Vendredi 12 Juin 2015 11:57:46 par Laure Chastant dans Ventes

On Sunday, 28th of June 2015, Photography-Auction will hold its inaugural auction.

Our mission is to offer broad access to the best works of photography without restrictions on minimum consignment values and at low premiums for sellers and buyers. Our concept 'Photography Only - Online Only’ is unique in the current art market and brings us back what auctions historically used to be: a place where art dealers and collectors can buy at market prices instead of paying retail prices. A competitive buyer’s and seller’s premium - set at just 10% - contributes to this goal.

The title image of the catalogue, lot 034, is by Richard Selby (1933, London), a rediscovered master photographer who became famous in 1960s and 1970s. This large vintage print of "Bird” (dated 1979) was the cover of his well-received book "Know Your Number”.

© Will McBride, Untitled from Show Me / Zeig Mal, 1974, estimate € 400 - € 500, start bid € 300.

Highlights include work by (former) Magnum photographers Henri Cartier-Bresson (Marseille, 1932), Robert Capa (General Montgomery in Normandy, France, 1945), estimated € 2.000 - € 3.000, start bid € 1.250, Sebastiao Salgado (The Outskirts of Guatamala City, 1978, estimated € 2.000 - € 3.000, start bid € 1.500 and Micha Bar-Am (Funeral at Yerka, 1968), estimated € 400 - € 600, start bid € 200. There are six prints on offer by Philippe Halsman, including "Portrait of Marilyn, 1952” and "Salvador Dalí, Tuna Fishing, 1970”.

© Venancio Diaz Maique, Wagon on sugar plantation, 1949, estimate € 3.000 - € 4.000, start bid € 2.000.

Numerous signed press prints from Helmut Newton, Jeanloup Sieff, Nobuyoshi Araki, Peter Lindbergh, Steven Meisel, Annie Leibovitz and Jan Saudek fall just beyond the scope of museum and gallery prints, but constitute nice collector’s items. Featured contemporary photographers are Stefanie Schneider, Lilya Corneli, Oleg Misheyev and Thomas Struth.