Among the photographic litterature offered at Swann Galleries: scarce early examples of photographic literature include Alfred Stieglitz’s Camera Notes, Volumes III-V, the official organ of the Camera Club of New York, 1899-1900 ($6,000 to $9,000); individual copies of Stieglitz’s Camera ...

12.12.2011[ read full story ]

Swann Galleries’ auction of Important Photobooks & Photographs on Thursday, December 13 features beautiful and poignant images and books ranging from the earliest photographs to works by artists living and working today.

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Presided over by Princess Stéphanie of Monaco, the 2011 Fight Aids
Monaco Auction that took place on Thursday, December 1 at the Méridien Beach Plaza, collected 462000 €.

06.12.2011[ read full story ]

Pierre Champion and Françoise Kusel, auctioneers in Nimes, will be running the sale of photographs by Eugène Atget to be held on Saturday, December 3 at 2pm, in the city’s Hôtel des Ventes. Under the expertise of Yves Di Maria, this auction will be offering diverse lots focusing...

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Since Photography is a generic title that includes the "Épreuves choisies" (from the photographic patrimony of Serge Plantureux) confronting "aesthetic mutations”. On Monday, December 12, 2011 at 4pm at Drouot Montaigne, under the expertise of Jean-Mathieu Martini, a...

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The Sotheby’s auction on November 11 offered major lots attracting more than 140 international bidders in the room, on the phone or on the website resulting in a global sale of 1,9 millions d'euros. According to Simone Klein, European Director of Photography for Sotheby’s, “Co...

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Like a magnet, Paris Photo attracted a variety of Auction houses that scheduled their fall photography offers during this period. Not including internet events, the 10 local sales were all presented in La Lettre.

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Paris auctioneer Françoise Caste-Deburaux, of the Compagnie Marocaine des Œuvres et Objets d'Art (CMOOA) is organizing the first contemporary Arabic, Turkish and Iranian photography sale in Morocco. The sale is comprised of approximately 70 photographs including international...

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A photograph of the Rhein river taken in 1999 by the German photographer, Andreas Gursky, has become the most expensive image in the world, fetching 4.3 million dollars from an anonymous buyer at an auction hosted by Christie’s New York. The large-format Rhein II depi...

14.11.2011[ read full story ]

I took this picture of Yves Saint Laurent’s glasses a year after his death. They were simply lying there on the desk in his room as if he had just taken them off. I moved them slightly to catch the light better, as if they were sitting for a portrait. The couturier was no longer th...

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