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Auction Highlights: Fine Photographs — October 31, 2024

This October Fine Photographs auction will center photography as it developed and impacted the American West as well…

Notes from the Catalogue: Hank O’Neal & Allen Ginsberg

The Gay Day Archive   Today, at least a million spectators line the Pride parade route along Fif…

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Photographer Lewis Hine & The Invention of the Photo Story

Daile Kaplan Reflects on Lewis Hine’s Legacy Lewis Wickes Hine was one of the most important social documentar…

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Identifying Types of Photographic Prints

Our Photographs & Photobooks department has put together a cheat sheet for identifying some of the more common t…

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Danny Lyon & New Photojournalism

The Photographs & Photobooks department contributed to this post on Danny Lyon’s eponymous portfolio in ou…

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Edgar Allan Poe: Birthday & A Lost Photograph

Today, on what would be Edgar Allan Poe’s 207th birthday, we take a look at an exceedingly rare and unusual lo…

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The Hall-Harte Archive of Suffragist Photographs

We are delighted to offer a suffragist archive of rare and important photographs documenting “The Li…

African American Art

Moneta Sleet, Jr. and Coretta Scott King

On this date in 1969, Moneta Sleet, Jr. won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for this image of a mourning …

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Avery Willard Model Visits Swann

New discoveries are often made during our auction previews. Sometimes a guest will identify a place depicted in a wo…

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Gay New York

Among the highlights of our April 17, 2014 auction of Vernacular Photography is a small archive of photographs and e…

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Andy Warhol’s Index Book

Finely packaged and replete with surprises, Andy Warhol’s Index (Book), included in Thursday’s Important Photographs…

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Daile Kaplan on Ansel Adams & the Value of a Photograph

With the unfolding story surrounding a box of photographic negatives discovered in California, which were originally…