Photographs & Photobooks
Records & Results: Images & Objects: Photographs & Photobooks
On Thursday, April 20, our sale ofImages & Objects: Photographs & Photobooks set multiple records for early …
William Bradford & The Arctic Regions
The following are notes from the catalogue for our April 20 sale of Images & Objects: Photographs & Photoboo…
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…
Danny Lyon & New Photojournalism
The Photographs & Photobooks department contributed to this post on Danny Lyon’s eponymous portfolio in ou…
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…
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…
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…
Vernacular Imagery, Photobooks & Fine Photographs
Swann’s second sale devoted to Vernacular Photography showed the strength of this growing segment of the photo…
The Hall-Harte Archive of Suffragist Photographs
We are delighted to offer a suffragist archive of rare and important photographs documenting “The Li…
O. Winston Link: A Turbulent Past
O. Winston Link’s photographs have infused Swann’s Photograph Department auctions with a consistent, quiet pow…
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…
Records & Results: Vernacular Photographs
Last week Swann Galleries held an auction devoted to Vernacular Photography, which was the first sale of its kind. &…