Photographs & Photobooks

May 18, 2010

Gordon Matta-Clark, whose work is featured in the Photographic Literature portion of Thursday’s sale, brought an inspired and playful quality to his highly experimental and…

May 6, 2010

Imogen Cunningham’s life-long love for flora, combined with her keen understanding of line, textural contrast and lighting, bring forth the magnolia blossom’s pure…

April 30, 2010

Both sections of the May 20, 2010 Photographic Literature and Important Photographs auction at Swann feature highlight items by Alexey Brodovitch, the late Harper’s…

March 8, 2010

President Bill Clinton discusses his idea of the American Dream in the introduction to our catalogue for The Stephen L. White Photograph Collection.

December 3, 2009

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.…

December 2, 2009

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…

October 16, 2009

Among the highlights in our October 22, 2009 Photographs & Photographic Literature auction is a stunning array of 15 images by social reformer-cum-photographer, Lewis W. Hine.…

October 13, 2009

Swann’s October 22 Photographs auction offers several salted paper prints by William Henry Fox Talbot, which date from the early days of photography. Depicted in lush brown tones…

October 5, 2009

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…

September 16, 2009

Our October 8, 2009 African-American Fine Art auction marks the first time that early photographer Cornelius Marion Battey’s photographic portraits will come to auction. These…