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Gordon Converse (American, 1921-1999)
Lyndon B. Johnson, Two Days After JFK's Assassination, 1963
Gelatin silver
9-7/8 x 13-1/2 inches (25.1 x 34.3 cm)
Photographer's stamp on verso.

Auction 5358 | Lot: 73334 | Jun 5, 2018

Sold For: $2,000.00

Gordon Converse (American, 1921-1999)
Running to the Light, 1959
Gelatin silver
14 x 11 inches (35.6 x 27.9 cm)
Dated in pencil mount verso.

This lot is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the editor of The Christian Science Monitor, Mark Sappenfield.

Auction 5358 | Lot: 73329 | Jun 5, 2018

Sold For: $1,500.00

Gordon Converse (American, 1921-1999)
Statue of Liberty, New York City, 1954
Gelatin silver
12-7/8 x 9-7/8 inches (32.7 x 25.1 cm)
Titled and dated in ink, with the photographer's stamp on verso.
With certificate of authenticity signed by the editor of The Christian Science Monitor, Mark Sappenfield.

Converse's photographs began appearing in the Christian Science Monitor during World War II while he was serving as a combat photographer in the southwest Pacific with the US Navy. He joined the Monitor's staff the day he left the Navy and spent the next 40 years traveling across the U.S. and to over 120 countries on assignment. He would become the newspaper's chief photographer and photo editor.
Converse was a pioneer in the use of 35mm cameras and natural light for newspaper photography. Among the more than 50 awards he received, he was named Newspaper-Magazine Photographer of the Year in 1959 by the National Press Photographers Association, and twice received the Brotherhood Award of the National Conference of Christians and Jews as well as numerous awards from the Boston Press Photographers Association.
Two books have been published on his photographs:
All Mankind: Photographers from The Christian Science Monitor, The Christian Science Monitor Publishing Society, 1983
Reflections in Light: Gordon N. Converse, The work of a photojournalist, The Christian Science Monitor Publishing Society, 1989

Auction 5298 | Lot: 73103 | May 18, 2017

Sold For: $875.00

Gordon Converse (American, 1921-1999)
Miyajima Island, off Hiroshima, Japan, 1970
Gelatin silver
9-7/8 x 12-7/8 inches (25.1 x 32.7 cm)
Titled and dated in ink, with various pencil notations, and the photographer's stamp on verso.
With certificate of authenticity signed by the editor of The Christian Science Monitor, Mark Sappenfield.

Converse's photographs began appearing in the Christian Science Monitor during World War II while he was serving as a combat photographer in the southwest Pacific with the US Navy. He joined the Monitor's staff the day he left the Navy and spent the next 40 years traveling across the U.S. and to over 120 countries on assignment. He would become the newspaper's chief photographer and photo editor.
Converse was a pioneer in the use of 35mm cameras and natural light for newspaper photography. Among the more than 50 awards he received, he was named Newspaper-Magazine Photographer of the Year in 1959 by the National Press Photographers Association, and twice received the Brotherhood Award of the National Conference of Christians and Jews as well as numerous awards from the Boston Press Photographers Association.
Two books have been published on his photographs:
All Mankind: Photographers from The Christian Science Monitor, The Christian Science Monitor Publishing Society, 1983
Reflections in Light: Gordon N. Converse, The work of a photojournalist, The Christian Science Monitor Publishing Society, 1989

Auction 5298 | Lot: 73097 | May 18, 2017

Sold For: $875.00

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$1,312 or more

Gordon Converse (American, 1921-1999)
Nepalese walk under huge tree in mountains, Pokhara, Nepal, 1964
Gelatin silver
10 x 13 inches (25.4 x 33 cm)
Titled and dated in ink, and indistinctly inscribed in pencil, with the photographer's stamp on verso.
With certificate of authenticity signed by the editor of The Christian Science Monitor, Mark Sappenfield.

Converse's photographs began appearing in the Christian Science Monitor during World War II while he was serving as a combat photographer in the southwest Pacific with the US Navy. He joined the Monitor's staff the day he left the Navy and spent the next 40 years traveling across the U.S. and to over 120 countries on assignment. He would become the newspaper's chief photographer and photo editor.
Converse was a pioneer in the use of 35mm cameras and natural light for newspaper photography. Among the more than 50 awards he received, he was named Newspaper-Magazine Photographer of the Year in 1959 by the National Press Photographers Association, and twice received the Brotherhood Award of the National Conference of Christians and Jews as well as numerous awards from the Boston Press Photographers Association.
Two books have been published on his photographs:
All Mankind: Photographers from The Christian Science Monitor, The Christian Science Monitor Publishing Society, 1983
Reflections in Light: Gordon N. Converse, The work of a photojournalist, The Christian Science Monitor Publishing Society, 1989

Auction 191729 | Lot: 11029 | Jul 19, 2017

Sold For: $875.00

Gordon Converse (American, 1921-1999)
Portraits of Norman Rockwell in his studio, Stockbridge, MA (three photographs), 1970
Gelatin silver
the largest print measures 13-1/2 x 10-1/2 inches, and the other two measure 9-1/2 x 5-5/8 inches and 9-3/8 x 5-5/8 inches
One titled in ink and two with the photographer's stamp on verso.
Each with a certificate of authenticity signed by the editor of The Christian Science Monitor, Mark Sappenfield.

Converse's photographs began appearing in the Christian Science Monitor during World War II while he was serving as a combat photographer in the southwest Pacific with the US Navy. He joined the Monitor's staff the day he left the Navy and spent the next 40 years traveling across the U.S. and to over 120 countries on assignment. He would become the newspaper's chief photographer and photo editor.
Converse was a pioneer in the use of 35mm cameras and natural light for newspaper photography. Among the more than 50 awards he received, he was named Newspaper-Magazine Photographer of the Year in 1959 by the National Press Photographers Association, and twice received the Brotherhood Award of the National Conference of Christians and Jews as well as numerous awards from the Boston Press Photographers Association.
Two books have been published on his photographs:
All Mankind: Photographers from The Christian Science Monitor, The Christian Science Monitor Publishing Society, 1983
Reflections in Light: Gordon N. Converse, The work of a photojournalist, The Christian Science Monitor Publishing Society, 1989

(Total: 3 Items)

Auction 5298 | Lot: 73102 | May 18, 2017

Sold For: $750.00

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$1,125 or more

Gordon Converse (American, 1921-1999)
China - Time of Change, 1980
Gelatin silver
10-1/2 x 13-1/2 inches (26.7 x 34.3 cm)
Dated and annotated 'The friendly and curious faces of the people in Wuhan - we were the first visitors from a foreign land' in ink, with exhibition label affixed to mount verso.
With certificate of authenticity signed by the editor of The Christian Science Monitor, Mark Sappenfield.

Converse's photographs began appearing in the Christian Science Monitor during World War II while he was serving as a combat photographer in the southwest Pacific with the US Navy. He joined the Monitor's staff the day he left the Navy and spent the next 40 years traveling across the U.S. and to over 120 countries on assignment. He would become the newspaper's chief photographer and photo editor.
Converse was a pioneer in the use of 35mm cameras and natural light for newspaper photography. Among the more than 50 awards he received, he was named Newspaper-Magazine Photographer of the Year in 1959 by the National Press Photographers Association, and twice received the Brotherhood Award of the National Conference of Christians and Jews as well as numerous awards from the Boston Press Photographers Association.
Two books have been published on his photographs:
All Mankind: Photographers from The Christian Science Monitor, The Christian Science Monitor Publishing Society, 1983
Reflections in Light: Gordon N. Converse, The work of a photojournalist, The Christian Science Monitor Publishing Society, 1989

Auction 5298 | Lot: 73104 | May 18, 2017

Sold For: $687.50

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$1,031 or more

Gordon Converse (American, 1921-1999)
School Days, Newton, MA, USA, circa 1960
Gelatin silver
13-1/4 x 10-1/2 inches (33.7 x 26.7 cm)
Signed in pencil mount verso.
With certificate of authenticity signed by the editor of The Christian Science Monitor, Mark Sappenfield.

Converse's photographs began appearing in the Christian Science Monitor during World War II while he was serving as a combat photographer in the southwest Pacific with the US Navy. He joined the Monitor's staff the day he left the Navy and spent the next 40 years traveling across the U.S. and to over 120 countries on assignment. He would become the newspaper's chief photographer and photo editor.
Converse was a pioneer in the use of 35mm cameras and natural light for newspaper photography. Among the more than 50 awards he received, he was named Newspaper-Magazine Photographer of the Year in 1959 by the National Press Photographers Association, and twice received the Brotherhood Award of the National Conference of Christians and Jews as well as numerous awards from the Boston Press Photographers Association.
Two books have been published on his photographs:
All Mankind: Photographers from The Christian Science Monitor, The Christian Science Monitor Publishing Society, 1983
Reflections in Light: Gordon N. Converse, The work of a photojournalist, The Christian Science Monitor Publishing Society, 1989

Auction 5298 | Lot: 73096 | May 18, 2017

Sold For: $625.00

Gordon Converse (American, 1921-1999)
Huge water towers spring high above the sand dunes near Kuwait, 1974
Gelatin silver
10-7/8 x 12-7/8 inches (27.7 x 32.7 cm)
Titled and dated in ink, with the photographer's stamp on verso.
With certificate of authenticity signed by the editor of The Christian Science Monitor, Mark Sappenfield.

Converse's photographs began appearing in the Christian Science Monitor during World War II while he was serving as a combat photographer in the southwest Pacific with the US Navy. He joined the Monitor's staff the day he left the Navy and spent the next 40 years traveling across the U.S. and to over 120 countries on assignment. He would become the newspaper's chief photographer and photo editor.
Converse was a pioneer in the use of 35mm cameras and natural light for newspaper photography. Among the more than 50 awards he received, he was named Newspaper-Magazine Photographer of the Year in 1959 by the National Press Photographers Association, and twice received the Brotherhood Award of the National Conference of Christians and Jews as well as numerous awards from the Boston Press Photographers Association.
Two books have been published on his photographs:
All Mankind: Photographers from The Christian Science Monitor, The Christian Science Monitor Publishing Society, 1983
Reflections in Light: Gordon N. Converse, The work of a photojournalist, The Christian Science Monitor Publishing Society, 1989

Auction 5298 | Lot: 73105 | May 18, 2017

Sold For: $625.00

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$938 or more

Gordon Converse (American, 1921-1999)
Wonders of Egypt, Cairo, 1965
Gelatin silver
9-7/8 x 12-7/8 inches (25.1 x 32.7 cm)
Titled and dated in ink, with the photographer's stamp on verso.
With certificate of authenticity signed by the editor of The Christian Science Monitor, Mark Sappenfield.

Converse's photographs began appearing in the Christian Science Monitor during World War II while he was serving as a combat photographer in the southwest Pacific with the US Navy. He joined the Monitor's staff the day he left the Navy and spent the next 40 years traveling across the U.S. and to over 120 countries on assignment. He would become the newspaper's chief photographer and photo editor.
Converse was a pioneer in the use of 35mm cameras and natural light for newspaper photography. Among the more than 50 awards he received, he was named Newspaper-Magazine Photographer of the Year in 1959 by the National Press Photographers Association, and twice received the Brotherhood Award of the National Conference of Christians and Jews as well as numerous awards from the Boston Press Photographers Association.
Two books have been published on his photographs:
All Mankind: Photographers from The Christian Science Monitor, The Christian Science Monitor Publishing Society, 1983
Reflections in Light: Gordon N. Converse, The work of a photojournalist, The Christian Science Monitor Publishing Society, 1989

Auction 5298 | Lot: 73092 | May 18, 2017

Sold For: $625.00

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$938 or more

Gordon Converse (American, 1921-1999)
Cobblestone paths criss-cross the city of Luxembourg, 1961
Gelatin silver
12-7/8 x 9-7/8 inches (32.7 x 25.1 cm)
Titled and dated in ink, with the photographer's stamp on verso.
With certificate of authenticity signed by the editor of The Christian Science Monitor, Mark Sappenfield.

Converse's photographs began appearing in the Christian Science Monitor during World War II while he was serving as a combat photographer in the southwest Pacific with the US Navy. He joined the Monitor's staff the day he left the Navy and spent the next 40 years traveling across the U.S. and to over 120 countries on assignment. He would become the newspaper's chief photographer and photo editor.
Converse was a pioneer in the use of 35mm cameras and natural light for newspaper photography. Among the more than 50 awards he received, he was named Newspaper-Magazine Photographer of the Year in 1959 by the National Press Photographers Association, and twice received the Brotherhood Award of the National Conference of Christians and Jews as well as numerous awards from the Boston Press Photographers Association.
Two books have been published on his photographs:
All Mankind: Photographers from The Christian Science Monitor, The Christian Science Monitor Publishing Society, 1983
Reflections in Light: Gordon N. Converse, The work of a photojournalist, The Christian Science Monitor Publishing Society, 1989

Auction 5298 | Lot: 73100 | May 18, 2017

Sold For: $625.00

Gordon Converse (American, 1921-1999)
Old Jerusalem, December 29, 1972
Gelatin silver
13-1/4 x 9-3/4 inches (33.7 x 24.8 cm)
Titled and dated in ink, with 'TCSM Boston' stamp, and typed caption label affixed to mount verso.
With certificate of authenticity signed by the editor of The Christian Science Monitor, Mark Sappenfield.

Converse's photographs began appearing in the Christian Science Monitor during World War II while he was serving as a combat photographer in the southwest Pacific with the US Navy. He joined the Monitor's staff the day he left the Navy and spent the next 40 years traveling across the U.S. and to over 120 countries on assignment. He would become the newspaper's chief photographer and photo editor.
Converse was a pioneer in the use of 35mm cameras and natural light for newspaper photography. Among the more than 50 awards he received, he was named Newspaper-Magazine Photographer of the Year in 1959 by the National Press Photographers Association, and twice received the Brotherhood Award of the National Conference of Christians and Jews as well as numerous awards from the Boston Press Photographers Association.
Two books have been published on his photographs:
All Mankind: Photographers from The Christian Science Monitor, The Christian Science Monitor Publishing Society, 1983
Reflections in Light: Gordon N. Converse, The work of a photojournalist, The Christian Science Monitor Publishing Society, 1989

Auction 5298 | Lot: 73101 | May 18, 2017

Sold For: $625.00

Make Offer to Owner
$938 or more

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