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Browsing Tag 20th Century Photographs

January 22, 2025

The February Fine Photographs auction brings together twentieth-century masters in a curated selection of diverse and rare highlights.

December 3, 2024

This December we are pleased to offer more than 100 lots from the Collection of Neil Robert Berzak. Rich in 20th-century masters, this collection features both rare and important…

January 29, 2018

Daile Kaplan Reflects on Lewis Hine’s Legacy Lewis Wickes Hine was one of the most important social documentary photographers of the twentieth century. He spent years…

January 17, 2018

On May 30, 1968, Bertha Trujillo became the first woman awarded a doctorate of matadorship, the highest technical level achieved in bullfighting. The photographs appearing in our…

October 16, 2017

Magnum Photos, founded as a cooperative agency in 1947, is perhaps the most well-known photographic collective in the world. Through the Magnum photographs included in our October…

April 7, 2017

The Photographs & Photobooks department contributed to this post on Danny Lyon’s eponymous portfolio in our April 20 auction of Images & Objects: Photographs &…

October 18, 2016

Edward Ruscha is a pioneer of the American photobook. Between 1962 and 1978 he produced no fewer than sixteen artist’s books, fourteen of which will be offered as a lot in Swann…

October 15, 2014

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…

March 22, 2012

Known for his attention and passion for the technical aspects of print making, Ansel Adams became a consultant for Edwin Land and the Polaroid Corporation in 1948. He tested film…