Fine Photographs
Updated September 22, 2026
| Date | October 15, 2026 at 12:00 PM EDT |
| Type | Online only |
| Auction house | Swann Auction Galleries |
| Lots | 288 |
| Estimates | $400 – $45,000 |
What's in this auction
288 lots, mostly antiques & furniture (5), electronics & gaming (3), firearms & militaria (2), pottery, china & glass (2). 288 lots have photos. Pre-sale estimates $400–$45,000 across 288 priced lots. Bidding is online through the auction house's catalog, closing October 15, 2026.
Highest-estimated lots
- Ansel Adams. Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico. 1941; printed 1963-70. — est. $30,000–$45,000
- Ansel Adams. Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada, from Lone Pine, California. 1944; printed April 1978. — est. $30,000–$45,000
- Aleksandr Rodchenko. Pushkin Square. 1932. — est. $20,000–$30,000
- Todd Webb. A Retrospective Set with 25 Photographs. 1946-83; printed circa 1980. — est. $18,000–$22,000
- Roy DeCarava. Man Coming Up Subway Stairs. 1952. — est. $12,000–$18,000
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![Charles DeForest [Carlos] Fredricks. Daguerreotype of a military figure, likely in Buenos Aires. 1850s.](https://image.invaluable.com/housePhotos/swanngalleries/44/816844/H0132-LbkPHwo9zgg333.JPG)
In this auction (288 lots)
Categories: Antiques & Furniture (5) · Electronics & Gaming (3) · Firearms & Militaria (2) · Pottery, China & Glass (2) · Memorabilia & Autographs (1) · Fine Art & Prints (1)
- Lot 1 — Roger Fenton. Plateau of Sebastopol VIII. 1855; published 1856.
- Lot 2 — Andrew J. Russell. A selection of three Civil War photographs. 1863-65.
- Lot 3 — George N. Barnard. Battle Ground of Resacca, GA. No. 1. 1864-65.
- Lot 4 — Francis Frith. The Pyramids of Dahshur from the Southwest. 1858.
- Lot 5 — Felix Bonfils (1831-1885) & Zangaki Brothers (active 1860s-80s), An annotated travel album of approximately 81 photos exploring Cairo, Athens, Constantinople, C
- Lot 6 — Felix-Jacques Moulin. Two Women. Circa 1850.
- Lot 7 — Double ambrotype of a little girl posing with a lamb in a Victorian dress. Circa 1854-65.
- Lot 8 — Group of three post-mortem daguerreotypes. 1850s.
- Lot 9 — Charles DeForest [Carlos] Fredricks. Daguerreotype of a military figure, likely in Buenos Aires. 1850s.
- Lot 10 — Gustave Le Gray. Portrait of a Man Sitting with a Cane. Circa 1856-59.
- Lot 11 — David Wilkie Wynfield. Portrait of painter and sculptor George Frederic Watts. 1863.
- Lot 12 — Portrait of the American writer Walt Whitman. Circa 1871; printed 1920s.
- Lot 13 — Anna K. Weaver. He giveth His beloved Sleep. Circa 1876.
- Lot 14 — Eadweard Muybridge. Man swinging a baseball bat, plate 279 from Animal Locomotion. 1887.
- Lot 15 — Frederick H. Evans. Portrait of the artist Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898). Circa 1894.
- Lot 16 — A double portrait of the artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec painting himself. Circa 1892; printed 1920s.
- Lot 17 — Pair of cabinet cards depicting photographers with their cameras. 1890s.
- Lot 18 — Distortion portrait. Circa 1910-20.
- Lot 19 — Wilhelm von Gloeden. Boy with passion flowers in his hair. Circa 1900.
- Lot 20 — Wilhelm von Gloeden. Portrait of Maria Intelisano (1890-1904). Circa 1900.
- Lot 21 — Wilhelm von Gloeden. Giacomo with Nedda. Circa 1900-10.
- Lot 22 — Mug shot of Emma Goldman, "The High Priestess of Anarchy." 1901.
- Lot 23 — Edward S. Curtis. Hastobiga (Navaho Medicine Man), plate 35 from The North American Indian. 1904.
- Lot 24 — Joseph Kossuth Dixon. Go Fated Indian, to the Farthest Verge of Earth's Remotest Shore. 1908-09.
- Lot 25 — Edward S. Curtis. A Hopi Man, plate 420 from The North American Indian. 1921.
- Lot 26 — Carleton E. Watkins. Mirror Lake, Yosemite, CA. Circa 1865; printed 1880s by Isaiah West Taber.
- Lot 27 — Timothy H. O'Sullivan. Black Cañon, Colorado River, Looking Above from Camp 7. 1871.
- Lot 28 — George Fiske. A suite of 10 views of Yosemite and San Francisco Bay. Circa 1884.
- Lot 29 — Ansel Adams. El Capitan, Yosemite. Circa 1935.
- Lot 30 — Edward Weston. Juniper, Lake Tenaya. 1937.
- Lot 31 — Edward Weston. Alcatraz, San Francisco. 1937; printed circa 1950.
- Lot 32 — Ansel Adams. Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico. 1941; printed 1963-70.
- Lot 33 — Ansel Adams. Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada, from Lone Pine, California. 1944; printed April 1978.
- Lot 34 — Ansel Adams. Group of 11 iconic photographs of Yosemite in a Best's Studio, Yosemite National Park envelope. Circa 1950.
- Lot 35 — A family album with approximately 125 photographs of life in California, including scenes from Yosemite and Monterey, and 4 by Lewis Josselyn (1883-1964). 1940s
- Lot 36 — Ansel Adams. Oak Tree, Sunset City, Sierra Foothills, California. 1962; printed 1973-77.
- Lot 37 — Hill & Adamson, Steichen, Demachy & Alfred Stieglitz. Camera Work Number 11 and Number 16. 1905 and 1906.
- Lot 38 — Clarence White & Alfred Stieglitz. Camera Work Number 23.
- Lot 39 — Ema Spencer. Album with more than 90 photographs. Circa 1900-14.
- Lot 40 — Arnold Genthe. Ainu woman and child, Hokkaido, Japan. Circa 1908.
- Lot 41 — Clarence H. White. Mother and child. 1910s.
- Lot 42 — Josef Sudek. Pastoral Landscape. Circa 1921.
- Lot 43 — Johan Hagemeyer. Trees on Telegraph Hill. 1925.
- Lot 44 — Doris Ulmann. Dutch Penn Farmer with Green Pepper. Circa 1928-34.
- Lot 45 — Doris Ulmann. Older African American man. 1920s.
- Lot 46 — Adolf Fassbender. Pictorial Artistry: The Dramatization of the Beautiful in Photography. 1937.
- Lot 47 — James Van Der Zee. Kate and Rachel. 1908; printed circa 1970.
- Lot 48 — A Portfolio of Masterpieces. 1848-1907; printed circa 1975 under the supervision of Arthur Rothstein.
- Lot 49 — Lewis W. Hine. Making steel rails in a small iron works [Pittsburgh Survey]. Circa 1910.
- Lot 50 — Dorothea Lange. The General Strike, Policeman, San Francisco, 1934; printed 1970s.
- Lot 51 — Dorothea Lange. Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California. 1936; printed 1970s.
- Lot 52 — Walker Evans. Allie Mae Burroughs, Wife of a Cotton Sharecropper, Hale County, Alabama. 1936; printed circa 1970.
- Lot 53 — Walker Evans. Mrs. Frank Tengle and Laura Minnie Lee Tengle, Hale County, Alabama. 1936; printed circa 1970.
- Lot 54 — Walker Evans. Minstrel Poster Detail, Alabama. 1936; printed circa 1970.
- Lot 55 — Dorothea Lange. Towards Los Angeles. 1936; printed 1970s.
- Lot 56 — Dorothea Lange, Three related drought refugee families from homes near Claremore, Oklahoma, 1937.
- Lot 57 — Marion Post Wolcott. Negro going in colored entrance of movie house on Saturday afternoon, Belzoni, Miss. * Young cotton pickers waiting in plantation store to
- Lot 58 — Dorothea Lange. Just before the Primary, McLennan County Courthouse, Waco, Texas. 1938; printed 1970s.
- Lot 59 — Alfred Eisenstaedt. Intermission at the American Ballet School, N.Y.C. 1936; printed 1960s.
- Lot 60 — André Kertész. Ballet, New York. 1938; printed 1975.
- Lot 61 — Edmund Teske. Richard Soakup, Chicago. Summer 1940.
- Lot 62 — A suite of 5 Photomatic self portraits and a vintage Photomatic metal sign. 1940s.
- Lot 63 — Weegee. At Sammy's on the Bowery. 1944; printed 1993 by Sid Kaplan.
- Lot 64 — Wayne Miller. Chorus girls backstage at the Rum Boogie Club, Chicago. 1946.
- Lot 65 — Todd Webb. Boy with Knitted Cap, Detroit. 1942; printed circa 1976.
- Lot 66 — Gordon Parks. American Gothic. 1942; printed circa 1970.
- Lot 67 — Roy DeCarava. Man Coming Up Subway Stairs. 1952.
- Lot 68 — Walter Rosenblum. Two children in the window, East Harlem. 1952; printed circa 1960.
- Lot 69 — Garry Winogrand. Coney Island, New York. 1952; printed 1974.
- Lot 70 — W. Eugene Smith. Untitled, from the A Man of Mercy photo essay. 1954; printed circa 1970.
- Lot 71 — Louis Stettner. Boston Train Station. Circa 1954-58; printed 1975.
- Lot 72 — Dave Heath. Chicago. 1956; printed 1960s.
- Lot 73 — Bruce Davidson. A man with his children, Selma, Alabama, from Time of Change. 1965; printed 1970s.
- Lot 74 — W. Eugene Smith. Welsh Miners. Circa 1950; printed circa 1970.
- Lot 75 — Danny Lyon. Uptown. 1965; printed 2000.
- Lot 76 — Baron Adolf de Meyer. Nijinsky, L'Après-midi d'un Faune. 1912; published 1978.
- Lot 77 — Nickolas Muray. A pair of photographs of the dancer Leon Barte, Pavlova Ballet. 1921.
- Lot 78 — Lotte Jacobi. Claire Bauroff, Dancer, Berlin. 1928; printed before 1979.
- Lot 79 — Edward Steichen. Ballerina. Circa 1930s.
- Lot 80 — Howard Dearstyne. Self portrait. 1929.
- Lot 81 — Cecil Beaton. Miss Nancy Beaton as Ophelia. 1930.
- Lot 82 — Ringl + Pit (Grete Stern & Ellen Auerbach). Pit in Veil. 1930; printed 1980s by Ellen Auerbach.
- Lot 83 — André Kertész. Colette, Paris. 1930; printed 1981.
- Lot 84 — Carl Van Vechten. Frida Kahlo. March 19th, 1932; printed circa 1960.
- Lot 85 — Trude Fleischmann. Dolly Haas as Scampolo. 1933.
- Lot 86 — Carl Van Vechten. Florence Deshon. April 9, 1934.
- Lot 87 — Portrait of Dorothea Lange. Circa 1936; printed in 1998 by Rondal Partridge.
- Lot 88 — Boris Lipnitzki. Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) in his Paris studio. 1936.
- Lot 89 — Henri Cartier-Bresson. Two portraits of artists: Pierre Bonnard and Augustus John. 1944 and 1950; printed 1970s.
- Lot 90 — PaJaMa. Margaret French and Paul Cadmus, Provincetown. 1940s.
- Lot 91 — Horst P. Horst. Bullfighter (Jesús Solórzano) posing at window. Circa 1941.
- Lot 92 — George Platt Lynes. A pair of portraits of Francisco Moncion as Sebastian. 1944.
- Lot 93 — George Platt Lynes. Portrait of the dancer and model Randy Jack. Circa 1947.
- Lot 94 — Arnold Newman. Jackson Pollock, Long Island, NY. 1949; printed 1980s.
- Lot 95 — Weegee. Hedda Hopper. Circa 1950.
- Lot 96 — Herman Leonard. Billie Holiday, New York. 1954; printed 1988.
- Lot 97 — Moneta J. Sleet. Portrait of Billie Holiday. 1956; printed 1980s.
- Lot 98 — Philippe Halsman. Untitled, from Salvador Dali's mustache project. 1953.
- Lot 99 — Robert Doisneau. Picasso et Françoise Gilot. 1952; printed 1980s.
- Lot 100 — Arnold Newman. Pablo Picasso, Vallauris, France. 1954; printed 1970s.
- Lot 101 — Yousuf Karsh. Georgia O'Keeffe. 1956; printed 1990s.
- Lot 102 — Ellen Auerbach. Portrait of Eliot Porter. 1956.
- Lot 103 — Robert Frank. Mary, Andrea, and Pablo in Las Vegas during the making of The Americans. 1955-57; printed 1960s.
- Lot 104 — Robert Frank. Portrait of Mary during the Making of The Americans. 1955-57; printed 1960s.
- Lot 105 — Robert Frank. Mary in her Chelsea studio. 1960; printed 1960s.
- Lot 106 — Robert Capa. The Falling Soldier. 1936; printed 1970s.
- Lot 107 — Yousuf Karsh. General Dwight D. Eisenhower. 1946.
- Lot 108 — Dave Heath. Korea. 1953-54; printed 1960s.
- Lot 109 — Philippe Halsman. J. Robert Oppenheimer. 1958.
- Lot 110 — Osvaldo Salas. Con Hemingway (Fidel Castro with Ernest Hemingway). 1960; printed circa 1997.
- Lot 111 — Alberto Korda. Che Guevara. 1960; printed 1980s.
- Lot 112 — Rene Burri. A trio of portraits of Ernesto Guevara (Che), Havana, Cuba. 1963; printed later.
- Lot 113 — Tom Howard. Execution of Ruth Snyder (the first woman to be executed and first photo of execution by electric chair). 1928.
- Lot 114 — Peter Leibing. Leap into Freedom [East German soldier Hans Conrad Schumann jumping barbed wire barricade to freedom as he defects from East Berlin]. 1961; print
- Lot 115 — Malcolm Browne. Burning Monk, South Vietnam. 1963; printed 1969.
- Lot 116 — Eddie Adams. General Nguyen Ngoc Loan Executing Viet Cong Prisoner Nguyen Van Lém, Saigon. 1968; printed 1969.
- Lot 117 — Sergeant Robert L. Haeberle. Bodies of women and children are shown on a road leading from the village of My Lai massacre, South Vietnam. 1968; printed 1971.
- Lot 118 — Bob Adelman. Joining the flock, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. 1963; printed before 1979.
- Lot 119 — Garry Winogrand. Dealey Plaza, Dallas (site of John F. Kennedy's assassination). 1964; printed 1970s.
- Lot 120 — Gordon Parks. Muhammad Ali's Fists. 1966; printed 1980s.
- Lot 121 — Pirkle Jones. Free Huey Rally, Black Panther Party, Sacramento. 1968; printed 1970s.
- Lot 122 — An archive with approximately 65 photographs documenting Black Youth from the Black Star Photo Press Agency. 1964-81.
- Lot 123 — Bob Adelman. No Man is an Island, Kelly Ingram Park, Birmingham, Alabama (Civil Rights demonstrators). 1963; printed 1970s.
- Lot 124 — Matt Herron. Vote, Selma March. 1965; printed 1975.
- Lot 125 — Moneta J. Sleet. Mrs. Coretta Scott King and her daughter Bernice at the funeral of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Atlanta. 1968; printed 1970s.
- Lot 126 — John Filo. Kent State Shooting (Mary Ann Vecchio leaning over the body of Jeffrey Miller). 1970; printed 1971.
- Lot 127 — Fred McDarrah. George McGovern and Coretta King, Political Campaign. June 12, 1972.
- Lot 128 — Danny Lyon. Mary, Santa Marta, Columbia. 1972.
- Lot 129 — Susan Meiselas. Before the Show, Tunbridge, Vermont, from the series Carnival Strippers. 1974; printed 1980s.
- Lot 130 — George Dureau. Sonny Singleton. Circa 1976.
- Lot 131 — Dawoud Bey. Boy Eating a Foxy Pop, Brooklyn. 1988.
- Lot 132 — Edward Steichen. Heavy Roses, Voulangis, France. 1914; printed 1996.
- Lot 133 — Eugène Atget. Clématites (Clematis). Circa 1915-19; printed circa 1950.
- Lot 134 — Imogen Cunningham. Partridge Aloe. 1925; printed circa 1970.
- Lot 135 — Edward Weston. Nautilus Shell. 1927; printed 1970s by Cole Weston.
- Lot 136 — Edward Weston. Pepper No. 30. 1930; printed 1970s by Cole Weston.
- Lot 137 — Brett Weston. Leaves. 1952; printed circa 1970.
- Lot 138 — Josef Sudek. Egg on Plate. Circa 1962.
- Lot 139 — Minor White. Beginnings, Frosted Window, Rochester, N.Y. 1962; printed circa 1970.
- Lot 140 — Minor White. Ivy, Portland, Oregon. 1964.
- Lot 141 — Paul Caponigro. Sunflower Vase, Millerton, NY. 1970.
- Lot 142 — Marion Post Wolcott. Center of town after blizzard, Woodstock, VT. 1940; printed 1980s.
- Lot 143 — Sol Libsohn. Trucker, from his series "The Trucking Story." 1945.
- Lot 144 — O. Winston Link. Hester Fringer's Living Room on the Tracks. 1955; printed 1999.
- Lot 145 — O. Winston Link. Hotshot Eastbound, Iaeger, West Virginia. 1956; printed 1970s.
- Lot 146 — Eliot Porter. Spruce Trees in Fog, Great Spruce Head Island, Maine. August 20, 1954; printed 1970s.
- Lot 147 — W. Eugene Smith. Lines of Steel, Pittsburgh. 1955-56; printed circa 1970.
- Lot 148 — A vast archive of more than 1000 photographs depicting American trains and locomotives. Circa 1891-1970; printed 1960s-70s.
- Lot 149 — O. Winston Link. Ghost Town, Stanley, VA. 1957; printed 1993.
- Lot 150 — Wynn Bullock. Floating Logs. 1957.
- … and 138 more lots
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