Fine Photographs
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Lots: 351
This May, Chiswick Auctions presents a diverse and exciting selection of vintage, modern, and contemporary photography, going under the hammer on 21 May 2026. Central to the sale is a curated selection of British photography from across the 20th century — including iconic works by Martin Parr, definitive Picture Post images from social documentarians Bert Hardy and Thurston Hopkins, luminous landscapes by rambler-photographer Fay Godwin, and a fascinating archive of personal vintage prints from the studio of Dorothy Wilding, Britain's first female royal photographer. The sale also features a wide-array of 20th-century photographs from across the pond, including vintage prints by American landscape masters Edward Weston and Brett Weston, a rare Ansel Adams view of Unicorn Peak, Yosemite, a unique combination print-postcard, hand-annotated and posted by Sally Mann in 1975, and an impressive print of William Klein's 1954 "Gun I, New York", contact sheet, overpainted in 2004 and editioned as an oversized print. Highlights from later in the 20th century include a strong selection of fashion photographs, including works by Terence Donovan, Sarah Moon, Helmut Newton, Patrick Demarchelier, Herb Ritts, and Juergen Teller, among many others.
Lot 97 - § Sarah Moon (b.1941) Le Petit Chaperon Rouge (Little Red Riding Hood), 1983
Sold for £1,008
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 98 - Sally Mann (b.1951) Sherry and Sherry's Grandmother, Both at Twelve Years, 1983
Sold for £5,040
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 101 - Arthur Tress (b.1940) Flood Dream, Ocean City, New Jersey, 1971
Sold for £1,197
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 103 - Manuel Álvarez Bravo (1902-2002) Y Por Los Noches Gemia, 1945
Sold for £1,260
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 104 - § Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952) The North American Indian, 1907-1930
Estimated at £2,000 - £3,000
Lot 105 - Manuel Álvarez Bravo (1902-2002) Un Pez que Llaman Sierra" (A Fish Called Saw), 1942
Sold for £1,512
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 106 - § Fay Godwin (1931-2005) Petrified Wood, Pett Level [from the Pett Level series], 1985
Sold for £428
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 107 - Edward Weston (1886-1958) Wonderland of Rocks, Mojave Desert, 1937
Sold for £1,638
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 108 - Brett Weston (1911-1993) South of Point Lobos, 1952
Sold for £1,512
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 109 - Edward Weston (1886-1958) Sunset View from the Roof of the St George Hotel, Brooklyn, 1941
Estimated at £8,000 - £12,000
Lot 110 - Ansel Adams (1902-1984) Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park, California, 1950
Sold for £2,772
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 113 - Ansel Adams (1902-1984) Dogwood, Yosemite National Park, California, 1938
Sold for £756
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 115 - § Don McCullin (b.1935) Westcombe Somerset, c.1990s
Sold for £3,024
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 116 - Ansel Adams (1902-1984) Fern Forest, Kilauea, Hawaii National Park, T.H., 1948
Sold for £1,764
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 117 - § Don McCullin (b.1935) The Somerset Levels, 1992
Sold for £3,528
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 122 - § Bert Hardy (1913-1995) Hopping Holiday, Kent, 1951
Sold for £1,638
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 123 - § Martin Parr (1952-2025) Passing Naturalists, Pagham Harbour, 1974
Sold for £2,520
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 124 - § Colin Jones (1936-2021) Wallsend, Newcastle, England, 1963
Sold for £1,638
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 125 - § Bert Hardy (1913-1995) Gorbals Boys, Glasgow, 1948
Sold for £3,528
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 127 - § Markéta Luskačová (b.1944) A Pair of Beach Scenes, Northeast England, 1978
Sold for £1,071
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 128 - § Bert Hardy (1913-1995) Maidens in Waiting, Blackpool, 1951
Sold for £3,528
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 129 - Homer Sykes (b.1949) An English Summer Day, Southend on Sea, Essex, August 1974
Sold for £378
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 130 - § Colin Jones (1936-2021) Liverpool Docks, England, 1962
Sold for £3,276
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 131 - § Tony Ray-Jones (1941-1972) A Portfolio of Fifteen Photographs, 1967-1969
Sold for £3,528
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 132 - § Colin Jones (1936-2021) "The Lump", Dockers Waiting for Work, Liverpool, 1963
Sold for £2,394
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 133 - § Thurston Hopkins (1913-2014) Students & Curious Policemen, Manchester, 1955
Sold for £693
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 135 - Homer Sykes (b.1949) Balsall Heath, Birmingham, 1960s
Sold for £353
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 136 - § Bert Hardy (1913-1995) Cockney Life at the Elephant and Castle, London, January 8, 1949
Sold for £1,071
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 138 - § Thurston Hopkins (1913-2014) The End of the Party, Highgate, London, 1955
Sold for £1,260
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 139 - § Brian Griffin (1948-2024) Scottish Businessmen, Scotland, 1986
Sold for £504
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 140 - § Martin Parr (1952-2025) New Brighton, Merseyside [The Last Resort], 1983-1985
Sold for £4,032
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 142 - § Wolfgang Suschitzky (1912-2016) London Docks, 1934
Sold for £1,260
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 143 - § Peter Mitchell (b.1943) Church Street, Early Sunday Morning, 2020
Sold for £554
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 147 - § Peter Mitchell (b.1943) Concorde Wallpaper, Devon Road, 1970s
Sold for £1,134
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 148 - § Roger Mayne (1929-2014) Girls and a Boy, Hampden Crescent, London, 1957
Sold for £819
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 149 - § Martin Parr (1952-2025) New Brighton, Merseyside [The Last Resort], 1983-1985
Sold for £4,284
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 150 - § Thurston Hopkins (1913-2014) East End, London, 1954
Sold for £1,071
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 151 - § Colin Jones (1936-2021) Seven Sisters, Dulais Valley, South Wales, 1997
Sold for £2,772
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 152 - § Roger Mayne (1929-2014) Young-Old, Southam Street, North Kensington, 1957
Sold for £554
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 153 - § Graham Smith (b.1947) Bob in the 'Prince Alice', South Bank, 1985
Sold for £567
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 154 - § Dorothy Bohm (1924-2023) Greenwich, London, 1997
Sold for £1,134
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 155 - § Peter Mitchell (b.1943) Memento Mori [Portfolio], 1973-1978
Estimated at £2,500 - £3,500
Lot 156 - § Hannah Starkey (b.1971) Untitled, October, 1998
Sold for £1,764
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 157 - § Fay Godwin (1931-2005) A Group of Four Landscape Studies, 1970-1985
Sold for £1,260
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 160 - § Markéta Luskačová (b.1944) A Pair of Sumiac, Slovakia Scenes, c.1968
Sold for £428
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 162 - § Thurston Hopkins (1913-2014) The Kilembi Copper Mine, Uganda, 2nd February 1952
Estimated at £300 - £500
Lot 165 - Raul Corrales (1925-2006) The Crowd During Fidel Castro's Trip to South America, 1959
Estimated at £500 - £700
Lot 167 - § William Klein (1926-2022) Shadows and Soldiers, Gorky Park, Moscow, USSR, 1959
Sold for £2,520
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 168 - § Thurston Hopkins (1913-2014) Greek Priest, Athens, 1956
Sold for £454
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 171 - § Jane-Evelyn Atwood (b.1947) Paris, Red Light, 1976-1979 & The Blind, 1988
Sold for £1,386
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 173 - W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) Nun Waiting for Survivors of the Andrea Doria Sinking, 1956
Sold for £454
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 175 - O. Winston Link (1914-2001) Hotshot Eastbound, West Virginia, 1956.
Sold for £1,890
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 176 - § Markéta Luskačová (b.1944) Carnival, Prague, 1999
Sold for £378
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 178 - Bruce Davidson (b.1933) Circus Performers, Behind the Scenes, 1958
Sold for £819
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 180 - W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) Steel Plant, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1955
Sold for £504
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 181 - Lee Friedlander (b.1934) Shadow, New York City, 1966
Sold for £4,032
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 183 - W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) Untitled from the essay “As From my Window...”, 1957-58
Estimated at £2,000 - £3,000
Lot 188 - Richard Misrach (b.1949) Comfort Stations, Edwards Air Force Base, California, 1983
Sold for £1,008
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 189 - Stephen Shore (b.1947) Cal. 177, Desert Center, California, 1976
Estimated at £3,000 - £5,000
Lot 190 - § Robert Dowling (b.1946) 1939 Harley Davidson Combination Los Angeles, 1987
Estimated at £400 - £600
Lot 191 - Robert Frank (1924-2019) Picnic In A Car Park, Fourth of July, 1955
Estimated at £5,000 - £7,000
Lot 192 - § Robert Dowling (b.1946) 1959 Harley Earle Cadillac, Monument Valley, 1987
Sold for £504
Includes Buyer's Premium