Ansel Adams. "Fern Spring, Dusk, Yosemite Valley, California." Silver print, 12 1/4x9 inches (31.1x22.9 cm.), signed by Adams, in pencil, on mount recto, with the hand-editioned caption labels on verso. Circa 1961; printed 1974.

NEW YORK.- Swann Galleries, Inc. will hold an auction of Photographic Literature & Important Photographs Tuesday, May 22. Among the works of Photographic Literature to be auctioned at Swann Galleries on Tuesday May 22 at 10:30 a.m. is a rare copy of Peter Henry Emerson and T.F. Goodall's classic Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads, with 40 original platinum print photographs of the picturesque lakes and marshlands of Norfolk, England, 1886. Emerson was an avid early champion of photography as an art form, and he demonstrated its potential masterfully in this groundbreaking work, which was his first book (estimate: $75,000 to $100,000). Lire la suite http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=20246