January 21, 2019Lauren KristinPhotographs & Photobooks Upcoming Highlights – Photographs: Art & Visual Culture Read more about 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 How to Consign to an Auction December 14, 2018 Auctions 101 How to Consign to an Auction Thinking about selling at auction? Allow us to be of assistance. Swann is a third-generation family business and the oldest specialty auction house in New York City, known for our… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about A Look Inside the Catalogue: Photographs & Photobooks August 13, 2018 Photographs & Photobooks A Look Inside the Catalogue: Photographs & Photobooks At Auction October 18 Complete Catalogue Can cameras capture ghosts? Find out on October 16, from 6 to 8 pm, when writer Allison C. Meier will be at Swann… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Records & Results: The Knowing Eye: Photographs & Photobooks April 23, 2018 Photographs & Photobooks Records & Results: The Knowing Eye: Photographs & Photobooks Our April 19 auction The Knowing Eye: Photographs & Photobooks was led by the only known extant print of River Rouge Plant, Detroit (with Ford signage on freight car), 1947,… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about A Look Inside the Catalogue: The Knowing Eye: Photographs & Photobooks March 1, 2018 Photographs & Photobooks A Look Inside the Catalogue: The Knowing Eye: Photographs & Photobooks At Auction April 19 The Knowing Eye: Photographs & Photobooks features a rare vintage print of Alfred Eisenstaedt’s iconic Premier at La Scala, Milan, circa 1933, and Robert Frank’s quirky Portrait of art… 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 William Bradford & The Arctic Regions April 19, 2017 Photographs & Photobooks William Bradford & The Arctic Regions The following are notes from the catalogue for our April 20 sale of Images & Objects: Photographs & Photobooks. William Bradford, a celebrated American painter, was also a… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Lucien Clergue’s Unpublished Photobook of Picasso February 3, 2017 Photographs & Photobooks Lucien Clergue’s Unpublished Photobook of Picasso A fine example of the photobook as an art object will appear in our February 14 sale: Icons & Images: Photographs & Photobooks. It is the maquette for Clergue’s unpublished book… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Ed Ruscha: “I Want To Be The Henry Ford of Bookmaking” October 18, 2016 Photographs & Photobooks Ed Ruscha: “I Want To Be The Henry Ford of Bookmaking” We asked Oliver Lott from the Photographs department to talk about twentieth century photography’s man of mystery, Ed Ruscha: Edward Ruscha is a pioneer of the American photobook. Between… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Robert Frank and The Americans October 4, 2016 Photographs & Photobooks Robert Frank and The Americans Robert Frank is one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century. Some of his masterpieces will be offered in our October 25 sale, Art & Storytelling: Photographs &… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Records & Results: Icons & Images: Fine & Vernacular Photographs October 26, 2015 Photographs & Photobooks Records & Results: Icons & Images: Fine & Vernacular Photographs The results of our autumn auction, Icons & Images: Fine & Vernacular Photographs, emphasize the magnetism and enduring popularity of iconic imagery with collectors and dealers alike. Over time, icons (such as… Share Facebook Twitter
April 21, 2014 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. Two items led the auction–bringing $22,500 each–and they could not… Share Facebook Twitter
February 19, 2014 Photographs & Photobooks The Photobook Library of Bill Diodato: Provocateurs & Innovators As collector Bill Diodato knows, photography begins with the birth of the photobook. Long before the white wall or editioned print–and more than century before galleries and museums exhibited pictures–photographers… Share Facebook Twitter
November 22, 2013 Photographs & Photobooks Voyeurism & Vulvas: The Cult Photobook Several cult photobooks by Japanese and European photographers in our upcoming December 12 auction examine a topic that has emerged as a new collecting trend: sex and sexuality. Straddling the vast intersection… Share Facebook Twitter
May 23, 2011 Photographs & Photobooks Important Photobooks & Photographs The top lot in Swann Galleries’ Important Photobooks and Photographs auction was A Hungarian Memory, André Kertész’s portfolio of 15 silver prints of the artist’s homeland, which brought $48,000, a record… Share Facebook Twitter
May 17, 2011 Maps & Atlases Pictorial Japan at Swann Galleries Kitagawa Utamaro, A Picture Book, An Abundance of New Leaves (Ehon Wakaba Sakae), circa 1794. Estimate: $1,000 to $1,500. Environmental disasters, both natural and manmade, have defined much of Japan’s… Share Facebook Twitter
December 6, 2010 Photographs & Photobooks Andy Warhol’s Index Book Finely packaged and replete with surprises, Andy Warhol’s Index (Book), included in Thursday’s Important Photographs & Photobooks auction, introduces Warhol’s parallel themes of charming whimsy, and his brilliant upending of… Share Facebook Twitter
October 13, 2010 Photographs & Photobooks Handmade John F. Kennedy Albums As a boy, Robert A. Cumins, now a prominent photojournalist, was fascinated with President John F. Kennedy’s administration. A local newspaperman who knew of Cumins’s interest in JFK passed along… Share Facebook Twitter