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Lucas Samaras, 1973, Photo-Transformation 10/31/73 (Ear), [Photo-Transformations], Manipulated Polaroid SX-70 print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/74040
Larry Sultan, 1986, Practicing Golf Swing, [Pictures from Home], Chromogenic print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/58495
Raphael Mazzucco (b. 1970), 2013, From Grace she will Fall, Collage, Sotheby's - New York, LL/80544
Alex Prager, 2014, Simi Valley, Archival pigment print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/74026
Francesca Woodman, 1975-1976, Untitled, Providence, Rhode Island, Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/43161
Alfred Boisseau (artist, 1823-1901), 1895, The Photographer, Oil on canvas laid down on board, Sotheby's - New York, LL/127020
Ansel Adams, 1958 (taken) 1968 (before, print), Siesta Lake, Yosemite National Park, California, Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/73993
Diane Arbus, 1968, A Family On the Lawn One Sunday In Westchester, N.Y., Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/29064
William Eggleston, 1983, Monkey Statuette, Graceland, Chromogenic print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/58526
Ansel Adams, 1932 (ca, taken) 1979 (print), Half Dome, Orchard, Winter, Yosemite National Park, Cal., Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/73992
Ruth Orkin, 1945 (ca), Mothers Protesting, Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/74018
Francesca Woodman, 1976-1977 (ca), Contact sheet (Self-portrait, Providence, Rhole Island), Gelatin silver print, contact sheet, Sotheby's - New York, LL/58544
Eliot Porter, 1979, Portfolio cover for Eliot Porter, 1979, Eliot Porter: Intimate Landscapes, (New York: Daniel Wolf Press), Portfolio cover, Sotheby's - New York, LL/58447
Herb Ritts, 1989, Stephanie, Cindy, Christly, Tatjana, Naomi, Hollywood, Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/80514
Unidentified photographer (American), 1849, Gouverneur Kemble E. Warren as a West Point Cadet, Daguerreotype, 1/2 plate, Sotheby's - New York, LL/58457
Andy Warhol, 1979 (ca), Farrah Fawcett, Polacolar Type 108 print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/38098
Lewis Baltz, 1974, Industrial structure during painting, Irvine, [New Industrial Parks near Irvine, California], Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/58518
Harry Callahan, 1950 (taken) 1958 (no later, print), Trees and Mist (Chicago, Trees in Snow), Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/38095
Unidentified photographer, 1850s (mid), A Group of Distinguished Women, Daguerreotype, 1/2 plate, hand-tinting and gilt-detail, Sotheby's - New York, LL/74005
David Levinthal, 1996, Cowboy with Lasso, [Wild West], Polacolor print, large format, Sotheby's - New York, LL/38096
Larry Sultan, 1984-1987, Los Angeles, Early Evening, [Pictures from Home], Chromogenic print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/58497
F. Holland Day, 1897-1899, Untiitled (Right Panel of Triptych Armageddon), [Armageddon], Platinum print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/74015
Andy Warhol, 1979, The 'Polaroid Collections/Do Not Remove' stamp, the "Innovation / Imagination: 50 years of Polaroid Photography" exhibition label, and the "Instant Likeness: Polaroid Portraits" Exhibition label, Print, reverse, Sotheby's - New York, LL/38091
Dorothea Lange, 1936 (taken) 1958 (no later, print), Peapickers Family (Migrant Mother, Nipomo), Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/38094
Walter Niedermayr, 2008, Mer de Glace, [Alpine Landscapes], Chromogenic prints (2), diptych, Sotheby's - New York, LL/74045
Ernst Haas, 1970, Yellow Balloon, New Orleans, Louisiana, Chromogenic print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/74022
Wilbert H. Wier (Kearney Ave., San Diego, CA, USA), 1940s, Plaster Plant #2, Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/43165
David LaChapelle, 2003, Evidence of a Miraculous Event, [Jesus is my Homeboy], Chromogenic print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/74049
Vik Muniz, 2001, Tackle, [Pictures of Chocolate], Cibachrome print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/58530
Vik Muniz, 1998, Torso (After Frantisek Drtikol), [Pictures of Soil], Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/58533
Irving Penn, 1975, Playing Card, Platinum-palladium print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/74003
Harry Benson, 1964 (taken, later print), The Beatles, Paris (Pillow Fight), Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/80528
Lewis W. Hine, 1905 (taken) 1920s (? print), Immigrants, Ellis Island (Italians looking for lost luggage), Gelatin silver print, warm-toned, Sotheby's - New York, LL/58458
Unidentified designer, 2012, 3 October, Catalogue for the Photographs sale on 3 October 2012 - iPad app, Digital image, Sotheby's - New York, LL/48912
Robert Frank, 1961 (taken, later print), Venice, Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/74025
Ansel Adams, 1958 (taken) 1973-1979 (?, print), Aspens, Northern New Mexico, Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/58441
Robert Mapplethorpe, 1970s (early), The "Polaroids: Mapplethorpe" exhibition label, Print, reverse, Sotheby's - New York, LL/38093
Berenice Abbott, 1937, Old Law Tenements from Forsyth and East Houston Streets, [Changing New York], Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/58485
Alma Lavenson, 1932 (taken) 1986 (print), Self-Portrait, Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/74032
Hill & Adamson, 1845 (ca), Just Landed, Newhaven, Salt print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/74008
Irving Penn, 1970 (taken) 1977 (print), Enga Warrior, Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/80540
Larry Sultan, 1984-1987, Dad with Raft, [Pictures from Home], Chromogenic print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/58498
Irving Penn, 1970 (taken) 1978 (print), Man with Pink Face, New Guinea, Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/80539
Charles Nègre, 1855 (ca), Portrait De Chien, Albumen print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/67051
Lucas Samaras, 1973, Photo-Transformation 10/31/73 (Face), [Photo-Transformations], Manipulated Polaroid SX-70 print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/74042
Josef Sudek, 1950s, White Rosebud, Pigment print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/74030
Laurie Simmons, 1998, Room Underneath (Gold), Cibachrome print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/58531
2010, 21-22 June, E-publicity for the Sotheby's New York auction of "Photographs from the Polaroid Collection", E-publicity, Sotheby's - New York, LL/38082
David LaChapelle, 2003, Loaves and Fishes, [Jesus is my Homeboy], Chromogenic print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/74048
Hiroshi Sugimoto, 1978, Fox Theatre, Detroit, Mich., Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/58517
Lucas Samaras, 1973, Photo-Transformation, Polaroid SX-70, Sotheby's - New York, LL/38097
Ansel Adams, 1950 (ca, taken) 1963 (print), Sequoia Roots, Mariposa Grove, Yosemite National Park, California, [Portfolio Four: What Majestic Word, in Memory of Russell Varian], Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/73996
Irving Penn, 1971 (taken) 1984 (print), Three Village Elders, Khenifra, Morocco (Three Arabs, Morocco), Gelatin silver print, selenium-toned, Sotheby's - New York, LL/74038
Adam Fuss, 1993, Untitled, [Details of Love], Dye-destruction print, photogram, Sotheby's - New York, LL/43166
László Moholy-Nagy, 1925-1926 (made) 1926-1929 (print), Fotogramm (Hand), Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/67667
Lucas Samaras, 1974, The 'Polaroid Collections/Do Not Remove' stamp, the "Innovation / Imagination: 50 years of Polaroid Photography" exhibition label, and the "Unrepentant Ego: The Self-portraits of Lucas Samaras" exhibition label., Print, reverse, Sotheby's - New York, LL/38089
Peter Beard, Various dates, Selected Diary Pages, Chromogenic prints, triptych, Sotheby's - New York, LL/58510
Lai Chong Studio, 1853 (Xianfeng 3rd year), General Ko-Lin, Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate, Sotheby's - New York, LL/118768
Chuck Close, 1979, The "Innovation / Imagination: 50 years of Polaroid Photography" exhibition label, Print, reverse, Sotheby's - New York, LL/38092
Ray K. Metzker, 1986 (taken) 1988 (print), Untitled, [Winged Certainties], Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/58542
Ansel Adams, 1964 (ca), A typed label on the reverse of a small Adams Polaroid., Print, reverse, Sotheby's - New York, LL/38086
C.L. Weed, 1864 (taken) 1870 (ca, print), [Yo-Semite Valley], Albumen print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/74004
Eugène Atget, 1900-1910, Ferme (Auvers S/ Oise), Albumen print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/74010
Katy Grannan, 1998, Untitled, [The Poughkeepsie Journal], Chromogenic print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/74051
Hiroshi Sugimoto, 1995, Lake Michigan, Gills Rock, Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/58514
Diane Arbus, 1968 (taken, later print), Topless Dancer in her Dressing Room, San Francisco, CAL., Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/80524
Berenice Abbott, 1937, Corlears Street, #3-5, [Changing New York], Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/58486
David LaChapelle, 1999, The Morning After, New York, Cibachrome print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/80545
Harry Callahan, 1949 (taken, later print), Chicago, Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/74019
Neil Leifer, 1966 (taken, later print), Muhammad Ali vs. Cleveland Williams, Houston, Texas, Digital chromogenic print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/80531
Frederick Sommer, 1950 (taken, later print), Circumnavigation Of The Blood, [Venus, Jupiter & Mars], Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/74000
Lai Chong Studio, 1853 (Xianfeng 3rd year), Label for "Lai Chong - Photographer - Shanghai - Kuling", Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate, label, Sotheby's - New York, LL/118769
Ansel Adams, 1958-1962 (taken) 1960s (early, print), The 'Polaroid Collection' stamp and a stamp for technical data, the latter with information in Adams's Hand., Print, reverse, Sotheby's - New York, LL/38085
Man Ray, 1930s (ca), Magnolia (Double exposure), Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/74036
Robertson, J. & Beato, F., 1854-1856, Panorama of Sebastopol from the Malakoff Tower, Crimea, Albumen prints (3), Sotheby's - New York, LL/74009
F. Holland Day, 1906 (ca), St. Sebastian, Platinum print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/74016
Paul Strand, 1936, Fred Briehl's Barn, Wallkill, N. Y., Platinum print, varnished, Sotheby's - New York, LL/58465
Margaret Bourke-White, 1929-1930, Gargoyle, Chrysler Building, New York, Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/36417
Robert Rauschenberg, 1952 (taken, later print), CY + Relics - Rome, Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/58503
F. Holland Day, 1897-1899, Kedan (Left Panel of Triptych Armageddon), [Armageddon], Platinum print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/74014
Eliot Porter, 1980, Portfolio cover for Eliot Porter, 1980, Eliot Porter: Glen Canyon, (New York: Daniel Wolf Press), Portfolio cover, Sotheby's - New York, LL/58448
Lewis Baltz, 1971, Tract House #24, [The Track House], Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/74023
Hiroshi Sugimoto, 1991 (portfolio), [Title requested], [Time Exposed], Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/58515
László Moholy-Nagy, 1920s (early), Alpenveilchen (Photogram), Printing out paper, Sotheby's - New York, LL/58468
Helen Levitt, 1939, N. Y. C. (Knight in Harlem), Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/58490
Edward Ruscha, 1966 (taken) 1995 (print), Whiskey-A-Go-Go, [Sunset Strip], Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/74021
Johan Hagemeyer, 1921, From S. F. Ferry Building Steps (San Francisco), Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/58452
Annie Leibovitz, 1986 (taken, later print), Keith Haring, New York, Platinum print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/80529
Ansel Adams, 1960, "Polaroid Land Photograph by Ansel Adams" stamp and a Technical data stamp, Print, reverse, Sotheby's - New York, LL/38083
Henry Wessel, 1973, Buena Vista, Colorado, Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/58483
Ansel Adams, 1944 (taken) 1962-1963 (?, print), Sierra Nevada from Lone Pine, California (Winter Sunrise), Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/58442
Lee Friedlander, 1966, White Plains, New York, Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/58482
Francesca Woodman, 1975-1976, Untitled (Self-portrait, Providence, Rhole Island), Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/58546
Irving Penn, 1987 b(taken) 1992 (print), Issey Miyake design with Black Fan (New York), Dye-transfer print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/80522
Ansel Adams, 1960 (taken) 1970s (print), The 'Polaroid Corporate Archives' label, and the label from the Ansel Adams & Edwin Land: "Art, Science, and Invention" exhibition., Print, reverse, Sotheby's - New York, LL/38087
Jaromír Funke, 1929, Composition, [Abstraktni Foto], Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/43157
Edward Weston, n.d., Tina Modotti, Glendale, Platinum print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/47157
Unidentified photographer (Washington, USA), 1843, March, John Quincy Adams, Daguerreotype, 1/2 plate, Sotheby's - New York, LL/77403
Eugène Atget, 1910, Versailles (Faune), Albumen print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/74011
Peter Beard, 1962 (taken, later print), Running Zebras, Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/58508
Peter Beard, 1972 (taken, assembled later), Lake Rudolf croc and Naomi Simms, Collage, Sotheby's - New York, LL/80543
Minor White, 1964, Moon and Wall Encrustation- Pultneyville, New York, Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/74001
Kota Ezawa, 2005, Slide, [History of Photography Remix], Lightbox, Sotheby's - New York, LL/58528
Diane Arbus, 1970 (taken) s (early, print), Mexican Dwarf in his hotel room, N.Y.C., Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/80525
Ansel Adams, 1962 (taken) 1963-1970 (print), The Polaroid 'Photographic Service Group' stamp, a 'Polaroid Print Library' stamp, and two of Adams's Carmel studio stamps (BMFA 7 and 8). The title of the print is entered in Adams's hand, Print, reverse, Sotheby's - New York, LL/38084
Harry Callahan, 1950 (taken) 1958 (before, print), The Polaroid "Library Collection" label., Print, reverse, Sotheby's - New York, LL/38088
Frederick Sommer, 1950, Return of the Prodigal, [Venus, Jupiter & Mars], Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/74002
Man Ray, n.d., Rayograph with hand and egg, Gelatin silver print, photogram, Sotheby's - New York, LL/47156
Gambier Bolton (?-1929), 1891 (ca), A Captive Unconquered, Carbon print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/58454
Peter Beard, 1987 (taken) 1990s (print), Hog Ranch front lawn, night feeder (2:00 am) with Maureen Gallagher & Mbuno, Collage, Sotheby's - New York, LL/80542
Peter Beard, 1976 (taken, later print), Magritte Rammé with World Record Elephant Tusks, Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/58509
Henry Fox Talbot, 1845, Book cover for William Henry Fox Talbot, 1845, Sun Pictures in Scotland, Book cover, Sotheby's - New York, LL/74006
Lillian Bassman, 1950 (taken, later print), Margie Cato. Harper's Bazaar (Born to Dance, dress by Emily Wilkins, New York), Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/80515
Aaron Siskind, 1955 (taken) 1968 (or earlier, print), Alcoman, Mexico, Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/43152
Robert Rauschenberg, 1988, Japanese Sky I, [Bleacher], Polaroid Polapan print, four-part large format, Sotheby's - New York, LL/38099
Horatio Ross, 1858 (ca, taken) 1870 (ca, print), Untitled (Sea Coast near Netherley), Albumen print, mounted to an album leaf, Sotheby's - New York, LL/74007
Ray K. Metzker, 1986 (taken) 1988 (print), Untitled, [Winged Certainties], Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/58540
Edward Weston, 1940, Church, Motherlode (Church Door, Hornitos), Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/58478
Edward Weston, 1923 (taken, printed later), Nude (Tina on the Beach), Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/58534
Ansel Adams, 1960 (ca, taken) 1973-1979 (?, print), Oak Tree, Rain, Sonoma County Hills, California, Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/58445
Ray K. Metzker, 1986 (taken) 1988 (print), Untitled, [Winged Certainties], Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/58541
Man Ray, 1933, Unitled [Photomontage with nude and studio light], Gelatin silver print, photomontage, Sotheby's - New York, LL/43156
Lee Friedlander, 1961-1970 (taken, printed later), [Title requested], [The Little Screens], Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/58519
Eugène Atget, 1920s, Tuileries, Lais, Albumen print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/74012
Lewis W. Hine, 1930 (ca), Tightening the Bolts, Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/74017
Man Ray, 1934, Pont de la Concorde, Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/58466
Unidentified American photographer, possibly Montgomery P. Simons, 1849 (ca), African American with a steer, Daguerreotype, 1/2 plate, hand-coloured, Sotheby's - New York, LL/64089
Alfred Stieglitz, 1904, Book cover for Alfred Stieglitz (ed.), 1940, Photo-Secession: A Collection of American Pictorial Photographs, (Pittsburgh: The Camera Club of Pittsburgh), Book cover, Sotheby's - New York, LL/74013
Unidentified photographer, n.d., Faith Healer or Hypnotist, Daguerreotype, Sotheby's - New York, LL/102512
Michael Halsband, 1985 (taken, later print), Jean-Michel Basquiat + Andy Warhol, N.Y.C., Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/80532
Francesca Woodman, 1977, Self-portrait with Liza, Providence, Rhode Island, Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/58547
Irving Penn, 1949 (taken) 1990 (print), Woman on the Beach, Smoking (Mary Jane Russell, Long Island, N.Y.), Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/80520
Unidentified photographer, 1850 (ca), The School Group with their teacher, Daguerreotype, 1/2 plate, Sotheby's - New York, LL/61432
Irving Penn, 1951 (taken) 1967 (print), Marchand de concombres, Paris, Platinum-palladium print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/74037
Ormond Gigli, 1967 (taken, later print), Girl in Light, Chromogenic print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/74024
Diane Arbus, 1967 (taken) 1973 (print), Boy in Straw Hat waiting to march in a Pro-War Parade, N.Y.C., Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/80526
Alec Soth, 2005, Falls Manor, [Niagara], Chromogenic print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/58494
Harry Callahan, 1949 (taken, later print), Chicago, Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/74020
William A. Garnett, 1954, Nude Dune Death Valley, California, D.V., Sand Dune #1, Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/43149
Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1948, Last Days of the Kuomintang, Merchant waiting with Man Eating, Beijing, Gelatin silver print, ferrotyped, Sotheby's - New York, LL/58470
Dan Graham, 1966, Row of New "Tract" Houses" and 'Row of "Tract" House with Backyard Fence, [Homes for America], Chromogenic prints, diptych, Sotheby's - New York, LL/58527
Irving Penn, 1949 (taken) 1983 (print), Man lighting girl's cigarette (New York), Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/80516
Lai Chong Studio, 1853 (Xianfeng 3rd year), General Ko-Lin, Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate, Sotheby's - New York, LL/118767
Francis Frith, 1857-1858, The Pyramids of Sakkarah, from the North-East, Albumen print, mammoth plate, Sotheby's - New York, LL/58456
Pierre Dubreuil, 1908, Notre Dame de Paris, Oil print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/58474
Peter Beard, 1972 (taken) 2004 (print), Photo Lesson on the S.S. Caroline, Skorpios, Greece, July 1972 (Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis), Collage, Sotheby's - New York, LL/80530
Ansel Adams, 1941 (taken) 1963 (ca, print), Monrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/58443
Man Ray, 1924, Rayograph (with coil, handkerchief, and chain), Gelatin silver print, Rayograph, Sotheby's - New York, LL/106251
Ansel Adams, 1921 (taken) 1974 (print), Forest And Stream, Lyell Fork Of The Merced River, Yosemite National Park, California, Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/73991
Diane Arbus, 1970 (taken) s (early, print), A Jewish Giant at home with his parents in the Bronx, N.Y., Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/80523
Brett Weston, 1928, Bay Window (Victorian House, San Francisco), Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/73998
László Moholy-Nagy, 1929, Pont Transbordeur Im Regen, Marseille (The Transporter Bridge under the Rain, Marseille), Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - New York, LL/74035
   

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