October 14, 2022Deborah RogalPhotographs & Photobooks Romana Javitz: Champion of FSA Photographers Read more about Romana Javitz: Champion of FSA Photographers Romana Javitz was curator of The New York Public Library’s Picture Collection from 1928 to 1968, where she assembled one of the most historically important and artistically significant collections of twentieth-century photographs.
Read more about Fine Photographs: October 20, 2022 Auction Highlights September 27, 2022 Photographs & Photobooks Fine Photographs: October 20, 2022 Auction Highlights A range of exciting photographs includes a vintage 1936 example of Dorothea Lange’s iconic Migrant Mother from the personal collection of the legendary Romana Javitz, who developed the New York…
Read more about JEB & Shelby Sharie Cohen on Photographing the Lesbian Community August 12, 2022 LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History JEB & Shelby Sharie Cohen on Photographing the Lesbian Community the market established with the LGBTQ+ sales. Both photographers speak here in their own words, discussing their approach as well as the transformations they have witnessed as artists.
Read more about Fine Photographs: April 14, 2022 Auction Highlights March 14, 2022 Photographs & Photobooks Fine Photographs: April 14, 2022 Auction Highlights Edward S. Curtis — The North American Indian The April 14 auction will be headlined by the seminal Portfolio I from Edward S. Curtis’ The North American Indian, featuring many of his…
Read more about Danny Lyon’s Civil Rights Photography February 7, 2022 Photographs & Photobooks Danny Lyon’s Civil Rights Photography Related Reading: Do you have photographs by Danny Lyon we should take a look at? Learn about how to consign to an auction, and send us a note about your item.
Read more about Deborah Rogal’s Specialist Picks: 5 Photographs from the 70th Anniversary Sale February 7, 2022 Photographs & Photobooks Deborah Rogal’s Specialist Picks: 5 Photographs from the 70th Anniversary Sale Armed with seven decades of photography history at her disposal, and nearly 20 years in the field, Swann photographs and photobooks director, Deborah Rogal, shares five of her favorite images…
Read more about Fine Photographs: Celebrating 70 Years of Photographs at Swann January 4, 2022 Photographs & Photobooks Fine Photographs: Celebrating 70 Years of Photographs at Swann Over 70 years ago, Swann held the first auction dedicated to photography in the United States. This 1952 photography auction was astonishingly early for a sale devoted to a medium…
Read more about Spotlight on Stephen Shore’s Color Photography October 11, 2021 Photographs & Photobooks Spotlight on Stephen Shore’s Color Photography Stephen Shore’s extensive career has been defined by a quest to discover everyday America through its vernacular architecture and landscape. Ambitious, Shore rose to prominence at a young age. At…
Read more about American Street Photography of the 1940s–50s May 14, 2021 Photographs & Photobooks American Street Photography of the 1940s–50s The roaming photographer, camera slung around her neck or gripped in a hand, walking city streets, sitting in a café, invisible, but watching, capturing, finding enduring, candid, illustrative moments, is…
Read more about 5 Portrait Photographers To Inspire Your Collection March 4, 2021 Photographs & Photobooks 5 Portrait Photographers To Inspire Your Collection Photography is a particularly compelling medium for making portraits. The possibility to render oneself or another in this representational medium is relentlessly appealing, and in any given sale, we see…
Read more about Collection Spotlight: Evelyne Daitz, Trailblazing Photography Gallerist October 9, 2020 Photographs & Photobooks Collection Spotlight: Evelyne Daitz, Trailblazing Photography Gallerist Evelyne Daitz helped to set the foundation for the market and pioneered the ways in which the medium is still considered and collected today. We are honored to be offering numerous works from Daitz’s estate.
Read more about Cataloguing History’s Darker Moments February 12, 2018 Photographs & Photobooks Cataloguing History’s Darker Moments In advance of our February 15 auction of Icons & Images: Photographs & Photobooks, we asked Associate Director Deborah Rogal to talk about the planning that goes into a successful…