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Browsing Tag Vernacular Photography

April 30, 2025

Aniston Eastes, Inventory Manager — Lot 46: A Suite of 10 Photographs Detailing the Infamous Life and Death of Bonnie & Clyde “You be Bonnie and I’ll be Clyde!” Petite…

March 29, 2023

Spring has just about sprung, and Swann Galleries' resident Americana specialist, and director of the house's books and manuscripts department, is sharing a selection of lots from…

April 1, 2022

The material that passes through Swann on a daily basis ranges in value and interest, sometimes we see an item crop up at auction consistently—a popular print, a highly sought…

February 14, 2022

On February 10, 2022, we held Fine Photographs: Celebrating 70 Years of Photographs at Swann, not only did the sale mark the 70th anniversary of photography auctions at the house…

April 13, 2021

A Little Self(ie) Love Whether you love them or hate them, selfies have become a large part of self-representation in contemporary culture. Though the term selfie tends to refer…

October 27, 2020

“Our market continues to be dynamic and varied. We saw strength in the FSA and other Depression-era photography as well as in other classical material. The bidding was also…

January 10, 2020

Photographs by outstanding American artists headline this auction: Berenice Abbott, Dawoud Bey, Margaret Bourke-White, Harry Callahan, Edward Steichen and Minor White.

October 22, 2019

Swann's Thursday, October 17 sale of Classic & Contemporary Photographs featured a broad range of photographic material including works by Edward S. Curtis, Irving Penn, Henri…

July 1, 2019

A season of firsts. The 2019 spring auction season at Swann Galleries delivered an impressive range of sales, rife with auction premiers and record prices. We started our season…

April 23, 2019

Martín Chambi & Images of South America  Lead Classic & Contemporary Photographs at Swann   Our sale…