Title: IMPORTANT 19TH & 20TH CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHS
Date: October 21, 2008
Time: 1:30 PM
Exhibition: Wednesday, October 15, 10-6; Thursday, October 16, 10-8
Friday, October 17, 10-6
Saturday, October 18, 10-4
Monday, October 20, 10-6
Tuesday, October 21, 10-noon
Contact Person: Daile Kaplan
dkaplan@swanngalleries.com

Desirable lots with photographs of exotic lands and people include 75 rare Japanese landscapes, street scenes and views of temples by Felix Beato, the first photographer to devote himself entirely to photographing Asia, circa 1870 (see top illustration). Early images include Julia Margaret Cameron’s Shepherds Keeping Watch by Night, albumen print, 1865-1866 (second illustration). Among highlights from the early 20th century is Edward Weston and Margrethe Mather’s elegant view of The Marion Morgan Dancers, platinum-palladium print, circa 1921 (third illustration). Classic mid-century works include Ansel Adams’s Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada, from Lone Pine, California, silver print, 1944, printed 1978 (fourth illustration); and noteworthy contemporary examples include William Eggleston’s Untitled (Confederate flag), dye-transfer print, 1973, printed 1996 (see final illustration).