Sotheby's Photographs (Highlights)

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Lot 7,8 & 9 Ansel Adams prints all going near upper end of est. c. $40,000

Lot 16 Ansel Adams driven to $80,500 by bidding well over the $35k high est.

Lot 17 Ansel Adams Oak Tree – Sun jumps to $25,000 over the $7k est.

Lot 38 Walker Evans Church Organ and Pews gets a nice pop to $16,250 against $7k est. following bigger pop for Saratoga pic yesterday.

Lot 46 Eisenstadt Farewell to Servicemen provokes some interest at $21,250

Lot 57 Paul Strand Ragusa Sicily goes for $25k about 2x the high est.

Lot 74 Anonymous Daguerreotype goes for $62,500 against $25k est. This is getting to be a theme for these sales.

Lot 94 Paul Outerbridge, Jr. Egg in Spotlight makes $40,625 on $25k high est. Most of Outerbridges in sale find eager buyers.

Lot 99 sells toward top of est. range at $50k

Lot 102 Outerbridge Still Life with Red and Blue Flowers $25,000 over $7k est.

$1.396m at half-time. Coverage and sale resume at 2pm.

Lot 106 Cartier-Bresson Rue Mouffetard goes to $26,250

Lot 116 Man Ray Lee Miller and Friend sells for $98,500, just about the top of the est.

Lot 123 Man Ray Rayograph solid sale at $31,250

Lot 124 Man Ray enlargement of Rayograph $22,500

Lot 139 Moholy-Nagy Fotoplastik sells well for $50k spot in the middle.

Lot 146 Robert Frank McClellanville, SC It’s Frank-o-mania with several lots of Robert Frank selling well at high end of est range but then this (above) $50k work topping out at $182,500!

Lot 167 Leibovitz small print of John Lennon and Yoko Ono makes a strong $28,125

Lot 178 Mapplethorpe Calla Lily $80,500, no surprises

Lots 181, 182 & 183 Three Irving Penn lots sell in line with estimates. Last with slight premium. No shooting up prices because of his death here.