A series of auctions suggests the market for big-name photographers is alive and well.
Photography as an asset class receives scant attention in Australian auctions, even though its egalitarian nature would seem to suit it to the local psyche.Slim Aarons’ image “Poolside Glamour”, 1970, set an auction record for the photographer when it fetched $US63,000 at Christie’s in New York on October 2, 2024.
Australian photographer Max Dupain’s “The Sunbaker, Culburra Beach”, 1937 , carries a pre-sale estimate of $US15,000 to $US25,000 in Phillips’ Photographs auction in New York on October 9, 2024.Christie’s October 2 auction, An Eye Towards the Real: Photographs from the Collection of Ambassador Trevor Traina, took place live at the Rockefeller Centre in New York. The sale totalled $US3,252,564 with 80 per cent of the 132 lots sold by number and 88 per cent by value.
, who was famous for portraying care-worn American farmers and immigrants eking out dusty livings in the Great Depression. A Sotheby’s online auction, ending on October 18, is The World of Eugène Atget: Photographs from the Museum of Modern Art, in which the New York museum is deaccessioning some of its holdings.began photographing in and around Paris in about 1890, and is today a legend. This sale includes Atget’s atmospheric images of city streets, fields with haystacks just like the onespainted, run-down streets and precarious shops.
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