Alvin Langdon Coburn
‘Shadows And Reflections, Venice’
Alvin Langdon Coburn’s Shadow and Reflections, Venice 1905 sold for $965,000 at Sotheby’s sale of 175 masterworks to celebrate 175 years of photography in New York. The sale, which took in a total of $23.1 million, demonstrated that the market for classic photographs has never been stronger. The total exceeded the previous auction record for photographs by $6 million. There were world auction records for Alvin Langdon Coburn, August Sander, Tina Modotti, Julia Margaret Cameron, Lee Miller, Walker Evans, Martin Munkácsi, and others in the sale of the collection of Howard Stein.
Denise Bethel, Chairman, Sotheby’s Photographs, Americas, commented: “This record breaking sale has been a celebration of photography – the most profound, inventive, and beautiful artistic medium of our time. The masterpieces in the auction spanned the mid nineteenth century to the present day and featured the extraordinary talents that have always characterized the very best photographers. It is therefore entirely fitting that the proceeds will be used for the innovative educational work of Joy of Giving Something Foundation”.