The images in lots 117 and 118 were produced by Alfred Eisenstaedt and Irving Penn during their time as part of the Famous Photographers School, founded in 1961. The school which counted ten photographic greats of the time (Richard Avedon, Philippe Halsman and Bert Stern among them) as its conveyers of the trade, was created to help its students achieve the standard and quality of photographs that its mentors produced continuously. Each photographer bought his own individual skills to the task whether they were more familiar with commercial or editorial photography or perhaps specifically known for a particular genre such as still-life or portraiture. What is incredibly interesting and fascinating about these works is the unique chance to have an exclusive insight in to the way these bastions of the medium operated; how exactly they viewed through the camera lens and how the sequential frame inevitably amounts to so much. From these surviving, carefully composed lessons prepared for their students, we are gifted an opportunity to understand visually, step by step, how craftsmen like Eisenstaedt and Penn came to deliver such exquisite works that people have enjoyed for decades ever since.