October 22, 2019Kelsie JankowskiPhotographs & Photobooks Edward S. Curtis & Irving Penn Shine in Fall 2019 Classic & Contemporary Photographs Read more about Edward S. Curtis & Irving Penn Shine in Fall 2019 Classic & Contemporary Photographs 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. Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about The Making of an Image: Irving Penn’s Cuzco Children October 2, 2019 Photographs & Photobooks The Making of an Image: Irving Penn’s Cuzco Children 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. Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Fall 2019: Classic & Contemporary Photographs August 29, 2019 Photographs & Photobooks Fall 2019: Classic & Contemporary Photographs 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. Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Upcoming Highlights – Photographs: Art & Visual Culture January 21, 2019 Photographs & Photobooks Upcoming Highlights – Photographs: Art & Visual Culture At Auction February 21 Complete Catalogue This auction features Robert Frank’s Yom Kippur, East River, New York, 1955, printed 1971; Robert Mapplethorpe’s Roy Cohn, 1981; André Kertész’s signed… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Records & Results: Art & Storytelling: Photographs & Photobooks October 21, 2017 Photographs & Photobooks Records & Results: Art & Storytelling: Photographs & Photobooks On October 19 our sale of Art & Storytelling: Photographs & Photobooks combined works spanning the lifetime of the medium into an auction intended to “highlight the interrelationships between fine art, documentary and… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Introduction to Icons & Images: Fine & Vernacular Photographs September 8, 2015 Photographs & Photobooks Introduction to Icons & Images: Fine & Vernacular Photographs The following introduction was written by Swann Vice President and Director of Photographs & Photobooks Daile Kaplan. The title of our sale reflects the broad range of materials one… Share Facebook Twitter
May 19, 2015 Photographs & Photobooks Notes From the Catalogue: Irving Penn 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… Share Facebook Twitter
December 22, 2014 Illustration Art Who Kissed Santa Claus? The Cover Behind It All 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… Share Facebook Twitter
May 3, 2011 Photographs & Photobooks Fashion Photography: The Opulent and Intimate 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… Share Facebook Twitter
November 30, 2010 Photographs & Photobooks Irving Penn and Alexandra Beller 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… Share Facebook Twitter