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The following was written by Vice President and Director of Photographs & Photobooks, Daile Kaplan:   I love looking at photographs in both black-and-white and color…

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…

August 4, 2017 Vintage Posters

More than 600 colorful advertisements and announcements crossed the block at our sale of Vintage Posters on Wednesday, August 2. The encyclopedic selection represented a century’s…

August 1, 2017 African American Art

Nigel Freeman, founder and director of our African-American Fine Art department, is in London this week visiting some familiar images. Two of the works in the Tate Modern’s…

July 27, 2017 Vintage Posters

An unusual lot in our upcoming auction of Vintage Posters features a colorful individual: Captain Costentenus, a Greek Albanian man tattooed from head to foot.    …