Lot 322
322 •(FEMALE WRESTLING)
Three complete sets (with more than 200 photographs) of women's wrestling from the visionary company California Amazon, founded by Juldell du Long, featuring her and other figures.
The sets include Judell du Long vs. Linda Schultz (59 silver prints in the series + one duplicate and an extra photograph, 1974), Nancy Lee Skarvan vs. Susan Skarvan (80 photographs in the series, 1978), and Liz Meles vs. Cindy Brooks (70 in the series and one extra photograph, 1979). Each set is accompanied by the original colorful description of the fight with image-by-image captions (the first is a first-person narrative by du Long). Silver (61) and chromogenic prints, the images each measuring approximately 5x3½ inches (12.7x8.9 cm.), and the reverse, each with a number in the negative (or occasionally hand-applied), the "extra" prints with one of du Long's hand stamps and the first with her notations, in ink. 1974-79
[2,000/3,000]