A binded catalog showing the framing of the photographs published in the daily with an exhibit followed by a sale, everything seemed ready to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the newspaper. The organizers had simply forgotten to translate the informations and captions of the photographs from English into French. They were mainly considered, voluntarily or not - anonymous photographs , when each of them should have had a signature with the copyright that go with it. Agencies and photographers concerned have simply prohibited the sale "Eye on the world, Photographic treasures from the archives of the Internationa Herald Tribune", organized by the company Yann le Mouel , under the expertise of Viviane Esders which was to take place Monday, November 19, 2012 at 14:00 in room 15 of the Hotel Drouot.

This is all the more regrettable that a few days ago, another incident occurred in another sale. A batch of three hundred photographs of Gisèle Freund given for sale by the French domains was challenged by rights holders and withdrawn from sale when it was fully covered by orders well above the high estimate of the catalog.

Meanwhile the sale organized by Sotheby's Paris on Friday, November 16 achieved an overall score of 1,560,000 €. With a world record for the print of André Kertész "Workers underground" Paris 1926 awarded € 90,750. And a world record for Leni Riefenstahl for her thirty prints portfolio "Nuba" awarded € 234,750 and significantly exceeding the high estimate which was under € 80,000.

Bernard Perrine