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Contemporary + Modern: Art & Design

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  2025-10-25 11:00:00 2025-10-25 11:00:00 America/New_York Circle Auction Circle Auction : Contemporary + Modern: Art & Design https://bid.circle-auction.com/auctions/circle-auction/contemporary-modern-art-design-19268
Circle Auction is proud to present the October 2025 auction Modern & Contemporary: Art and Design, featuring fine art by Wolf Kahn, Wilbur Niewald, William S. Burroughs, Salvador Dali, Ken Ferguson, Dean Mitchell, Lonnie Powell, Grandma Layton, Peter Max, Philomene Bennett, Stanley Lewis, Michael Stack, Janet Kuemmerlein, and Barbara Mueller. Modern design by George Nakashima, Paul McCobb, Charles & Ray Eames, Gino Sarfatti, Eero Saarinen, T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, Jack Cartwright, Russell Woodard, Jane & Gordon Martz, Peter Hvidt & Orla Molgaard Nielsen, Richard Schultz, and John Follis.
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Lot 65

Massive Curated Collection of Photography Books

Estimate: $2,000 - $4,000
Starting Bid
$1,500

Bid Increments

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A complete curated library of fine art photography and journalistic photography, comprising over 375 titles. The collection includes monographs of individual photographers and institutional collections, as well as surveys of timelines, movements, and themes. Many of the books were published in the 1970s and 1980s, though there are books through the 2010s and certain selections back to the earlier 20th century. The shelving in the first catalog photo measures 93" x 71". Some photographers' signatures through the collection, we will update the catalog with some of those names before the auction concludes.

 

There are books on the work of photographers including: Richard Avedon, Walker Evans, Ansel Adams, Alfred Stieglitz, Annie Leibovitz, Edward Weston, Andre Kertesz, Diane Arbus, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Mapplethorpe, Irving Penn, Dorothea Lange, W. Eugene Smith, Man Ray, Margaret Bourke-White, Robert Capa, Robert Adams, David Hockney, Robert Rauschenberg, William Klein, Mary Ellen Mark, Stephen Shore, Garry Winogrand, Edward Steichen, Arnold Newman, Yousuf Karsh, Edward Sheriff Curtis, Robert Frank, Julia Margaret Cameron, Paul Strand, Sebastião Salgado, Ben Shahn, Bruce Davidson, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Lewis Hine, Weegee, Lee Friedlander, Nan Goldin, William Wegman, Josef Koudelka, Joel-Peter Witkin, Aaron Siskind, Arthur Tress, Bill Brandt, Arno Minkkinen, Nicholas Nixon, Bill Owens, Danny Lyon, Barbara Kruger, Josef Sudek, Duane Michals, Eugene Atget, Frank Gohlke, Harry Callahan, Jerry Uelsmann, John Pfahl, Judy Dater, Kenneth Josephson, Linda Connor, Lucas Samaras, Minor White, Paul Caponigro, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Ray Metzker, Richard Misrach, Thomas Barrow, William Christenberry, Jacob Riis, Patrick Nagatani, Beaumont Newhall, Doris Ulmann, Keith Carter, Michael A. Smith, Arthur Rothstein, Todd Walker, Olivia Parker, Roy DeCarava, Constance Sullivan, Lewis Morley, Barney Ames, Jack Fulton, Michel Szulc Krzyzanowski, Viggo Rivad, M. Alvarez Bravo, Mario Giacomelli, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Marion Post Wolcott, Barbara Brooks Morgan, James Alinder, Barry Shapiro, Southworth & Hawes, Samuel Bourne, Luis Gonzalez Palma, Alan Brownjohn, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, William Clift, Ronald Wohlauer, John Berger, Aenne Biermann, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Alvarez Bravo, Jacob Holdt, Eliot Porter, John Sternfeld, Rhondal McKinney, Andreas Feininger, John Speicher, Marsha Burns, Lucien Clergue, William Ivans Jr., Nancie Gee, Jim Goldberg, Robert Dawson, Tom Patton, Arthur Tress, Marta Hoepffner, August Sander, Berenice Abbott, Melissa Harris, Brassai, Raul Corrales Forno, Hugh Merrill, Terry Evans, Bernard Faucon, Eugene Goldbeck, Charles Negre, Charles Sheeler, Jill Freedman, Nancy Burson, Harry Lapow, Phyllis Lambert, Judith Golden, Gisele Freund, Danny Markey, Enrico Natali, Sally Eauclaire, Nathan Lyons, David Ostrich, David Wojnarowicz, Mike Disfarmer, Rainer Hildebrandt, Don Worth, EJ Bellocq, Eric Salomon, Charles Desmarais, Carol Di Grappa, Rita Blitt, George Barnard, Gjon Mili, Helen Levitt, Holly Roberts, Donald Bakely, J. Michael Lardizabal, Lorraine Monk, Imogen Cunningham, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Sune Jonsson, Andrea Modica, Jon Erikson, Frederick Sommer, A.J. Russell, Susan Sontag, Fay Godwin, Jimmy Forsyth, Adam Clark Vroman, Wright Morris, Stanislas Kostka, Andrea Glenn, and more.

 

To request a PDF with a list of titles and information, please email us at info@circle-auction.com.

Condition

Variable condition, overall good.

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