London Photo Auction, Sothebys

1. more work from early in the history, incouding some great vintage albumun and salt pritns, from the 1850s
   
2. Lawton Albums of Ceylon, from the 1870s, 78 vintage prints, really impt historically, bought in (low estimae 5k)
3. Two Keresetz iconic photos, made in the 20s, reprinted in the late 70s, most likely under the supervision of the Met, unsold
4. Hoping that Bellmer is getting some respecft as photog, which seems to be happening
   
5. Nothing a blockbuster, most sellign for fairly low estimates, in the 3500 range
6. I havent figured out if the Penn photos of cigarettes, big sexy cprints, in elegant black and whtie, have n interesting contradiction in mateiral and subject, or the expected grammar of fashion work.
   
7. The fantastic Arbus photo of Blaze Starr back stage, tired, intimate, and exposed literally.figuratively sells or 7500
8. How accdiental are the compositons of the NASA photos? i still find it interesting they are authourless
9. Weuiredest photo, a Helmut Newton glamour nude of Jody Foster stretched over a couch, from 1990
10. this is the only way you can get a Warhol print for 4 figures
11. has anyone done a show of Goldin landscapes, because the two here, one from Switzerland and one from STrombli, are better composed and constructed, more historically minded, then other work, and it points to interestnig fissures in her accidental, nto really a formalist armour
12. Conceptualists, like Nauman, Lawler, Ruff and Prince didnt do well
13. 94 of 208 unsold, including work by Nauman, Prince, Hockney, Arbus, Caroll (female nude), Bild, Lawler, The lunar Atlass of Loewy and Piseux, Charles Jones, Sander (several portraits, including a fantasitc Lichenstein), Rifentsthal (an image from Blue Light), Henri Carier Vresson, a few Sudk ndues, and others