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…

The Photography At Auction Digest

Looking back at the year’s photography auctions, several interesting themes were revealed such as Christie’s holding the highest number of photography auctions this year, with 12 sales under their belt, yet Phillips had the highest combined sales total and highest sell-through rates. As with previous years, 2018 proved that it is still a man’s world…

The Most Expensive Photograph of The Year

2018 has been a steady year for sales of photography at auction, with roughly 25 photography-specific auctions hosted by the three major auction houses; Christie’s, Phillips and Sotheby’s, but will its performance go down as a stellar year for photography?  As photography’s popularity as a commodity has increased over the last two decades, we have…

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:…

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…