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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;&#039;Nuff_Said, post: 9501, member: 181&quot;]WOW!</p><p><br /></p><p>You all are awesome! Thank you!</p><p><br /></p><p>After AF&#039;s original reply, I was going to just toss these images and write them off as junk. After a bit of research, the inscription verso and hand drawn map appear to be in Wesker&#039;s hand. Not sure who Bert(?) &amp; Kathy(?) are, but it appears these items were addressed to them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, I wasn&#039;t able to ID the sitter in the other image, but I was able to ID the photographer. After taking the photo out of the frame, it is signed at lower right and signed &amp; dated verso: <i><b>&#039;Salmieri&#039;</b></i>&nbsp; &amp;&nbsp; <i><b>&#039;Salmieri 76&#039;</b></i>&nbsp; for &quot;famed&quot; and noted NYC photographer: <i><b>&#039;Stephen Salmieri, Born, 1945&#039;</b></i>.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Salmieri Bio:</b> <i>&quot;Stephen Salmieri artist, Brooklyn. Salmieri came from a family of artists and was recognized early for his mature and sensitive studies of Coney Island. Working in the tradition of many mid-twentieth century independent photographers such as Robert Frank and Lisette Model, Salmieri spent five years documenting the last of the Coney Island environs now undergoing urban gentrification. Salmieri is equally appreciated for his penetrating portrait studies many of which were first published in the New York Times. Truly a master of black and white printing and large format photography, Salmieri&#039;s personal style identifies his work as being unmistakably his own. Although all his work is film based and entirely black and white, many of his images are toned and a selection are hand colored by artist and collaborator Sydnie Michele. His photography has been exhibited in major museum collections in the US and Europe and he is in the permanent collection of MoMA and the Getty Museum. His two popular coffee table books are AMERICAN GRILLES (HBJ) the faces of American cars and CADILLAC: An American Icon (Rizzoli) an idiosyncratic look at American through its automobile culture. Both books were most favorably reviewed and were recipients of major awards including the first American Book Award ever given to a photography book for GRILLES and the AIGA gold medal award for CADILLAC&quot;</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Brooklyn Museum Link:</b> <a href="http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/artists/6699/Stephen_Salmieri" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/artists/6699/Stephen_Salmieri" rel="nofollow">http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/artists/6699/Stephen_Salmieri</a></p><p><br /></p><p><b>This photo by <i>Salmieri </i>was est at $2,000 - $3,000 but it failed to sell</b>: <a href="http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/21246062_radical-chic-stephen-salmieri-1970-leonard-bernstein" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/21246062_radical-chic-stephen-salmieri-1970-leonard-bernstein" rel="nofollow">http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/21246062_radical-chic-stephen-salmieri-1970-leonard-bernstein</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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