At Auction April 18 Complete Catalogue Our diverse April auction bridges classical and contemporary visual idioms with important work, including Robert Mapplethorpe’s Lisa Lyon, Dorothea Lange’s emotive Korean Child,…
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A Record for Malick Sidibé in Swann Photo SaleVernacular albums of nineteenth-century India bring $30k Our sale of Photographs: Art & Visual Culture on February 21, a curated sale celebrating photographs as physical objects, saw success across the board with contemporary, twentieth-century and…
Lot 325 Arnold Newman, Georgia O’Keeffe, Ghost Ranch, N.M., silver print, 1968. Mirroring our current cultural fascination with reality television, the art world has seen a surge of interest…
Whether applied to fashion or flowers, Irving Penn’s iconic, clean and quietly demonstrative style was wholly his own. Born in 1917 in Plainfield, New Jersey, Penn originally studied drawing, graphics…
Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) moved to New York City’s Greenwich Village from the midwest in 1918 to live in its now legendary community of artists, radicals, writers and bohemians. There she…
Daile Kaplan, Swann Vice President and Director of Photographs & Photobooks, contributed the following post in response to recent questions about Vernacular Photography: Within the past few days, since…
The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is currently on tour with its latest spectacle, Circus XTREME, and a collection of photographs coming up for auction at Swann Galleries…
In the printed catalogue for Swann’s upcoming sale of Fine Photographs, at auction February 19, our Photographs Department profiles some of their favorite photographers. Lot 5: Eadweard Muybridge, Horse and…
