Photography Collection

Preliminary results of sale 2191, October 22, 2009: Photographs and photographic literature
Sale total: $1,303,148 with Buyer's Premium
Hammer total: $1,085,100
Estimates for sale as a whole: $1,386,300 - $2,011,650
Swann Galleries offered 326 lots; 245 sold (25% buy-in rate by lot)

Top lots, Prices with buyer's premium:
28 Eadweard Muybridge, diverse group of 125 plates from Animal Locomotion, collotypes, 1887, $81,000 D

255 Eddie Adams, Saigon (General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner Nguyen Van Lém), silver print, a gift to Adams’s son, with letter of provenance, 1968, printed 1980s, $43,200 C

284 Richard Avedon, Rudolf Nureyev, Paris, France, silver print, 1961, printed 1999, $26,400 C

27 Alexander Gardner and Chas Bell, suite of 29 cabinet cards published by the U.S. Geological Survey of the territories, albumen prints, late 1860s-early 1870s, $26,400 D

211 Bert Stern, Marilyn (Crucifix II), chromogenic print, 1962, printed 1990, $24,000 D

152 Horst P. Horst, Mainbocher Corset, Paris, silver print, 1939, printed 1990s, $21,600 C

227 Harry Callahan, Chicago, silver print, 1950, printed early 1970s, $18,000 C

64 Wilson A. Bentley, elegant group of 7 snowcrystals, gold-chloride toned photomicrographs from a glass plate negative, circa 1903-1910, $18,000 C

297 Diane Arbus, Agnes Martin, silver print, 1966, $18,000 C

292 Horst, Round the Clock I, silver print, 1987, printed 1980s,$16,800 C

282 David Bailey, Jean Shrimpton, silver print, 1963-1964, $16,800 C

99 Man Ray, Untitled (rayograph with a screen), silver print after the original rayograph, circa 1922, $15,600 C

42 A spectacular album containing 62 photographs of China, albumen prints, 1880s, $15,600 D

117 Lewis W. Hine, Powerhouse Mechanic (variant), silver print, circa 1926, $15,600 D

21 American portrait collection with more than 115 tintypes, 1860s-1880s, $15,600 C

189 Archive documenting Vladimir Kozmich Zworykin's early experiments with television transmission, including more than 125 photographs, 1930s-1940s, $15,600 C

34 Julia Margaret Cameron, Lord Alfred Tennyson, albumen print, with Tennyson’s signature, 1869, $13,200 D
196 Yousuf Karsh, Ernest Hemingway, silver print, 1957, printed 1970s, $13,200 C

242 Avedon, Charles Chaplin, Actor, Beverly Hills, California, silver print, 1972, printed 1975, $12,000 C

31 Rare, early mug shot album with more than 230 pictures of criminals, albumen prints, California, 1885-1892, $12,000 D

136 Group of 10 F.S.A. photographs printed by Arthur Rothstein, with images by Lange, Shahn, Rothstein and Evans, silver prints, 1935-1939, printed 1970s, $12,000 C

C= Collector; D=Dealer