Hi all, I hope you find the following info about an upcoming auction
of Nautical Photographs interesting.

A superb collection of nearly 40 nautical photographs by prominent
American and European photographers will be featured in Swann
Galleries' auction of Important 19th & 20th Century Photographs on
Monday, October 15. The collection was built over the course of 25
years by marine photography enthusiast Charles W. Sahlman of Tampa,
Florida, and has been exhibited at the Tampa Museum of Art.

A strong selection of 19th-century works in the auction includes a
salted paper print from a calotype negative by the inventor of
photography, William Henry Fox Talbot. It is a very early (circa
1842-45) image of the Hungerford Suspension Bridge, with several
docked boats in the foreground (estimate: $15,000 to $25,000). Gustave
LeGray's stunning Brig on the Water, large-format albumen print, 1856
($25,000 to $35,000), and Timothy H. O'Sullivan's Black Canyon,
Colorado River from Camp 8, Looking Above, albumen print, 1871, from
the Wheeler Geological Survey of the Western U.S. ($9,000 to $12,000),
are other early highlights.

Also featured are Civil War photographer George N. Barnard's Savannah,
Georgia No. 2, gold-toned albumen print, 1866, from his photographic
documentation of Sherman's Campaign ($2,500 to $3,500); the lyrical
English photographer Peter Henry Emerson's Marshman Going to Cut
Schoof-Stuff, platinum print, circa 1885, from his masterwork Life and
Landscape on the Norfolk Broads ($4,000 to $6,000); and the renowned
Antarctic photographer Herbert G. Ponting's majestic view of The Terra
Nova Icebound in the Pack, oversize green-toned carbon print, 1914,
taken during Admiral Scott's ill-fated expedition ($15,000 to
$25,000).

From the early 20th century are Karl F. Struss's Sailboats, New
England, platinum print, 1910 ($4,000 to $6,000); Alfred Steiglitz's
classic image The Steerage that appeared in his publication Camera
Work, photogravure on Japan tissue, 1911 ($5,000 to $7,500); and
Eugene Atget's La Rochelle-Bateau, arrowroot print, circa 1920 ($7,000
to $10,000).

Modernist examples include master photographer Edward Weston's
abstraction depicting the bow of a Boat in San Francisco Bay, silver
print, 1925 ($25,000 to $35,000); German artist Ernst Scheel's New
Objectivity view of Schiffmaste from below, oversize silver print,
circa 1930 ($10,000 to $15,000); and Margaret Bourke-White's powerful
scene of a sailor Climbing the Mast, warm-toned silver print, 1934
($9,000 to $12,000).

Other striking views of boats include Czech photographer Drahomir
Josef Ruzicka's Fishing Boats in Harbor in Winter, blue-toned bromoil
print, circa 1930 ($2,000 to $3,000); Brassaï's Regatte sur la Seine,
ferrotyped silver print, 1933, printed 1940 ($5,000 to $7,500); Aldolf
Fassbender's Just Drifting, silver bromoil print, 1939 ($3,000 to
$4,500); and A. Aubrey Bodine's Chesapeake Bay Skipjack, gold-toned
bromide print, 1947 ($3,000 to $4,500).

Among journalistic images are Berenice Abbott's "Tusitala," North
River and 156th St., Manhattan, silver print, 1937 ($4,000 to $6,000);
and Andreas Feininger's Brooklyn Bridge and Fulton Fish Market, and
New York, Fulton Fish Market, ferrotyped silver prints, 1940 ($3,000
to $4,500 each).

The auction also features a partial set of Edward S. Curtis's magnum
opus, The North American Indian, with 16 complete portfolios
containing his large-format magisterial photogravures and 16 fully
illustrated text volumes in handsome morocco bindings (Refer to
Department for Estimate).

The auction will begin at 2:30 p.m. on Monday, October 15.

More information: www.swanngalleries.com