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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
