Bob Henriques (1930-2011)

The World’s Smallest Woman: Pretty, graceful, 19-year-old Pattie Maloney has recently joined the Nate Eagle Midget Troup, now with the Ringling Bros. Circus, NYC, 1955

Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print

Credited on typewritten title label with “Camera Press” agency stamp and PIX label on verso

Print size: 7 5/8 x 7 ¼ inches

Mat size: 14 x 11 inches

Condition: A few slight handling marks throughout as is typical of a print from this time period and made for the purposes of the press

BH-NYC-02

Retail: $2500

Bob Henriques (1930-2011) (Magnum) (LIFE Photographer)

Bob Henriques (1930–2011) was a photojournalist associated with Magnum Photos known for candid portraits of notable people, including Marilyn Monroe, Fidel Castro, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr. He was active during the 1950s and 1960s.

 

Henriques was born as Robert Granville Henriques on February 1, 1930 and spent the last years of his life in Homestead, Florida. His photography is known for its focus on famous icons, as he often worked on the sets of major motion pictures, such as The Seven Year Itch and Long Day's Journey Into Night as well as for major magazines. His work has been included in exhibitions in Germany at Kunsthaus Hamburg as well as in the United States at Staley + Wise Gallery in New York City and in the Print Room at Magnum Photos.[5] Some of his photos are now in the Magnum Archive housed at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin.

LIFE Publications:

1957: LIFE Sep 9, p. 32-33, 67

1957: LIFE Aug 12, p. 34-34, 106

1957: LIFE Sep 23, p. 67

1958: LIFE Dec 1, p. 142

1959: LIFE Jun 1, p. 20-21

1959: LIFE Aug 17, p. 34-35

1963: LIFE May 10, p. 81, 94

1963: LIFE Apr 5, p. 14-25, 25, 27, 28-29, 101

1964: LIFE Jan 31, p. 34-35

 

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 it has since been housed. As of this year, the collection is in private hands.

 

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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