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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

June 17, 2019

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…

January 29, 2018

Daile Kaplan Reflects on Lewis Hine’s Legacy Lewis Wickes Hine was one of the most important social documentary photographers of the twentieth century. He spent years…

August 11, 2017

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…

April 7, 2017

The Photographs & Photobooks department contributed to this post on Danny Lyon’s eponymous portfolio in our April 20 auction of Images & Objects: Photographs &…

January 19, 2017

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 &…

December 3, 2014

We are delighted to offer a suffragist archive of rare and important photographs documenting “The Liberty Bell Tour, Votes for Women.” The march was…

May 5, 2014

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 of…

April 15, 2014

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 wonderful…

March 28, 2014

Among the highlights of our April 17, 2014 auction of Vernacular Photography is a small archive of photographs and ephemera relating to cross-dressing and gay rights in New York…