Past Auctions

Featuring Dawoud Bey, Margaret Bourke-White & An Early Color Work by Edward Steichen  

Fall 2019 Highlights for Photographs & Photobooks

An Introduction to the Catalogue by Eric Marcus | Highlights at a Glance

Upcoming Highlights

Upcoming Highlights

Upcoming Highlights

An array of fine and vernacular photographs includes a rare daguerreotype portrait by Gustave Le Gray, alongside important works by Ansel Adams, Walker Evans and Alfred Eisenstaedt.

Upcoming Highlights

Vernacular and fine art photographs span the lifetime of the medium in this sale, with highlights by Arbus, Ernst, Hujar and Muybridge.

Important twentieth-century photographs span Edward S. Curtis to Robert Frank, alongside a premier selection of photobooks and vernacular images.

This sale boasts photographs from the early days of the medium to NASA missions. Contemporary works by Nan Goldin, Daido Moriyama and Hiroshi Sugimoto are highlights.

Spanning nearly two centuries of the medium with a focus on narrative, this sale includes highlights by Julia Margaret Cameron, Tracey Moffat and Alfred Stieglitz. Learn more.

Featuring works by Ormond Gigli, Alfred Stieglitz, Man Ray, Wilson A. Bentley and more. Further information here.

This auction highlights photography as a storytelling medium, including works by Ansel Adams, Peter Beard, Dorothea Lange and Sally Mann, among others. More information here.

This sale reflects the broad range of materials one can expect to discover at Swann’s Photographs auctions. More info about the photographs in this sale can be found here.          

Offers vintage and modern prints including fine art, documentary and vernacular photography. Featured is Edward S. Curtis's 20 illustrated text volumes of The North American Indian.

Offers a range of 20th-century vintage, classical and contemporary photographs. Highlights include works by Ansel Adams and Lewis W. Hine and a selection of rare circus photographs by Edward J. Kelty. 

Diverse examples of vernacular photography in this auction include an early photo booth self-portrait of Marilyn Monroe, 19th-century scientific images and more. 

This well-rounded auction features Contemporary images and iconic photos by Modern masters including Ansel Adams, Harry Callahan, Lewis W. Hine, Horst P. Horst and Garry Winogrand, as well as 19th-century photographs and albums.

The first auction devoted to vernacular photography, this sale covers rare albums, commercial images, three-dimensional photo objects and more.