Christies, Photo Auction, American CAsh

1. At Least Two Avedon bought in, other work sold for low end of estimate (market correction downwards?)
2. Adams Sierra club pritned photos Yosemite vs Watkins (a century earlier, albumen vs silver nitrate, Albumen outsells by 5 figures)
3. A century of female nudes: brandt, manray, mapplethorpe, newton, others
4. iconic winnogrand, (7 wks), 15k (other iconic work, WeeGee opera, went over; Lange went in the middle, reprints from 73 of Walker Evans photos from Now I Praise Famous Men went market, Arbus grenade, printed a decade after it was shot 229, Eggelston Memphis Secertary for 109K, Manray of Kiki and African Mask, 241k, Karsh and Churchill 10k, Penn Frozen Food, 109)
   
5. Frank, Cafteria, bought in
6. Dan Graham bought in (one of those accidents of commerce, the Dan Graham, a Shore featuring cares, and an evans featuring a bus, the graham is the only one that wen unsold)
   
7. I really hate Watkins
8. that 78 seires from Penn, wehre he took ethnic people in exotic costume, and shot them in a new york studio, three or four images from that series, for low 6 figures. (the sepia tone, the costume, etc its colonial, isnt it,updates of Curtis and all those victorians?) (three new guinea works from the same seires went unsold though)
   
9. Atget sold really well, but you can still get some of his best images for a tenth of medicore Penn shots
10. Wojanowicz. the buffalo shot--more conceptual then photo, but i always get a catch in my throat looking at them. (46,4)
    
11. I know that no one has any moeny, but the dundas collection was bought for the canadian government for more then 11m, but something like Mayfair, Winnipeg, from Shore, went unsold for 5k, that piece should be in Canada
12. I have o idea why one would by a singular Becher
    
13. Three Lux for much less then they were going for in the last auction
    
14. most of the mapplethorpes are teh flowers, the 6 or so male ndues were sold for 5/6k if sold at all
    
15. some old queen sold his collection: erotic male work by mapplethorpe, weber, plat-lynnes, ritts, horst, no big break thrus, 4-5 figures
    
16. only one goldin, two serrano