Swann Galleries: Fine Photographs, 2725, New York

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
December 16, 2025 - December 16, 2025
Page Size: 307 items in 13 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
51 Fairchild Aerial Surveys.

Woolworth Building in the clouds, New York City.

June 4, 1927. USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 USD 5,080.00
52

Group of 12 press photographs of pioneering aviatrix Amelia Earhart (1897-1937).

1928-37. USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 2,794.00
53

A selection of 10 photographs of dirigibles.

Circa 1929-33. USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 792.00
54 Willi Ruge.

Photo of Myself at the Moment of my Jump.

1931 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 6,350.00
55

Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), lawyer, thinker, anti-colonial activist, and political ethicist, in India.

1930s. USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 698.00
56

The Scourged Back by McPherson & Oliver.

Circa 1863; printed 1970s. USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,270.00
57 Robert Capa.

The Falling Soldier.

1936; printed circa 1960. USD 3,000.00 - 4,500.00 USD 4,318.00
58 Bradford Washburn.

Self-portrait of the American explorer and mountaineer with his Fairchild serial K-6 camera.

July 1938; printed 1947. USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 412.00
59 Robert Capa.

American troops landing on D-Day, Omaha Beach, near Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy coast.

June 6, 1944; printed circa 1985. USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 4,318.00
60

A group of 14 official photographs of nuclear testing and atomic bomb explosions at Bikini Atoll.

July-September 1946. USD 3,000.00 - 4,500.00 Not Sold
61 Arnold Newman.

J. Robert Oppenheimer, Berkeley, California.

1948; printed 1990s. USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,413.00
62 Ivy Mike" Nuclear Test on Elugelab. November 1, 1952.

Ivy Mike" Nuclear Test on Elugelab. November 1, 1952.

1952 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 990.00
63 Robert Capa.

Immigrant Tent Camp, near Jaifa, Israel.

1948; printed 1950s. USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,778.00
64 Horst Faas.

Approximately 66 photographs taken on assignment in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, China and Tibet, the Middle East, Indonesia, and Africa.

1961-75. USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,452.00
65 Malcolm Browne.

Burning Monk, South Vietnam.

1963; printed 1975. USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 924.00
66 A pair of N.A.S.A.

Lunar Surveyor Mosaics: Day 320, Survey I, Sectors 17 and 18 * Day 327. Survey AA, Sectors 15 and 16.

1966-68. USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,064.00
67 A N.A.S.A.

presentation piece featuring 5 iconic shots from Apollo 11's Moon landing.

1969 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 792.00
68 A selection of 12 N.A.S.A.

photographs from Voyagers I (8) and II (4), including sublime views of Jupiter and Saturn. Launched 1977; encountered Jupiter and Saturn 1979-81.

1977; 1979-81. USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,794.00
69

Photographs from the Collection of the Gilman Paper Company.

1985 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 3,556.00
70 Jacob Riis.

Reporters Office at 301 Mulberry Street.

1887-88; printed 1950s. USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
71 Lewis W. Hine.

One of the smallest doffers in the Atherton Mill, Charlotte, NC.

January 1909. USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 Not Sold
72 Jessie Tarbox Beals.

Room in a Tenement Flat, Lower East Side, N.Y.C.

Circa 1910. USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Not Sold
73 Lewis W. Hine.

Chicago tenements.

Circa 1910. USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 635.00
74 Lewis W. Hine.

Girl at the drawing-in-frame of the weave-room, Lorraine Mills, Pawtucket, RI.

1912 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 Not Sold
75 Arthur Mole (1889-1983) & John Thomas (active 1918-1919).

A group of 4 patriotic "living photographs," each image comprised of thousands of enlisted soldiers.

1917-19. USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 Not Sold
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