Photographs & Photobooks
#5WomenArtists: Deborah Rogal’s List
We’re jumping into Women’s History Month to offer a week of #5WomenArtists, inspired by the National Museum of…
A Look Inside the Catalogue: The Knowing Eye: Photographs & Photobooks
At Auction April 19 The Knowing Eye: Photographs & Photobooks features a rare vintage print of Alfred Eisenstaed…
Records & Results: Icons & Images: Photographs & Photobooks
We opened the 2018 season with a $1.6M auction of Icons & Images: Photographs & Photobooks on February 15. I…
Cataloguing History’s Darker Moments
In advance of our February 15 auction of Icons & Images: Photographs & Photobooks, we asked Associate Direct…
Photographer Lewis Hine & The Invention of the Photo Story
Daile Kaplan Reflects on Lewis Hine’s Legacy Lewis Wickes Hine was one of the most important social documentar…
Bertha Trujillo: Matadora in Photographs
On May 30, 1968, Bertha Trujillo became the first woman awarded a doctorate of matadorship, the highest technical le…
Records & Results: Art & Storytelling: Photographs & Photobooks
On October 19 our sale of Art & Storytelling: Photographs & Photobooks combined works spanning the lifetime …
Magnum Photographs: 70th Anniversary
Magnum Photos, founded as a cooperative agency in 1947, is perhaps the most well-known photographic collective in th…
Do You Speak Photography?
This post was written by our Vice President and Director of Photographs & Photobooks, Daile Kaplan. Photo…
Black and White All Over: The Riddle of Classical Photography
The following was written by Vice President and Director of Photographs & Photobooks, Daile Kaplan: I lov…
Identifying Types of Photographic Prints
Our Photographs & Photobooks department has put together a cheat sheet for identifying some of the more common t…
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 …