Photobooks and Photography at auction at Swann Galleries
Swann Galleries’s December auction of Photographic Literature & Photographs opens with nearly 300 lots of significant examples of photographic literature, including early books and periodicals, scarce Japanese works and Modern and Contemporary titles. Among the earliest works are several editions of the publication Camera Work, including the sought-after Number 36, with 16 photogravures by Alfred Stieglitz, New York, 1911 (estimate: $18,000 to $22,000); and a different Stieglitz publication, Camera Notes and Proceedings of the Camera Club of New York, Volume 5, Parts 1-4, signed and inscribed by Stieglitz to a founding member of the Edinburgh Photographic Society, New York, 1901-02 ($9,000 to $12,000). Also from the late 19th and early 20th centuries are photographically illustrated medical texts, such as a German book documenting orthopedic conditions of the hip, with 10 albumen prints, first edition, Leipzig, 1863 ($2,000 to $3,000), and Hardy and De Montmeja’s Clinique Photographique de l’Hopital Saint Louis, with 49 photographs of patients afflicted with syphilis, eczema and other skin diseases, Paris, 1868 ($9,000 to $12,000); albums of exotic locations, including Tree & Serpent Worship: Or, Illustration of Mythology and Art in India by James Fergusson, with 57 albumen prints, London, 1868 ($2,500 to $3,500); and The Imperial City of Peking, China, Photographs of Palace Buildings of Peking, Volumes I&II by Kazumasa Ogawa, with 166 collotype plates and three fold-out panoramas, Tokyo, 1906 ($1,000 to $1,500); as well as Owen Simmons’s The Book of Bread, with 30 images of loaves and slices of bread, first edition, London, 1903 ($4,000 to $6,000).
Important modern works include Steichen the Photographer by Carl Sandburg, one of 950 signed by Sandburg and Steichen, New York, 1929 ($2,000 to $3,000); Man Ray’s Photographs 1920-1934 Paris, Hartford and New York, 1934 ($2,500 to $3,500); Brassaï’s Voluptés de Paris [Pleasures of Paris], Paris, 1935 ($2,000 to $3,000); a signed and inscribed copy of Berenice Abbott’s Changing New York, New York, 1939 ($4,000 to $6,000); Walker Evans’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Boston, 1941 ($1,500 to $2,500); and a signed and inscribed copy of William Klein’s Life is Good & Good for You in New York, Milan, 1956 ($2,000 to $3,000).
Among many prized Japanese highlights are Ken Domon and Shomei Tomatsu’s Hiroshima-Nagasaki, Document 1961, first edition, 1961 ($5,500 to $7,500); Eikoh Hosoe’s Ba-Ra-Kei [Killed by Roses], one of 1500 numbered copies signed by Hosoe and Yukio Mishima, who wrote the introduction, Tokyo, 1963 ($3,000 to $4,000), and Hosoe’s Kamaitachi, Tokyo, 1969 ($3,500 to $4,500); Daido Moriyama’s Sashin yo Sayonara [Goodbye Photography, Dear], signed, Tokyo, 1972 ($4,000 to $6,000), and Karyudo [A Hunter], signed, Tokyo, 1972 ($4,500 to $5,500); and Masahisa Fukase’s Karasu [Ravens], Tokyo, 1986 ($3,000 to $4,000).
Highlights from the late 20th century include Lucas Samaras’s Samaras Album, Autointerview, Autobiography, Autopolaroid, one of 100 signed by Samaras and issued with a Polaroid, New York, 1971 ($3,000 to $4,500); Callahan, deluxe edition, signed and numbered and issued with a print, New York, 1976 ($3,000 to $4,000); Robert Adams, From the Missouri West, Photographs by Robert Adams, one of 100 signed and numbered by Adams with a photograph, New York, 1980 ($2,000 to $3,000); Paul Graham’s The Great North Road, deluxe edition, one of 75 planned copies, signed and issued with an original photograph, Bristol, 1983 ($12,000 to $18,000); Robert Frank’s Flower Is . . . , one of 500, Tokyo, 1987 ($5,000 to $7,500); and Luis Gonzales Palma, one of 100 signed and numbered and issued with a photograph, New York, 1999 ($2,000 to $2,500). The auction continues at 2:30 p.m. with a selection of more than 250 Photographs. Among featured items are early cased images, Civil War views, and several albums with subjects such as Australia, China, maritime and performing arts. Among individual highlights are Karl Struss’s Storm Clouds, platinum print, 1921 ($6,000 to $9,000); Tina Modotti’s Roses, platinum contact print, 1924, printed 1993 ($8,000 to $12,000); August Sander’s Bricklayer’s Mate, silver print, 1929, printed 1990 ($7,000 to $10,000); Paul Strand’s Grazing Horses, New Mexico, double-coated platinum print, 1930 ($20,000 to $30,000); Edward Weston’s Cypress, Point Lobos, silver print, 1930 ($12,000 to $18,000); Herbert Bayer’s Lonely Metropolitan, silver print, 1932, printed 1969 ($7,000 to $10,000); Charles Sheeler’s View of New York, silver print after a painting, circa 1934 ($9,000 to $12,000); and Margaret Bourke-White’s Steps to the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C., silver print, circa 1937 ($5,000 to $7,500).
Portraits include Ansel Adams’s photograph of Edward Weston, Carmel Highlands, California, silver print, 1945, printed 1974 ($7,000 to $10,000); W. Eugene Smith’s Albert Schweitzer, silver print, 1949, printed 1960s ($6,000 to $9,000); Arnold Newman’s Picasso, silver print, 1954, printed 1980s, ($3,000 to $4,500), and Georgia O’Keeffe, Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, silver print, 1968 ($3,000 to $4,000); and Philippe Halsman’s Marilyn Monroe, silver print, 1956, printed 1981 ($1,500 to $2,500).
Mid-century highlights include Andreas Feininger’s Brooklyn Bridge at Night, silver print, 1948, printed 1997 ($5,000 to $7,500); Bill Brandt’s Untitled (nude distortion), silver print, 1950s ($7,000 to $10,000); Dave Heath’s Hell’s Kitchen, NYC, silver print, 1958 ($4,000 to $6,000); Ormond Gigli’s New York City (Models in the Windows), chromogenic print, 1960, printed 1990s ($8,000 to $12,000); and Henri Cartier-Bresson’s Sifnos, Greece, silver print, 1961, printed early-mid 1960s ($7,000 to $10,000). Among contemporary images are Larry Clark’s Untitled (from Tulsa), silver print, early 1970s ($10,000 to $15,000); Sally Mann’s Untitled (from “At Twelve”), silver print, 1980s, printed late 80s ($4,000 to $6,000); Flor Garduño’s portfolio, Witnesses of Time, with 10 lyrical photographs of Ecuador, Guatemala and Bolivia, platinum palladium prints, 1988-1990, printed 1993 ($14,000 to $18,000); Roy De Carava’s self-titled portfolio, with 12 dust-grain photogravures, each signed, dated and numbered, 1991 ($20,000 to $25,000); Shirin Neshat’s I Am Its Secret, Chromogenic print, 1993 ($7,000 to $10,000); and a portfolio entitled Printed Matter Photography Portfolio 1: Portraits, with 11 photographs by major artists including Nan Goldin, Richard Prince, and Lorna Simpson, cibachrome and silver prints, 1994 ($20,000 to $30,000).
Important modern works include Steichen the Photographer by Carl Sandburg, one of 950 signed by Sandburg and Steichen, New York, 1929 ($2,000 to $3,000); Man Ray’s Photographs 1920-1934 Paris, Hartford and New York, 1934 ($2,500 to $3,500); Brassaï’s Voluptés de Paris [Pleasures of Paris], Paris, 1935 ($2,000 to $3,000); a signed and inscribed copy of Berenice Abbott’s Changing New York, New York, 1939 ($4,000 to $6,000); Walker Evans’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Boston, 1941 ($1,500 to $2,500); and a signed and inscribed copy of William Klein’s Life is Good & Good for You in New York, Milan, 1956 ($2,000 to $3,000).
Among many prized Japanese highlights are Ken Domon and Shomei Tomatsu’s Hiroshima-Nagasaki, Document 1961, first edition, 1961 ($5,500 to $7,500); Eikoh Hosoe’s Ba-Ra-Kei [Killed by Roses], one of 1500 numbered copies signed by Hosoe and Yukio Mishima, who wrote the introduction, Tokyo, 1963 ($3,000 to $4,000), and Hosoe’s Kamaitachi, Tokyo, 1969 ($3,500 to $4,500); Daido Moriyama’s Sashin yo Sayonara [Goodbye Photography, Dear], signed, Tokyo, 1972 ($4,000 to $6,000), and Karyudo [A Hunter], signed, Tokyo, 1972 ($4,500 to $5,500); and Masahisa Fukase’s Karasu [Ravens], Tokyo, 1986 ($3,000 to $4,000).
Highlights from the late 20th century include Lucas Samaras’s Samaras Album, Autointerview, Autobiography, Autopolaroid, one of 100 signed by Samaras and issued with a Polaroid, New York, 1971 ($3,000 to $4,500); Callahan, deluxe edition, signed and numbered and issued with a print, New York, 1976 ($3,000 to $4,000); Robert Adams, From the Missouri West, Photographs by Robert Adams, one of 100 signed and numbered by Adams with a photograph, New York, 1980 ($2,000 to $3,000); Paul Graham’s The Great North Road, deluxe edition, one of 75 planned copies, signed and issued with an original photograph, Bristol, 1983 ($12,000 to $18,000); Robert Frank’s Flower Is . . . , one of 500, Tokyo, 1987 ($5,000 to $7,500); and Luis Gonzales Palma, one of 100 signed and numbered and issued with a photograph, New York, 1999 ($2,000 to $2,500). The auction continues at 2:30 p.m. with a selection of more than 250 Photographs. Among featured items are early cased images, Civil War views, and several albums with subjects such as Australia, China, maritime and performing arts. Among individual highlights are Karl Struss’s Storm Clouds, platinum print, 1921 ($6,000 to $9,000); Tina Modotti’s Roses, platinum contact print, 1924, printed 1993 ($8,000 to $12,000); August Sander’s Bricklayer’s Mate, silver print, 1929, printed 1990 ($7,000 to $10,000); Paul Strand’s Grazing Horses, New Mexico, double-coated platinum print, 1930 ($20,000 to $30,000); Edward Weston’s Cypress, Point Lobos, silver print, 1930 ($12,000 to $18,000); Herbert Bayer’s Lonely Metropolitan, silver print, 1932, printed 1969 ($7,000 to $10,000); Charles Sheeler’s View of New York, silver print after a painting, circa 1934 ($9,000 to $12,000); and Margaret Bourke-White’s Steps to the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C., silver print, circa 1937 ($5,000 to $7,500).
Portraits include Ansel Adams’s photograph of Edward Weston, Carmel Highlands, California, silver print, 1945, printed 1974 ($7,000 to $10,000); W. Eugene Smith’s Albert Schweitzer, silver print, 1949, printed 1960s ($6,000 to $9,000); Arnold Newman’s Picasso, silver print, 1954, printed 1980s, ($3,000 to $4,500), and Georgia O’Keeffe, Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, silver print, 1968 ($3,000 to $4,000); and Philippe Halsman’s Marilyn Monroe, silver print, 1956, printed 1981 ($1,500 to $2,500).
Mid-century highlights include Andreas Feininger’s Brooklyn Bridge at Night, silver print, 1948, printed 1997 ($5,000 to $7,500); Bill Brandt’s Untitled (nude distortion), silver print, 1950s ($7,000 to $10,000); Dave Heath’s Hell’s Kitchen, NYC, silver print, 1958 ($4,000 to $6,000); Ormond Gigli’s New York City (Models in the Windows), chromogenic print, 1960, printed 1990s ($8,000 to $12,000); and Henri Cartier-Bresson’s Sifnos, Greece, silver print, 1961, printed early-mid 1960s ($7,000 to $10,000). Among contemporary images are Larry Clark’s Untitled (from Tulsa), silver print, early 1970s ($10,000 to $15,000); Sally Mann’s Untitled (from “At Twelve”), silver print, 1980s, printed late 80s ($4,000 to $6,000); Flor Garduño’s portfolio, Witnesses of Time, with 10 lyrical photographs of Ecuador, Guatemala and Bolivia, platinum palladium prints, 1988-1990, printed 1993 ($14,000 to $18,000); Roy De Carava’s self-titled portfolio, with 12 dust-grain photogravures, each signed, dated and numbered, 1991 ($20,000 to $25,000); Shirin Neshat’s I Am Its Secret, Chromogenic print, 1993 ($7,000 to $10,000); and a portfolio entitled Printed Matter Photography Portfolio 1: Portraits, with 11 photographs by major artists including Nan Goldin, Richard Prince, and Lorna Simpson, cibachrome and silver prints, 1994 ($20,000 to $30,000).
The morning session of the auction, offering Photographic Literature, will start at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, December 13. The afternoon session of Photographs will begin at 2:30 p.m.
The items will be on public exhibition at Swann Galleries Saturday, December 8, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Monday, December 10, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Tuesday, December 11, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; and Wednesday, December 12, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
A two-volume illustrated catalogue, with information on bidding by mail or fax, is available for $35 from Swann Galleries, Inc., 104 East 25th Street, New York, NY 10010, or online at www.swanngalleries.com.
For further information, and to make arrangements to bid by telephone during the auction, please contact Daile Kaplan at (212) 254-4710 extension 21, or via e-mail at dkaplan@swanngalleries.com.
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