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October 19, 2010
2:00 PM
FINE PHOTOGRAPHS & SELECT PHOTOBOOKS

December 9, 2010

IMPORTANT PHOTOBOOKS & PHOTOGRAPHS


wann regularly conducts auctions devoted to Photographs. Our sales feature works by classical photographers, such as Edward Curtis and Ansel Adams, prints by the photojournalist Lewis Hine, and pictures by contemporary artists Nan Goldin, Larry Clark, and Robert Mapplethorpe.

Our Photographic Literature auctions, which highlight scarce photobooks by 20th-century photographers, attract collectors worldwide. Swann is the only auction house in the world that conducts semi-annual Photographic Literature sales, and has set the standard for this material.

Swann also offers daguerreotypes, Civil War views, studies of western outlaws, Native-Americana, African-Americana, and vernacular photography. Whether you focus is historical imagery, rare vintage photographs, or modern prints, our friendly staff will walk you through the process of buying (or selling) at auction.

 



Nobuyoshi Araki's four volume set of notebooks, ABCD, one of 20 copies signed and numbered by Araki, New York, 2003, sold on May 14, 2009 for $10,800.



Edward S. Curtis' Three Chiefs, Piegan, unique, mural-size toned silver print, 1900, sold on May 14, 2009 for $24,000.



Edward Weston's Dunes at Oceano, silver print, 1936 sold on May 14, 2009 for $72,000.



Minor White, Windowsill Daydreaming, silver print, 1958, printed mid 1960s, sold on May 14, 2009 for a record $26,400



Francis Bedford's Photographic Pictures Made by Mr. Francis Bedford During the Tour in the East, suite of three albums, London, 1862, sold on February 19, 2009 for a record $132,000.



Dave Heath's Vengeful Sister, Chicago, silver print, 1956 sold on February 19, 2009 for a record $19,200.

 

Contact the Specialists

Daile Kaplan, Director
212-254-4710 ext.21
dkaplan@swanngalleries.com

Jennifer O'Neil
212-254-4710 ext. 64
joneil@swanngalleries.com

Deborah Rogal
212-254-4710 ext. 55
drogal@swanngalleries.com
PHOTOGRAPHIC LITERATURE & IMPORTANT PHOTOGRAPHS
May 20, 2010
The two-part auction includeded Photographic Literature by Gordon Matta-Clark and Alexey Brodovitch and Important Photographs by Brodovitch, Edward Weston and Sally Mann.



THE STEPHEN L. WHITE PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION
March 23, 2010
Featured a remarkable selection of images depicting aspects of the American Dream from the collection of Stephen White.



FINE PHOTOGRAPHS
March 23, 2010
The second part of the sale contained diverse photographs from various owners, including works by Edward Curtis, Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and O. Winston Link.



PHOTOGRAPHIC LITERATURE & FINE PHOTOGRAPHS
December 08, 2009
A two-part auction of Photographic Literature & Fine Photographs that offered many rare and museum-worthy works. Of special note was a vintage print of Ansel Adams’s Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, which brought $360,000.



PHOTOGRAPHS & PHOTOGRAPHIC LITERATURE
October 22, 2009
Featured a rich selection of historically significant works including Chicago, a winter landscape by Harry Callahan, 1950s, printed 1970s, which sold for $18,000 (detail shown).


Learn about The Art of the Photobook, A Tradition at Swann. Click book cover to download a PDF.