NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries’ Thursday, October 16 auction of Fine Photographs features the full spectrum of the history of the photographic medium, including work by Andy Warhol, Garry Winogrand, Herb Ritts, and Eugène Atget.

Highlights depicting the American West include Ansel Adams’s sublime Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada, from Lone Pine, California, 1944, printed April 1978 ($25,000-35,000), and Sierra Nevada, Winter from the Owens Valley, California, 1944, printed December 1978 ($20,000-30,000), Edward Steichen’s The May Pole (The Empire State Building), 1932 ($10,000-15,000), George Tice’s Petit’s Mobil Station and Watertower, Cherry Hill, N.J., 1974, printed 1988 ($8,000-12,000), and Fan Ho’s Two by Two, 1969, printed 1978 ($7,000-10,000). Other works that depict the American scene include Lewis W. Hine’s Welders on the Empire State Building, circa 1930 ($10,000-15,000).

Robert Mapplethorpe’s extraordinary Phillip on Pedestal (front), 1979 ($6,000-9,000), and Herb Ritt’s Wrapped Torso, Los Angeles, 1989 ($10,000-15,000) fill out studies of the human form, and Henri Cartier-Bresson’s dynamic L’Araignée d’amour, Mexico, 1934, printed later ($15,000-20,000), and Eugène Atget’s Coiffeur, Avenue de l’Observatoire, Paris, 1926 ($25,000-35,000), the luminous French Humanists.

The auction will also showcase a rare example of Steve McCurry’s Children, portfolio, 2010, complete with 10 color photographs, including his iconic Afghan Girl ($15,000-20,000); as well as an undocumented set of 65 photographs by Baron Adolf de Meyer titled Portraits of American Women, circa 1913 ($25,000-35,000). Richard Avedon’s Andy Warhol, Artist, New York City, 8-20-69, 1969, printed 1975 ($8,000-12,000); and an early example of Nat Fein’s iconic Babe Bows Out, 1949 ($4,000-6,000). Images by Andy Warhol include a 1974 Polaroid of the designer Halston, Halston I (Roy Halston Frowick) ($4,000-6,000), and Self-portrait in a photo booth, 1963 ($3,000-4,500).

The contemporary portion is headlined by Barbara Kasten’s Photogenic Painting 74, 1974 ($15,000-20,000), as well as two extraordinary works by Hiroshi Sugimoto, Palms, Michigan, 1980 ($15,000-25,000), and Rosecrans Drive-In, Paramount, 1993 ($15,000-25,000), and Carrie Mae Weems, Untitled (ceramic plate with portrait of Saidiya Hartman), silver print embedded in resin on patterned ceramic plate, 1990 ($3,000-4,000).

Rounding out the auction is real photo postcards from the 1913 Armory Show ($7,000-10,000), as well as the infamous 1937 Degenerate Art exhibition in Munich ($3,000-4,500), work by Photo League members, NASA imagery, and much more.

Exhibition hours are 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, October 11 and Monday, October 13, through Wednesday, October 15. Bidding is available through online platforms, absentee, the phone, and live in-person.