Browsing Tag Photographs & Photobooks

January 30, 2024

Dr. James Pearl reflects on the process of amassing his collection of American photography. Coming to auction at Swann Galleries February 15.

January 23, 2024

This special auction highlights 100 lots from the Collection of Dr. James and Debra Pearl. Rich in American landscape.

October 3, 2023

Post-war Japanese photography witnessed significant developments and innovations that reflected the changing social, cultural, and political landscape of Japan. The devastation…

September 12, 2023

Our October 5, 2023, Fine Photographs auction features a wide range of rare and important work including an unusually large-format example of Harry Shunk and Jànos Kender’s…

August 22, 2023

The August 17, 2023, LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History auction was a testament to the growing interest in the newly defined area of collecting. In keeping with previous…

April 19, 2023

Beyond Fashion: Photography in a Category Overlooked in the Fine Art Lexicon Though ostensibly fashion photography is simply intended to sell a product or a lifestyle, the…

March 7, 2023

The February 2023 timed-app exclusive sale of Fine Photographs brought $996,156 with 220 of the 266 lots offered finding buyers, an 83% sell-through rate by lot. I am thrilled to…

February 22, 2023

An eclectic collection driven by an eye for the interesting, unusual, and beautiful, as well as intellectual interests as wide-ranging as car racing, early cased imagery, crime,…

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…

January 3, 2023

2022 was a historic year for Swann in more ways than one. The house celebrated its 80th year of auctions, bringing with it the 70th anniversary of the first photography auction to…