Description: John Dominis (1921-2013), Mickey Mantle having a bad day at Yankee Stadium, gelatin silver print, June 20, 1965, printed later under Dominis' supervision and signed by the photographer on the recto, 16 x 20 in. This is as good as it gets. The Type System has a number of serious limitations, including that it has nothing to say about a print's quality. There is a world of difference between a poor-quality news photograph printed by an anonymous darkroom technician and one that is exhibition-quality and printed by the photographer himself or under his supervision by a master darkroom printer. The Type System also places no premium on prints signed by the photographer, such as this one. Dominis passed away a decade ago; he will not be signing any more. Posthumous prints are lesser. This particular print was acquired from the LIFE Picture Collection; it was signed; it has provenance. As for the image, as LIFE's Ben Cosgrove put it: "The Dominis picture...remains not just one of the best photos of Mickey Mantle, and not just one of the finest baseball pictures to run in LIFE magazine, but one of the most powerful photographs ever made of a sports hero in decline...Mantle tossing his helmet in disgust after a lousy at-bat distills in a single frame the wounded pride of the inexorably fading athlete." With another collector, I will be listing many of the most important vintage baseball photographs in existence. Taken together, this will constitute the most important offering of baseball photographs since the 1996 Christie's Baseball Magazine sale.
Price: 10000 USD
Location: Miami, Florida
End Time: 2025-01-13T18:15:10.000Z
Shipping Cost: 40 USD
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Item Specifics
All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Sport: Baseball
Player: Mickey Mantle
Year: 1965
Size: 16x20in.
Original/Reproduction: Original
Team-Baseball: New York Yankees
Vintage: Yes
