October 7, 2024Deborah RogalPhotographs & Photobooks Auction Highlights: Fine Photographs — October 31, 2024 Read more about Auction Highlights: Fine Photographs — October 31, 2024 This October Fine Photographs auction will center photography as it developed and impacted the American West as well as the use of photography in exploration and documentation
Read more about Collectors on Collecting: An American Century by Dr. James Pearl January 30, 2024 Photographs & Photobooks Collectors on Collecting: An American Century by Dr. James Pearl Dr. James Pearl reflects on the process of amassing his collection of American photography. Coming to auction at Swann Galleries February 15.
Read more about Top Prices for Portfolios in October 2020 Fine Photographs Auction October 27, 2020 Photographs & Photobooks Top Prices for Portfolios in October 2020 Fine Photographs Auction “Our market continues to be dynamic and varied. We saw strength in the FSA and other Depression-era photography as well as in other classical material. The bidding was also lively…
Read more about Fall 2020 Preview: Fine Photographs September 9, 2020 Photographs & Photobooks Fall 2020 Preview: Fine Photographs Highlights for both the new collector and the seasoned auction aficionado include photographs by Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Alma Lavenson and Dorothea Lange.
Read more about Artist Profile: Edward Weston March 4, 2020 Photographs & Photobooks Artist Profile: Edward Weston Edward Weston was a self-taught photographer who migrated to California from the midwest and began his career there as a commercial portrait photographer in Glendale. His early style was characterized by a soft-focus approach that emulated painting and was associated with a school of photography known as Pictorialism. Weston was also a member of Group f/64—a community of artist-photographers who developed a photographic vocabulary and visual style described as California Modernism. Here Daile Kaplan discusses how to identify prints by Edward and his sons Brett and Cole.
Read more about Edward Steichen’s ‘White Lotus’ Brings Record for the Image in Winter 2020 Sale of Classic & Contemporary Photographs February 27, 2020 Photographs & Photobooks Edward Steichen’s ‘White Lotus’ Brings Record for the Image in Winter 2020 Sale of Classic & Contemporary Photographs 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 on the Swann Galleries App.
Read more about California Modernism: Photography from Group f/64 February 20, 2020 Photographs & Photobooks California Modernism: Photography from Group f/64 The perpetual sunshine and endless summer enjoyed by California natives has traditionally been linked to the glamor and film industries. But in the 1920s and thirties, a community of artist-photographers known as Group f/64 developed a photographic vocabulary and visual style that might best be described as California Modernism.
Read more about Identifying Types of Photographic Prints August 11, 2017 Photographs & Photobooks Identifying Types of Photographic Prints 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 by…
Read more about Nahui Olin: Muse & Maker June 5, 2017 Art Press & Illustrated Books Nahui Olin: Muse & Maker Nahui Olin, the pseudonym of Carmen Mondragón, was a Mexican Surrealist active in the 1920s and ’30s. She hailed from the upper echelons of Mexican society, and fraternized with the…