Title: PHOTOGRAPHIC LITERATURE & FINE PHOTOGRAPHS
Date: May 14, 2009
Time: 10:30 AM & 2:30 PM
Exhibition: Sat., May 9, 10-4
Mon., May 11, 10-6
Tues., May 12, 10-6
Wed., May 13, 10-6
Contact Person: Daile Kaplan
dkaplan@swanngalleries.com

Highlights of Swann's auction of Photographic Literature & Fine Photographs included Edward Weston, Dunes at Oceano, Silver print, 1936, which sold for $72,000 (top); Roy De Carava, Roy De Carava, portfolio with 12 dust-grain photogravures, 1991, which sold for $57,600 (second illustration); Minor White, Windowsill Daydreaming, silver print, 1958, printed mid 1960s, which sold for $26,400 (third illustration); Edward S. Curtis, Three Chiefs, Piegan, unique, mural-size toned print, 1900, which sold for $24,000 (fourth illustration); and Curtis, The Vanishing Race, oversize platinum print, 1904, which sold for $16,800 (bottom).