Advertising
You are not logged in

New York Magazine

Skip to content, or skip to search.

Skip to content, or skip to search.

International Center of Photography to Exhibit eBay Treasures

1/12/09 at 2:27 PM

Woman with umbrella, by Martin Munkacsi, circa 1936.

Woman with umbrella, by Martin Munkacsi, circa 1936.Photo: Courtesy of ICP

The International Center of Photography is opening a show culled from eBay. Curator Brian Wallis was alerted to a listing on eBay for 4,000 of Harper's Bazaar photographer Martin Munkacsi's long-lost negatives. He drove to the seller's house in Connecticut and found 300 boxes with images of Jean Harlow, Katharine Hepburn, and Fred Astaire. The seller priced the images — lost on an immigration journey — at $1 million. No word on what ICP paid for them. [NYM]

Advertising
Writer
Amy Odell
Managing Editor
Jessica Coen
Fashion Editor
Amina Akhtar
Assistant Editor
Sharon Clott
Recent News