The North American Indian by Edward S. Curtis An ambitious photographer’s happenstance meeting on the side of a mountain sets into motion a chain of events that spurs an…
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…
This iconic portrait of Winston Churchill was taken after an impassioned speech the Prime Minister delivered at the Canadian House of Commons in 1941, as England stood alone against the…
Swann’s second sale devoted to Vernacular Photography showed the strength of this growing segment of the photo market, with strong results for esoteric material. The top vernacular lot was…
We are delighted to offer a suffragist archive of rare and important photographs documenting “The Liberty Bell Tour, Votes for Women.” The march was organized by Louise Hall and her life-partner Ethel…
O. Winston Link’s photographs have infused Swann’s Photograph Department auctions with a consistent, quiet power for years, but lot 175 brings a new dramatic force to the October 17 sale. …
The delicate condition of the natural world is vividly brought to life by Nick Brandt, who organized the Big Life Foundation to protect wild animals in East Africa. This British…
