The top lot for the day in the The Stephen L. White Collection and Fine Photographs sale was Eadweard Muybridge's Animal Locomotion (An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements), with 21 plates, 1872-1887; printed in 1887, which brought $57,600.
James Wallace Black's portrait of Kit Carson, the last picture of him taken before his death two months later, in 1868, brought $48,000.Golden Spike Ceremony with Flag and Camera, Promontory Point, Utah, Andrew J. Russell's photograph of representatives from the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads&mdashwhich together formed the transcontinental railroad—taken in 1869, brought $43,200.
Helmut Newton's Woman Observing Man, Saint Tropez, 1975, printed 1980s, fetched $40,800.
Labels: Andrew J. Russell, Animal Locomotion, Eadweard Muybridge, fine photographs, Helmut Newton, Kit Carson, photography, Stephen L. White Photograph Collection, transcontinental railroad
James Wallace Black's portrait of Kit Carson, the last picture of him taken before his death two months later, in 1868, brought $48,000.
Helmut Newton's Woman Observing Man, Saint Tropez, 1975, printed 1980s, fetched $40,800.