La maison de vente américaine Sotheby's a remplacé Londres par Paris pour organiser sa vente annuelle de photographie, qui se tient au mois de mai. Les anglaises Christie's et Phillips de Pury maintiennent leur vente de photographie à Londres, quelques jours après Sotheby's.

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On 10 May 2011, Sotheby’s European Photographs department will hold two photographs sales: L’Essentiel Heinz Hajek-Halke an auction which comprises the most compelling vintage prints from the 1920s to the 1950s of this German avant-garde photographer coming to auction directly from the artist’s estate, and Photographies a vario...

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On 10 May 2011, Sotheby’s European Photographs department will hold two Photographs sales: L’essentiel Heinz Hajek-Halke an auction which comprises the most compelling vintage prints from the 1920s to the 1950s of this German avant-garde photographer coming to auction directly from the artist’s estate, and Photographies a various owner sale offering an exceptional selection...

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Sotheby's May 2010 auction of Photographs features remarkable works from all periods of the history of photography.

Amongst the highlights of the sale is an exquisite albumen print of the eminent La Villette, rue Asselin, fille publique faisant le quart devant sa porte, 1921 by the famous and acclaimed early 20th century French photographer Eugène Atget.

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This large-format monograph is the first extensive review of the work of Heinz Hajek-Halke, an unrecognized pioneer of early twentieth-century experimental photography. Hajek-Halke surmounted the purely documentary nature of the medium in the turbulent 1920s to develop a variety of aesthetically challenging photo-manipulation and montage techniques. He used these methods not only in excellent c...

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Heinz Hajek-Halke fait partie de ces très rares artistes demeurés en Allemagne durant la guerre et qui tentèrent après 1945 de renouer avec le fil d'une pratique d'avant-garde qui avait été la leur dans les années 20.
Réalisée à partir du fonds très complet conservé par le photographe Michael Ruetz, cette...

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Streetlife - Photographs from our collections 1930-1975

In addition to the Soulas exhibition 50 original photographs from our collections, titled "Streetlife" are on show. The selection documents a forty-year development of reportage photography.

During the Weimar Republic the first photo shots in public areas -on the streets- documenting focal pointsand ...

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Heinz Hajek-Halke: Form from Light and Shadow

With his collages and experiments, his nude studies and advertising photographs, Heinz Hajek-Halke belongs to the big names among the pioneers of photography in the 1920s and early 1930s in Germany. His 'combi-photographs' innovatively combined photographs with text and graphic elements. A trained graphic designer, Hajek-Halke had his...

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