Albersheim's 2015 January Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/24/2015
Barney Stein's photographic career began with the Brooklyn Times Union in 1929 and continued for over 50 years in which he developed into an award-winning photojournalist covering sports, celebrities, royalty and the major events of the day.
A chance meeting and subsequent photographic session with Dearie McKeeverMulvey (daughter of one of the Dodgers' owners) led to Barney's hiring as Official Brooklyn Dodgers Photographer in the Spring of 1937. Thus began a lifelong relationship with the family, the team and baseball. His photographs taken from the during the season and at Spring training, captured the joys, disappointments, heart-wrenching losses and jubilant victories of the unpredictable Brooklyn "Bums".
While he had an impish sense of humor and an uncanny ability to convince the great and famous to pose in dramatic and amusing ways, he was also a master of the "moment in time". One second before and one second after the action were not good enough for Barney. He was never one to hesitate and had an instinctive feeling for when to snap the shutter. We offer an original 9.5" x 8" photograph taken by Barney Stein in 1937 with his embossed stamp on the photograph. Sporting News stamp on back. Wow!!!!
Please note that we're showing two images of the back of the photo. The lighter version is representative of the actual back of the photo while the darker version has been enhanced by our scanner so that you can view the stampings in more details.