Browsing Tag Henri Cartier-Bresson

January 22, 2025

The February Fine Photographs auction brings together twentieth-century masters in a curated selection of diverse and rare highlights.

January 24, 2023

The Photographs season begins with an exciting online auction featuring an array of nineteenth- and twentieth-century highlights.  The sale is headlined by Irving…

October 24, 2022

The Thursday, October 20 sale of Fine Photographs at Swann Galleries brought $1.2M with a strong showing for American photography and portfolios. Romana Javitz & Dorothea…

February 7, 2022

Armed with seven decades of photography history at her disposal, and nearly 20 years in the field, Swann photographs and photobooks director, Deborah Rogal, shares five of her…

March 4, 2021

Photography is a particularly compelling medium for making portraits. The possibility to render oneself or another in this representational medium is relentlessly appealing, and…

February 27, 2020

It was a Who’s Who among American photographers in Classic & Contemporary Photographs on Tuesday, February 25. The auction brought $1M and saw competitive bidding in the room and…

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…

October 16, 2017

Magnum Photos, founded as a cooperative agency in 1947, is perhaps the most well-known photographic collective in the world. Through the Magnum photographs included in our October…

February 19, 2014

As collector Bill Diodato knows, photography begins with the birth of the photobook. Long before the white wall or editioned print–and more than century before galleries and…