NEW YORK, NY.- On Thursday, June 14 at 10am, Doyle will hold an auction of Photographs. The sale will offer 19th century photography, including a collection of daguerreotypes, as well as photographs by Curtis, Negré. Durandelle and others. 20th century examples feature work by many major figures, among them Berenice Abbott, Edward Steichen, Margaret Bourke-White, Alfred Stieglitz, Aaron Siskind, Ellen Auerbach, Paul Caponigro and Harry Callahan. Contemporary photography offers work by such artists as Robert Mapplethorpe, Nan Goldin, Bert Stern, Hiroshi Sugimoto and Peter Beard. 

Just the mention of the name Ansel Adams (1902-1984) brings to mind expansive vistas of the American west, the meeting of dramatic skies, sheer mountains and glistening rivers. An acknowledged darkroom master, his spellbinding images are best viewed as intended by the artist, in the large format gelatin silver photographs that he printed himself and signed gently in pencil on the mounts below. From 1962 is his arresting photograph of Evening Clouds and Pool, East Side of the Sierra from the Owens Valley, California, deaccessioned from The College of New Rochelle (est. $12,000-18,000). 

Lot 42. Ansel Adams (1902-1984), Evening Clouds and Pool, East Side of the Sierra from the Owens Valley, California, 1962. Gelatin silver print, 15 1/4 x 19 1/2 inches (387 x 495 mm) , signed in pencil in lower right mount, titled, dated, and numbered with artist's stamp on mount verso. With deaccession stamp on mount verso. Estimate: $12,000 - $18,000. © Doyle

C The College of New Rochelle.

A 1926 photograph by Edward Steichen (1879-1973) captures Brancusi's Endless Column in Steichen's garden at Voulagis, France. The photographer and sculptor were close friends, having met at Rodin's studio in 1907. This twenty-four foot sculpture was carved from a tree on the grounds. The sculpture was conceived as site-specific, so this photograph, beyond its importance as a Steichen work, is a significant piece of art documentation (est. $10,000-15,000). 

Edward Steichen (1879-1973), Brancusi's Endless Column, 1926. Vintage gelatin silver print on matte paper, 9 7/8 x 8 inches (252 x 222 mm), annotated in an unknown hand in pencil on verso "Eternity as M. Brancusi the sculptor conceives it". Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000. © Doyle

Brancusi's Endless Column is shown here in Edward Steichen's garden at Voulagis, France. The photographer and sculptor were close friends, having met at Rodin's studio in 1907. This twenty-four foot sculpture was carved from a tree on the grounds. The sculpture was conceived as site-specific, so this photograph, beyond its importance as a Steichen work, is a significant piece of art documentation. Provenance: Didier Imbert F.A., Paris; David Grob; Christien Zervos, Paris; Phillips New York October 25, 2002 ($16,730). . Handling crease in upper left quadrant, faint trace of a cropping line in graphite at right. 

Imogen Cunningham’s 1925 Magnolia Blossom was recognized as an innovative work early on, chosen as it was for the seminal Modernist Internationale Ausstellung des Deutschen Werkbunds Film und Foto held at the Städtische Ausstellungshallen in 1929, an exhibition which helped define what László Moholy-Nagy termed “New Vision” photography. Cunningham has transformed the blossom into a near-abstract study of light, shade and form, imbued with a quiet luminosity (est. $10,000-15,000).