June 17, 2019Daile KaplanPride Notes from the Catalogue: Hank O’Neal & Allen Ginsberg Read more about 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 Fifth Avenue each year. But in its earliest days, the celebration was a much smaller event… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Photographer Lewis Hine & The Invention of the Photo Story January 29, 2018 Photographs & Photobooks Photographer Lewis Hine & The Invention of the Photo Story Daile Kaplan Reflects on Lewis Hine’s Legacy Swann Vice President and Director of Photographs & Photobooks Daile Kaplan is the preeminent scholar of Lewis Hine. Her books on his work… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Identifying Types of Photographic Prints August 11, 2017 Photographs & Photobooks Identifying Types of Photographic Prints Our Photographs & Photobooks department has put together a cheat sheet for identifying some of the more common types of photographs we handle. A cyanotype print is made by… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Danny Lyon & New Photojournalism April 7, 2017 Photographs & Photobooks Danny Lyon & New Photojournalism The Photographs & Photobooks department contributed to this post on Danny Lyon’s eponymous portfolio in our April 20 auction of Images & Objects: Photographs & Photobooks. The New Journalism movement… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Edgar Allan Poe: Birthday & A Lost Photograph January 19, 2017 Photographs & Photobooks 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 lot in our upcoming sale of Icons & Images: Photographs… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about The Short & Riveting History of Zeppelins, as Told Through Posters October 20, 2016 Vintage Posters The Short & Riveting History of Zeppelins, as Told Through Posters The annual Rare & Important Travel Posters sale demonstrates the diversity of locomotive options available in the twentieth century. In anticipation of the October 27 auction, Associate Cataloguer & Administrator… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Records & Results: African-American Fine Art October 12, 2016 African-American Fine Art Records & Results: African-American Fine Art Our much-anticipated fall sale of African-American Fine Art was last Thursday, October 6. Works sold to a packed room, in addition to fierce competition over the phone and online. Eight… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about A Monumental Collection: Early Adventure Literature from the Estate of Timothy Treacy October 6, 2016 Early Printed Books A Monumental Collection: Early Adventure Literature from the Estate of Timothy Treacy This year we are honored to offer material from the collection of Timothy Treacy. So prolific was Treacy as a collector that material from his estate can be found in multiple… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Notes from the Catalogue: Four of our Favorite Current Artists September 21, 2016 African-American Fine Art Notes from the Catalogue: Four of our Favorite Current Artists Collecting the work of current artists provides a link to the contemporary creative community, even if the piece was created decades ago. Here are four of our favorite working artists, selected from our October… Share Facebook Twitter
May 15, 2015 Photographs & Photobooks Notes From the Catalogue: Berenice Abbott Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) moved to New York City’s Greenwich Village from the midwest in 1918 to live in its now legendary community of artists, radicals, writers and bohemians. There she… Share Facebook Twitter
December 3, 2014 Photographs & Photobooks The Hall-Harte Archive of Suffragist Photographs We are delighted to offer a suffragist archive of rare and important photographs documenting “The Liberty Bell Tour, Votes for Women.” The march was organized by Louise Hall and her life-partner Ethel… Share Facebook Twitter
June 27, 2014 Photographs & Photobooks Daile Kaplan & W.M. Hunt Go to Arles Daile Kaplan, director of Swann’s Photographs Department, and W.M. Hunt, photo collector, author and Swann friend, are exhibiting collections at the Rencontres d’Arles photography show in France. For decades Daile has… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Moneta Sleet, Jr. and Coretta Scott King May 5, 2014 African-American Fine 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 Coretta Scott King, with daughter Bernice, at the funeral… Share Facebook Twitter
April 17, 2014 Photographs & Photobooks Photographs at Play: Bill Hunt on the Morgan’s Photography Exhibition Celebrated photography collector and author–and Swann friend–Bill Hunt has written a wonderful review of the Morgan Library’s A Collective Invention: Photographs at Play show–the first mounted by their newly appointed Curator… Share Facebook Twitter
April 15, 2014 Photographs & Photobooks Avery Willard Model Visits Swann New discoveries are often made during our auction previews. Sometimes a guest will identify a place depicted in a work of art, or recognize a name in an inscription. One… Share Facebook Twitter
March 28, 2014 Photographs & Photobooks Gay New York Among the highlights of our April 17 auction of Vernacular Photography is a small archive of photographs and ephemera relating to transvestism and gay rights in New York City from… Share Facebook Twitter
October 8, 2013 Photographs & Photobooks A 21st Century Tintype Deborah Rogal, Senior Specialist in Swann’s Photographs Department, contributed this post. Recently I was lucky enough to visit New York City’s Center for Alternative Photography to have my tintype portrait… Share Facebook Twitter
June 28, 2013 Photographs & Photobooks Bert Stern Remembered We were saddened to learn of photographer Bert Stern’s death this week. Stern successfully worked in the fashion and advertising worlds, creating numerous award-winning ads, magazine covers, films… 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
August 24, 2010 Photographs & Photobooks 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 reported to have been taken by esteemed photographer Ansel Adams, many questions have popped… Share Facebook Twitter
March 16, 2010 Photographs & Photobooks Alfred Stieglitz, Going Home by Ferry In this enchanting photograph of the Staten Island Ferry by Alfred Stieglitz, part of the Stephen L. White Photograph Collection at auction March 23rd, we share the gaze of the… Share Facebook Twitter
March 8, 2010 Photographs & Photobooks Bill Clinton’s American Dream “I believe in the American Dream. I have lived it. Where else could an ordinary boy from Hope, AK grow up to become President?” So writes former President Bill Clinton… Share Facebook Twitter
December 3, 2009 Photographs & Photobooks The Photobook and Conceptual Art Sol LeWitt, Autobiography, illustrated with more than 1,000 reproductions of LeWitt’s sequential photographs of his apartment and possessions, first edition, New York, 1980. Estimate $1,500 to $2,500. Conceptual Art first… Share Facebook Twitter
December 2, 2009 Photographs & Photobooks Ansel Adams’s ‘Moonrise’ at Auction Next Week Ansel Adams’s position in the pantheon of master photographers is assured by his magisterial studies of the American landscape. Swann is pleased to offer Moonrise Over Hernandez in two iterations—a… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about William Henry Fox Talbot: Father of Modern Photography October 13, 2009 Photographs & Photobooks William Henry Fox Talbot: Father of Modern Photography Swann’s October 22 Photographs auction offers several salted paper prints by William Henry Fox Talbot, which date from the early days of photography. Depicted in lush brown tones and compelling… Share Facebook Twitter
October 5, 2009 Photographs & Photobooks Diane Arbus and the American Art Scene Among the highlights in our October 22 auction of Photographs & Photographic Literature are portraits by Diane Arbus of key figures in the American Art Scene for a 1966 story… Share Facebook Twitter
September 16, 2009 Photographs & Photobooks Cornelius Marion Battey Photographic Portraits Discovered Our October 8th African-American Fine Art auction marks the first time that early photographer Cornelius Marion Battey’s photographic portraits will come to auction. These photographs were recently discovered in the… Share Facebook Twitter