The 20 Most Expensive Photographs Sold At Auction [January 2019]

Though a list of the top 20 most expensive photographs sold at auction was previously published on Photography At Auction, here is a revised list of the top 20 photographs known to have sold at auction, in ascending order and adjusted into US dollars. 20 Cindy Sherman Untitled 92. Sold at Christie’s New York in November…

Fast Facts: The Oldest and Youngest Photographs

With the Photography at Auction Digest volume 1 now available to buy and download, there are lots of interesting nuggets of information to be discovered about 2018’s year in photographic sales such as the oldest photograph in the data, and the ‘youngest’: Most recent image to be captured and sell at auction in 2018 was…

Fact Checking: The Most Expensive Photographs Sold at Auction

During research for the upcoming Digest it became apparent that the previously published lists of the most expensive photographs to be sold at auction are wrong

Photography News, Autumn 2018

A quick round up of photography items of interest this autumn, looking at a new wave of curators and heads at various galleries across the world, another arrested photographer and the ‘best’ photography exhibitions of the year: Quentin Bajac leaves MoMA for Jeu de Plume: LeMonde.fr Katie Hollander becomes Director of Annenberg Space for Photography:…

Preliminary Auction Dates: 2019

Photography auctions are already scheduled for 2019, here are the preliminary dates…

Fashion Photographs Online Auction

Sotheby’s are hosting several online auctions currently, including one photography auction: Fashion Photographs Online. The auction runs until the 7th December with 25 lots available from photographers such as Norman Parkinson (featured), Peter Lindbergh and Horst P. Horst. Though these online capsule auctions rarely offer up any seismic sales, they are a great opportunity to…

Sotheby’s Modernism Results, Nov

The Modernism: Photographs from a Distinguished Private Collection sale was an unusual auction held on the same day as the Photographies auction at Sotheby’s Paris headquarters. The auction was billed as follows: ‘The collection celebrates Modernism photography through the lens of Edward Steichen, Alexander Rodchenko, Paul Strand and Margaret Watkins. Masterworks from the collection includes Cello…

Sotheby’s Photographies Results, Nov

Following on from auctions from Phillips and Christie’s, Sotheby’s has hosted their November photography auctions starting with Photographies at their headquarters in Paris. With 75 lots available from iconic artists like Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton and Man Ray, and French photographers including Eugene Atget, Joseph Philbert Girault de Prangey and Edouard Boubet, the sale brought…