Photographs

Bonhams' London and New York Photographs departments hold four sales of fine photographs a year. Spanning the history of photography, from the 19th century to the present day, these auctions include work by the well-established names in American and European photography as well as up-and-coming, contemporary practitioners. Bonhams offers collectors the opportunity to own images at the heart of our visual culture. Names highly sought after in the field include Ansel Adams, William Henry Fox Talbot, Julia Margaret Cameron, Gustave Le Gray, Diane Arbus, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Bill Brandt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Irving Penn, Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, Peter Beard, Edward Weston, Sebastião Salgado, Weegee, Andreas Gursky and many more.