CHRISTIE'S PHOTOGRAPHY AUCTION : Previews March 31 – April 2, 2019

Patti Smith, 1978

Photograph by Robert Mapplethorpe

from a Portfolio of Twelve Photogravures

by Roy DeCarava, 1956

 Lungile Cleo Dladla, 2011

Photograph by Zanele Muholi

 

 Siqourney Weaver, 1983

Photograph by Helmut Newton

Reflecting, 2006

Photograph by Mona Kuhn

Time Out and Before the Storm from Domestic Vacations, 2005

Photographs by Julie Blackmon

DPRK 001, Li Min Gyong, 

Pyongyang Schoolchildren's Palace, North Korea, 2006

Photograph by Hiroshi Watanabe

Identity #1, 2014

Photograph by Ruud Van Empel

My School of Visual Arts Photography students in front of 

Photographs from a Private Collection

Darius Himes, International Head of Photographs at Christie’s 

working with clients at the Auction Preview, March 29, 2019

Photographer Rania Matar with Darius Himes, 

Christie’s International Head of Photographs

Shells 6S, 1927

Photograph by Edward Weston

Kiki Silhouette, Positive, 1922-1938

Rayograph by Man Ray

If you love photography, do not miss Christie’s Photography Auction Preview! It is absolutely magical … over 300 photographs span the history of photography from salt prints to the most contemporary images and glorious prints from 3 Collections!

Daydreaming: 

Photographs from the Goldstein Collection

The Face of the Century: 

Photographs from a Private Collection

Photographs

Christie’s International Photography

20 Rockefeller Center (49th St), NY, NY

On View:

30 Mar, 10am - 5pm

31 Mar, 1pm - 5pm

1 Apr, 10am - 5pm

Auction: Tuesday, April 2, 2019

MODERN VISIONS | Exceptional Photographs: Christie's Auction

Edward Steichen, In Memoriam, 1901
Estimate $400,000-600,000

Edward Weston, Knees, 1927
Estimate $100,000-150,000

Roger Fenton, Images from the Crimean War, 1856

Salt prints mounted on original paper

(estimate $2,500-3,500)

Tom Gitterman checking out the photographs for his GittermanGallery clients at Christie’s "Modern Visions: Exceptional Photographs" Auction Viewing.

Man Ray, Rayograph, 1927

(estimate $5,000-7,000)

Christie’s Darius Himes, International Head of Photography (left); Christies Deputy Chairman, Philippe Garner (center); with Gitterman Gallery owner Tom Gitterman at Christie’s "Modern Visions: Exceptional Photographs" Auction Viewing. 

If you love Photography, don’t miss Christie’s "Modern Visions: Exceptional Photographs" auction viewing. The early history of photography is represented as well as contemporary work. Almost 300 photographs, each one extraordinary. CHRISTIE'S, 20 Rockefeller Plaza, NY, NY

CHRISTIE’S 

Modern Visions: Exceptional Photographs

20 Rockefeller Plaza, NY NY

 

Viewing Times
Feb 16, 10:00am - 5:00pm
Feb 17, 10:00am - 5:00pm

Auction Times
Feb 17, 6:00pm, Lots 1-69
Feb 18, 10:00am, Lots 100-201
Feb 18, 2:00pm, Lots 202-309

Buy or download the auction catalog!

2012 HOLIDAY BOOKS: A Few More Favorites II

Nadav Kander: Obama's People

Publisher: Flowers

Each subject was photographed in front of the same white backdrop, standing in a 2ft by 2ft box marked out by tape. They were asked to bring an item that disclosed something about their personality. "One guy [Senator Robert Casey] brought a basketball because he played daily with Barack Obama," says Kander. "Other people brought me ties. Ken Salazar [interior secretary] brought his cowboy hat. A lot of people said, 'Look I've got two BlackBerries.'

 REBECCA NORRIS WEBB: My Dakota

Photography and text by Rebecca Norris Webb
Edited with Alex Webb (Radius, 2012)

"In 2005, Rebecca Norris Webb set out to photograph her home state of South Dakota, a sparsely populated frontier state on the Great Plains with more buffalo, pronghorn, mule deer and prairie dogs than people." More here

 Lise Sarfati: "She" 

Text Quentin Bajac. Twin Palms Publisher, 2012

 The women in "She" have a vaporous relationship with their surrounding, their house, their streets, and their landscapes. They are shut in their neurotic attitude from where it is difficult to perceive the outside world. Read more in my Interview with Lise Sarfati...

Interview with Lise Sarfati here

 

The Unseen Eye: Photographs from The Unconscious

Aperture, 2011

Thames+Hudson, UK; Actes Sud, France

The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the W.M. Hunt Collection follow an unprecedented theme in which the subject’s eyes are averted, hidden, concealed, pierced, or missing in every photograph. Selected works include photographs by Man Ray, Irving Penn, Robert Frank, Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Edward Steichen, Robert Mapplethorpe, Berenice Abbott, and Nadar in a range of formats from daguerreotype to digital...Read more in my Interview with Wm. Hunt

Interview with W.M. Hunt here

Jerry Atnip: Gone South

Jerry Atnip's beautiful limited editioned book, "GoneSouth," images of the American South, from Tennessee to Georgia. 200 copies and includes a signed/numbered print. “Many photographers feel that they need to travel to faraway or exotic places to capture great images. I also travel the world on assignments, but enjoy recording the land I was raised in. I find I’m never at a lack for interesting subject matter throughout the South.”–Jerry Atnip

 

Tod Papageorge: Core Curriculum
Writings on Photography. Aperture , 2011

"Core Curriculum: Writings on Photography, a collection of essays, reviews and lectures by Tod Papageorge, one of the most influential voices in photography today. As the Walker Evans Professor of Photography at the Yale University School of Art, Papageorge has shaped the work and thought of generations of artist-photographers, and, through his critical writings he has earned a reputation as an unusually eloquent and illuminating guide to the work of many of the most important figures in twentieth century photography. Among the artists Papageorge discusses in this essential volume are Eugène Atget, Brassaï, Robert Frank (with Walker Evans), Robert Adams and his close friend Garry Winogrand."

2012 BOOKS: A Few Favorites I

SEBASTIAN LI EVENTS: Homegrown Tulips for Spring!

Photograph (c) Sebastian Li

Photograph (c) Sebastian Li

Photograph (c) Sebastian Li

SEBASTIAN LI EVENTS

Homegrown flowers from my friend Sebastian Li's own garden. Sebastian (named after Evelyn Waugh's character in Brideshead Revisited by his mother, painter Poco Murphy) comes from a long line of avant-garde artists and film makers. His maternal Grandmother, Katherine Hawley Murphy, was an Isadora Duncan dancer and famous model for photographers Man Ray and Arnold Genthe. His Grandfather, film director Dudley Murphy, is best remembered for his films St. Louis Blues (1929) with Bessie Smith, Black and Tan Fantasy (1929) with Duke Ellington and Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones (1933), starring Paul Robeson. Dudley collaborated on projects with French artist Fernand Léger, Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway and James Joyce. He opened Malibu's first hip watering hole, The Holiday House, designed by architect Richard Neutra. In the early '60s you'd find Lee Marvin, Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe and dozens of others at his hideaway. (More about Dudley Murphy and Malibu via Sebastian's uncle Michael Murphy).

As an Event Planner, Sebastian offers distinctive designs and production for every occasion. His design philosophy is to make events “clean and elegant with high visual impact.” Fresh flowers, fragrant greenery and spectacular trees for private homes, commercial settings and holiday events.

SEBASTIAN LI EVENTS

New York and East Hampton