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

JONATHAN BECKER: A Vanity Fair Retrospective

Robert Mapplethorpe at his Whitney Retrospective, 1988
Copyright © Jonathan Becker / Vanity Fair

Brassaï, Eze, 1982 © Jonathan Becker / Steven Kasher Gallery

Madonna, Martha Graham, and Calvin Klein, N.Y., 1990
Copyright © Jonathan Becker / Vanity Fair

Arthur Miller
Copyright © Jonathan Becker / Vanity Fair

"After the requisite “NO”, followed by a long, debilitating night/morning of Jack Daniels and memorable palaver I can’t remember, Frank Sinatra finally acquiesced with the simple, syncopated, “One pitcher”. He kept his word the next afternoon. I got my picture for Town & Country. Never have I been so careful with the shutter-trigger".

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JONATHAN BECKER began contributing to Vanity Fair in 1981. His portraits of filmmaker Louis Malle and of Becker’s mentor and friend Brassaï featured largely in the prototype for the magazine’s relaunch, in 1983. Becker’s specialty in portraits, photographed by and large on location, soon became a Vanity Fair staple: Robert Mapplethorpe, Arthur Miller, Jocelyn Wildenstein, and Martha Graham with Madonna and Calvin Klein as well as countless socialites, artists, and heads of state. Assignments for the magazine sent Becker from the Amazonian jungle, for first-encounter photographs of members of the Yanomami tribe, to Buckingham Palace, for the first photographs showing the Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles together. Over the course of work for the Rockefeller Foundation, Becker documented its funded projects on five continents. Three books of Becker's work have been published: Bright Young Things; Studios by the Sea, Artists of Long Island’s East End; and Bright Young Things: London. (bio from Vanity Fair)

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A JONATHAN BECKER RETROSPECTIVE

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