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The photobooks part of the auction includes many classics and several rarities. Take a look at the portfolio of our favorites.…

Dmitry Baltermants was born in 1912 in Warsaw, Poland, which at that time was part of the Russian Empire. Baltermants spent his childhood amidst civic dissolution, revolution, civil war, and…

In Earth Laughs In Flowers David LaChapelle appropriates the traditional Baroque still life painting in order to explore contemporary vanity, vice, the transience of earthly possessions and, ultimately, the fragility…

It was the photographic event of the year in NewYork. The openning of Cindy Sherman's exhibition at the MoMA yesterday evening. The sumptuous restrospective spreads over 11 rooms. Abe Frajndlich…

Worldwide, prisons are ʻhomeʼ to more than 9 million people, and their numbers will only increase over the coming decades. But what do our various societies seek to accomplish by…

Growing up, my mother Madje would rarely let me photograph her. But when her memory began to fail and I saw her beginning to disappear before me, I began…

It is a New York tradition that Swann Galleries kicks off the photography auction season. Among the 113 lots you will find pieces ranging from early photographs to contemporary work…

At McKeesport High School, Sonny was the news editor of The Red and Blue. During his fifteenth summer, Duane Michals found his way to Amarillo, Texas with Jimmy Connelly on…

During the Korean War, Sonny became a second lieutenant in armor when he was a green twenty-one and luckily exported to Deutschland. The alternative Korea certainly would have been his…