Christian Simonpietri

Khe Sahn – The Mousetrap of Vietnam. Marines duck for cover in their trenches during an enemy mortar attack, Vietnam War. January 21 – July 9, 1968

Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on single-weight paper

Photographer’s PIX & Gamma Agency credit stamps with typewritten title label on verso

Print size: 11 ¾ x 8 inches

Mat size: 17 x 14 inches

CS-VW-02

Condition: Handling marks throughout

Retail: $3500

BIO:

Christian Simon-pietri (GAMMA) (LIFE Magazine):

Group Exhibitions:

2013: “War/Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath,”Annenberg Space for Photography, Washington DC, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (includes McCullinn, Ut, Baltermants, and more)

 

Found Publications:

1966: LIFE: Jun 3, p. 3 (Vietnam)

1966: LIFE: Sep 16, p. 44-5 (de Gaulle in Cambodia)

1968: LIFE: May 17, p. 3 (“Freelancer Christian Simon-pietri was hit by a grenade fragment while following General Loan; his wound was not serious. Saigon.”)

1968: LIFE: Apr 19, p. 84 (Vietnam)

1969: LIFE: Jun 13, p. 32 (de Gaulle)

1971: LIFE: Dec 10, p. 31 (Pakistan)

1989: New York Magazine: May 29, p. 12

2009: War in the Middle East: A Reporter's Story: Black September and the Yom Kippur War, by Wilborn Hampton, Candlewick, p. 44

2011: The Guardian: “The Vietnam War remembered in pictures – review

Tribute to Henri Huet and the photographers who risked all to capture images of Vietnam conflict opens at Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris”, 15 Mar Y Claire Guillot

 

Film:

1987: Kinski rigando Paganini

 

 

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.

 

 

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