Swann’s Thursday, October 17 sale of Classic & Contemporary Photographs featured a broad range of photographic material including works by Edward S. Curtis, Irving Penn, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Dorothea Lange and W. Eugene Smith.
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Our October 17 sale of Classic & Contemporary Photographs features an impressive selection of portraiture from the last two centuries. The most significant is Irving Penn’s 1960, printed 1978, platinum-palladium print, Cuzco Children. Here Daile Kaplan, the house’s Vice President and Director of Photographs & Photobooks, touches on Penn’s practice and the making of the image.
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Featured photographers include: Walead Beshty, John Divola, Seydou Keïta, Richard Misrach, Vik Muniz, Andres Serrano and Joel Sternfeld. A headliner among the rare photobook offerings is a 1950s–1972 Edward Ruscha archive featuring a signed first edition of his Twentysix Gasoline Stations—as well as other signed artist’s books, a signed lithograph Have a Soup Souper Season, ephemeral material, and a Polaroid.
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…
Our Illustration Art auction on January 22 features a section of works by cartoonists and cover artists from The New Yorker magazine. As the January catalogue is sent off to…
Left: Ormond Gigli, Girls In the Windows, N.Y.C., 1960. Right: Ormond Gigli, Famous Ford Models, 1966. Fashion photography skirts the boundaries of high art. Many of the most well known…
Irving Penn is associated with fine photographs of fashionable women. An innovative artist and master technician, Penn recognized that editorial photography was but one form of representation and moved effortlessly…
