Title: PHOTOGRAPHIC LITERATURE & PHOTOGRAPHS
Date: December 11, 2008
Time: 10:30 AM & 2:30 PM
Exhibition: Saturday, December 6, 10-4
Monday, December 8, 10-6
Tuesday, December 9, 10-6
Wednesday, December 10, 10-6
Contact Person: Daile Kaplan
dkaplan@swanngalleries.com

The Photographic Literature & Photographs auction contained many rare works by noted artists, as well as ephemeral items, such as a complete 50 issue run of the celebrated publication Visionaire, 1991-2007, which sold for $24,000 (see top illustration).
Other highlights included Vernacular, a picture archive containing more than 20,000 abstract and architectural photographs, 1950s-1970s, $24,000 (second illustration); Mr. and Mrs. Woodman by Man Ray, with 27 original photographs, one of 50 numbered copies, signed, The Netherlands, 1970, $16,800 (third illustration); Paris, 80 Photographies de Moï Ver by Moï Ver, first edition, one of 100 numbered copies, Paris, 1931, $15,600 (fourth illustration); and Numbers 1, 2 and 3 of Provoke, Tokyo, 1968-69, $12,000 (last illustration).