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Daile Kaplan

June 17, 2019|Daile Kaplan|Pride

Notes from the Catalogue: Hank O’Neal & Allen Ginsberg

The Gay Day Archive Today, at least a million spectators line the Pride parade route along Fifth Avenue each year. But in its earliest days, the celebration was a much smaller event…

April 11, 2019 | Photographs & Photobooks

Notes from the Catalogue: Dorothea Lange

Our April 18 sale of Classic & Contemporary Photographs features several of Dorothea Lange‘s iconic photographs from her time documenting for the Farm Security Administration, as well as her travels…

February 12, 2019 | Photographs & Photobooks

In Your Hands or On the Wall: an Appreciation for the Tangible Photograph

Our upcoming sale of Photographs: Art & Visual Culture celebrates photographs as objects. Daile Kaplan, the house’s Director of Photographs & Photobooks, shares her appreciation of the tangible in the…

October 10, 2017 | Photographs & Photobooks

Do You Speak Photography?

This post was written by our Vice President and Director of Photographs & Photobooks, Daile Kaplan. Photography is ubiquitous in visual culture. Whether you prefer contemporary works by Alec…

July 14, 2017 | Photographs & Photobooks

Daile Kaplan on The Thrill of Photographic Discovery

With the recent NPR coverage questioning whether an anonymous photograph actually depicts Amelia Earhart on a wharf in Jaluit Atoll, photography’s role as historic evidence is once again in the…

October 7, 2016 | Photographs & Photobooks

Edward Curtis & Alfred Stieglitz: Two 20th Century Masters

Twentieth century photography didn’t follow one single trend. Instead, new technologies were often used in markedly different ways to convey unique perspectives. We asked Daile Kaplan, our Director of Photographs &…