ITEM 01 Donation by Don Bartletti Title: High Sierra Horses, Lone Pine, CA Media: Giclee archival pigment print, signed by author 200 GSM matte paper Image Size: 10"x7" Framed: 13"x10" Valued: $400 Starting Bid: $150 Artist Bio: Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist Don Bartletti retired from the Los Angeles Times in 2015 and continues to exhibit, lecture, write and photograph for joy of the discipline, but now, without deadlines. He began his newspaper career in 1972 at the Vista Press, 1 year after his tour of duty in Vietnam. He went on to the Oceanside Blade-Tribune, the San Diego Union-Tribune, before spending 32 years with the L.A. Times on assignments across the U.S. and in 35 countries. The soul of his video and still reporting were social conflicts and the causes and consequences of human migration for survival. In 2003, he was awarded the Pulitzer for Feature Photography about Central American child migration and the 2014 Pulitzer Finalist for video and stills of child migrant farmworkers in Mexico. Bartletti resides in the same home and gardens in Vista for the past 64 years, is married to Diana, has 2 grown children and 4 grandsons. Don Bartletti Website: DonBartlettiPhotography.com Insta: @donbartletti
JANUARY 16, 2020. LONE PINE, CA. Free range horses along Moffat Ranch Road in the Owens Valley near Lone Pine, California, on a cold and windy winter day. Backdropped by the snow-covered Sierras, this is a little north of the Alabama Hills. (Photograph by Don Bartletti)
