1941-2017 US
A.k.a. Robert Emett Seidemann
Bob Seidemann is an American graphic artist and photographer best known for the creation of several album covers and portraits of musicians in the 1960s and 1970s.Seidemann first gained notoriety in 1967 for a photographic interpretation of the Pietà. He reversed the traditional subjects, depicting a mourning male cradling the body of a nude female, with a graphic combination of sexuality and violence.His 1969 "Blind Faith" flush-mounted and signed chromogenic photo print, editioned (17/30), sold at Sotheby's New York 24 June 2014 (lot 20) at $17,500 (with buyer's premium)