Sotheby’s Spring Photographs Auction On Tueday 13 April 2010, Sotheby's will offer at auction a remarkable selection of Photographs that ranges from examples of some of the earliest photographs made in America.
in biker culture, stands today as some of his finest work. Garry Winogrand's massive 85-photograph Women Are Beautiful ($60/90,000) showcases another great postwar photographer's work. The sale includes a set of 4 rare and early New York City views (each est. at $10,000-15,000 and including ‘Kids God Bless,’ left) by Roy DeCarava, believed to have been used for a Harry Belafonte television special entitled New York 19. Other postwar and contemporary works include a 1949 print of Irving Penn's Cuzco Children ($60/90,000); a suite of 10 large-format color photogravures of Flowers ($60/80,000) by Robert Mapplethorpe; Bernd and Hilla Becher's six-photograph sequence of Spherical Gastanks ($60/80,000); as well as works by Shirin Neshat, Vik Muniz, and Edward Burtynsky.
