Photographs & Photobooks

Photographs & Photobooks

Records & Results: Images & Objects: Photographs & Photobooks

On Thursday, April 20, our sale ofImages & Objects: Photographs & Photobooks set multiple records for early …

Photographs & Photobooks

William Bradford & The Arctic Regions

The following are notes from the catalogue for our April 20 sale of Images & Objects: Photographs & Photoboo…

Photographs & Photobooks

Modern Daguerreotypes & More

While we live in a digital age, faced with a tsunami of photographs on all manner of devices, many modern artists ha…

Photographs & Photobooks

Danny Lyon & New Photojournalism

The Photographs & Photobooks department contributed to this post on Danny Lyon’s eponymous portfolio in ou…

Photographs & Photobooks

Edgar Allan Poe: Birthday & A Lost Photograph

Today, on what would be Edgar Allan Poe’s 207th birthday, we take a look at an exceedingly rare and unusual lo…

Photographs & Photobooks

Ed Ruscha: “I Want To Be The Henry Ford of Bookmaking”

Edward Ruscha is a pioneer of the American photobook. Between 1962 and 1978 he produced no fewer than sixteen artist…

Photographs & Photobooks

The First Auction of Photographs in the United States

February 14, 1952   Much has changed over the course of our 75-year history here at Swann Galleries, from new depart…

Photographs & Photobooks

Vernacular Imagery, Photobooks & Fine Photographs

Swann’s second sale devoted to Vernacular Photography showed the strength of this growing segment of the photo…

Photographs & Photobooks

The Hall-Harte Archive of Suffragist Photographs

We are delighted to offer a suffragist archive of rare and important photographs documenting “The Li…

Photographs & Photobooks

O. Winston Link: A Turbulent Past

O. Winston Link’s photographs have infused Swann’s Photograph Department auctions with a consistent, quiet pow…

Photographs & Photobooks

Nick Brandt, Activist-Photographer: “I Stick with Nature”

The delicate condition of the natural world is vividly brought to life by Nick Brandt, who organized the Big Life Fo…

Photographs & Photobooks

Records & Results: Vernacular Photographs

Last week Swann Galleries held an auction devoted to Vernacular Photography, which was the first sale of its kind. &…