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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…
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…
Identifying Types of Photographic Prints
Our Photographs & Photobooks department has put together a cheat sheet for identifying some of the more common t…
Danny Lyon & New Photojournalism
The Photographs & Photobooks department contributed to this post on Danny Lyon’s eponymous portfolio in ou…
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…
The Hall-Harte Archive of Suffragist Photographs
We are delighted to offer a suffragist archive of rare and important photographs documenting “The Li…
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 …
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…
Gay New York
Among the highlights of our April 17, 2014 auction of Vernacular Photography is a small archive of photographs and e…
Andy Warhol’s Index Book
Finely packaged and replete with surprises, Andy Warhol’s Index (Book), included in Thursday’s Important Photographs…
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…