann, Nina Leen, Don McCullin, Marion Post-Wolcott, Willy Ronis, Fred Stein, Ezra Stoller, Julian Wasser, Garry Winogrand, George Zimbel and many more.
PIX also worked with the prestigious agencies Camera Press, Dalmas, Gamma, and Holmes-Lebel, among others. PIX also represented Gökşin Sipahioğlu and Gilles Caron, the founders of world-renowned SIPA Press.
The Verso:
Each print also bears the stamp of the institution that
owned the archive from 1973 to 2017. Out of respect for the institution, we are only publicly
displaying the pertinent credit and title information on the verso. Upon
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