Photography Collection

Swann Galleries has finished an auction of 19th and 20th century photographs including 75 rare Japanese landscapes, street scenes and temples by Felix Beato who visited Asia 140 years ago and pictures by Edward Weston, Margrethe Mather and Ansel Adams. The sale total was $1,486,440 with Buyer's Premium and 263 out of 390 lots have been sold. These are the results:

31* Marc Ferrez, album comtaining 68 original photographs of Brazil, late 1880s-early 1890s, $48,000 C

57 Edward Weston / Margrethe Mather, The Marion Morgan Dancers, platinum-palladium print, circa 1921, $43,200 D

98** Roman Vishniac, The Vanished World, portfolio with 12 silver prints, 1936-38, printed 1977, $38,400 C

154 Ansel Adams, Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada, from Lone Pine, California, silver print, 1944, printed 1978, $31,200 D

24 Felix Beato, group of 75 rare Japanese landscapes, albumen prints, circa 1870, $24,000 C

219***Ruth Orkin, The Cardplayers, the Family of Man, 6 photographs, silver prints, 1947, printed 1955, $24,000 D

20 Timothy O’Sullivan, Ancient Ruins in the Canyon de Chelle, N.M., on Wheeler Survey letterpress mount, 1873, $24,000 C

88 Dorothea Lange, Ex-Slave with a Long Memory, Alabama, silver print, 1937, printed 1950s, $19,200 C

255 Minor White, Jupiter, portfolio with 12 silver prints, 1947-1971, printed 1975, $19,200 D

79 Walker Evans, Sidewalk in Vicksburg, Mississippi, silver print, 1936, printed 1940s-1950s, $18,000 C

37 Edward S. Curtis, Chief of the Desert, Navajo, orotone, 1909, $16,800 D

137* Margaret Bourke-White, DC-4 Flying over New York City, silver print, 1939, printed 2001, $15,600 C

117 Horst P. Horst, Mainbocher Corset, Paris, silver print, 1939, printed 1980s, $15,600 D

353 Francesca Woodman, Untitled (skull), silver print, 1977-1978, $14,400 C

60 Tina Modotti, Maria Marin de Orozco, platinum print, 1925, $14,400 D

63 Tina Modotti / Ava Vargas, group of 4 photographs from the “Tina Modotti” portfolio, platinum prints,1924-1927, printed 1993, $14,400 D

308 Ansel Adams, Sonoma County Hills, silver print, circa 1955, $14,400 C

256 Minor White, Snow on Garage Door, Rochester, New York, silver print, 1960, $14,400 D

110 Walker Evans, Coal Stevedore, Havana (Dockworker, Havana), silver print, 1933, printed circa 1970, $14,400 C

359 William Eggleston, Untitled (Confederate flag), dye-transfer print, 1973, printed 1996, $13,200 D

321 Horst P. Horst, Round the Clock I, New York, silver print, 1987, printed 1980s, $13,200 C

Prices with buyer's premium. KEY: *=Artist Record; **=Record for Portfolio; ***=Record for Suite; C=Collector; D=Dealer