Fine Photographs

Swann Auction Galleries Sale #2716: This diverse auction features the full spectrum of the history of the photographic medium. Highlights depicting the American scene include Ansel Adams’ sublime Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada, from Lone Pine, California (1944; printed April 1978), Edward Steichen’s The May Pole (The Empire State Building) (1932), George Tice’s Petit's Mobil Station and Watertower, Cherry Hill, N.J. (1974; printed 1988), and Fan Ho’s Two by Two (1969; printed 1978).

Robert Mapplethorpe’s extraordinary Phillip on Pedestal (front) (1979) fills out studies of the human form, and Henri Cartier-Bresson's dynamic L’Araignée d’amour, Mexico (1934; printed later) the luminous French Humanists.

EXHIBITION
Sat, Oct 11th 12pm – 5pm
Mon, Oct 13th 12pm – 5pm
Tue, Oct 14th 12pm – 5pm
Wed, Oct 15th 12pm – 5pm