The 2017-18 auction season at Swann Galleries was replete with record prices and rediscovered paintings, offering works created as early as the fifteenth century and as recently…
Our April 19 auction The Knowing Eye: Photographs & Photobooks was led by the only known extant print of River Rouge Plant, Detroit (with Ford signage on freight car), 1947,…
We opened the 2018 season with a $1.6M auction of Icons & Images: Photographs & Photobooks on February 15. Important rare and unique work, both fine art and vernacular,…
Daile Kaplan Reflects on Lewis Hine’s Legacy Lewis Wickes Hine was one of the most important social documentary photographers of the twentieth century. He spent years…
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…
With the recent NPR coverage questioning whether an anonymous photograph actually depicts Amelia Earhart on a wharf in Jaluit Atoll, photography’s role as historic evidence…
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.…
