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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…

October 7, 2024

This October Fine Photographs auction will center photography as it developed and impacted the American West as well as the use of photography in exploration and documentation

January 21, 2019

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,…

December 14, 2018

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…

August 13, 2018

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 to illuminate the…

April 23, 2018

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,…

March 1, 2018

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…

October 21, 2017

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…

April 19, 2017

The following are notes from the catalogue for our April 20 sale of Images & Objects: Photographs & Photobooks.     William Bradford, a celebrated American…