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Classic & Contemporary Photographs Bring $1.5M at Swann

New York — Swann Galleries’ Thursday, October 17 sale of Classic & Contemporary Photographs featured a broad range of photographic material. “The sale cast a wide net with icons of popular culture, important historical images and classic masterpieces of fine art photography,” noted Daile Kaplan, the house’s Director of Photographs & Photobooks.

Edward S. Curtis’s portfolios and

Irving Penn Leads October Photographs Auction at Swann

New York — Swann Galleries will offer Classic & Contemporary Photographs on Thursday, October 17 with a selection that explores the way fine art and vernacular photography create a dialogue influencing visual culture.

Irving Penn leads the sale with a platinum-palladium print, Cuzco Children, Peru,

Highlights of Swann Galleries’ October Auction of Icons & Images

New York—On Thursday, October 15, Swann

Met Museum Plans Irving Penn Centennial Exhibit in 2017

(New York, June 12, 2015)—Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, announced today that the Museum will present a major retrospective exhibition of the photographs of Irving Penn (1917-2009) to mark the centennial of the artist’s birth. He further announced that The Irving Penn Foundation will make a landmark promised gift to the Met of more than 150 photographs by

Photographs and Photobooks from the Library of Bill Diodato Coming Up at Swann Galleries

NEW YORK—On February 27, Swann Galleries will offer a two-part sale of Fine Photographs with a

Collection of Crime Photos & Modernist Masterpieces at Swann Galleries October 17

New York—On Thursday, October 17 Swann Galleries will conduct an auction of

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