Photographs
Photographs have existed in various forms from the daguerreotypes of the early 19th century right through to today’s development of digital technology.
London dealers P & D Colnaghi have been selling photographs since the 1850s while the first photographic auctions took place in London in the mid-19th century, and though slower to take hold in the US, Alfred Stieglitz established important photographic galleries in New York during the first half of the 20th century.
Some of the most collectable photographers include Julia Margaret Cameron, Ansel Adams, Cindy Sherman, and Irving Penn.
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Cuban photographer’s favourite picture
04 March 2013This image of a young girl cradling a piece of wood for a doll by Cuban photographer Alerberto Korda is believed to have been his favourite claims his daughter, Norka Korda who has consigned a group of fifty-five photographs by her father to Dominic Winter’s sale on March 7 in South Cerney, near Cirencester.
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Owl photograph that failed to amuse the prince
22 February 2013This album, included in Sworders’ February 26 sale at Stansted Mountfitchet, contains correspondence relating to an incident over the shooting of an owl during a Royal visit to the Wynyard Park estate in 1896.
Funding boost could help Bodleian secure the Fox Talbot Archive
14 January 2013The Bodleian Library has been given a £1.2m boost in its bid to raise £2.2m by the end of February to buy an important slice of photographic history.
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Fenton photographs in Exeter?
11 January 2013Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood’s three-day fine art sale on January 29-31 in Exeter includes several photographs possibly taken by the founder of the Photographic Society, Roger Fenton (1819-69).
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Royal Family photographs appear at Charterhouse
18 July 2012In keeping with this year’s jubilee celebrations, a collection of 10 photographs of King George VI and his immediate family, including Queen Elizabeth II, will be offered at Charterhouse Auctioneers on July 26-27.
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Film pioneer’s vintage photographs
12 July 2012This original vintage photograph of Anita Ekberg, best known for her role as Sylvia in the 1960s film ‘La Dolce Vita’, is one of a number taken by celebrated cinematographer and director Jack Cardiff that will go on sale in Newbury at Special Auction Services on July 19.
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Tate acquire major photography collection
21 May 2012The Tate are to acquire a major photographic collection depicting images of London, which will go on display in a dedicated exhibition, entitled ‘Another London’, at Tate Britain at the end of July.
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Rare photographic record of Great Exhibition makes £180,000 at auction
20 June 2011WHEN a grand, photographically illustrated record of the Great Exhibition of 1851 was planned by the Royal Commissioners and Executive Committee, they nonetheless kept a tight grip on the exhibition purse strings.
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Gloucestershire sale shows Fenton in Orientalist mode
28 June 2010A GROUP of five photographs by pioneering British photographer Roger Fenton (1819-1869) sold for £100,500, some five times above their combined estimate, at Dominic Winter of South Cerney, Gloucestershire on June 17.
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Photo could be over 200 years old
14 April 2008An image that may rewrite the history of photography has been withdrawn from a Sotheby’s New York sale pending further research.
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Moving photos of Cleopatra’s Needle sold at auction
06 March 2008Historic archive from engineer who moved Egyptian obelisk surfaces in Exeter
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Photo-London: new owners, new venue, new content
19 March 2007Photo-london, the four-year-old specialist photograph fair that takes place annually in May, has a new owner, a new venue and a new slant.
Watch out for fake McBean's, expert warns
26 June 2006Bogus Angus McBean photographs have started to circulate this year. The fakes are clearly designed to cash in on a series of exhibitions about the famous surreal and theatrical photographer scheduled for July.
The man who captured Monty
05 June 2006AN unseen and apparently unique collection of photographs, letters and maps that illuminates the campaigns of Field Marshall Montgomery in the Second World War has emerged at Kent auctioneers Watermans.
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Dealer turns detective to reveal Ruskin
03 April 2006In last week’s ATG we revealed how a sketchily catalogued box of over 130 19th century photographs estimated at £80-120 in a Cumbrian auction house proved to be a cache of images made by the early daguerreotype process and ended up selling to Ken Jacobson for £75,000.
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Early photo images captured at £75,000
27 March 2006"Lot 132. A 19th century mahogany box containing a quantity of 19th century photographs: 15 small images of stonework on metal, 50 images of buildings on metal, 70 small images of buildings on metal and 14 of buildings on card. Box poor condition, many images poor condition."
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Life, but not as we know it
12 May 2005A SNATCHED moment frozen in time thanks to the lucky presence of a camera... or was it?
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Peter Pan archive sold for charity
18 January 2005Formed by screenwriter and director Andrew Birkin during research for a trilogy of plays, The Lost Boys (first broadcast in 1978) and for his biography of J.M. Barrie, a 19-lot collection that tells the story of his friendship with the Llewelyn-Davies boys and the emergence of one of the best known characters in all of children’s literature, Peter Pan, attracted a great deal of media publicity before being put up for sale at Sotheby’s on December 16.
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Nadar – before the photos
11 January 2005Nadar (1820-1910), real name Félix Tournachon, is best known as one of the leading specialists in early photographic portraits.
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