
LA Public Library Wins $144,000 Bid to Secure 12,000-Photo Collection
The Los Angeles Public Library won a $144,000 bid to purchase a collection of celebrity photos taken by the late Jon Verzi.
The Los Angeles Public Library won a $144,000 bid to purchase a collection of celebrity photos taken by the late Jon Verzi.
It's a day heavy with beautiful Leica news. First, we shared the photos and story behind this one-of-a-Kind Leica M4 that you can't have, and now we've caught wind of another iconic Leica that is going up for sale (and is probably just as unattainable for most of us).
What makes this Leica (a Leica III, to be exact) special isn't some particular one-of-a-kind design, it's the fact that this is the actual camera used by photographer Yevgeni Khaldei to take his iconic Raising a Flag Over The Reichstag photograph in 1945.
This week, 24 incredible, powerful, haunting photographs will be going up on the auction block at Bonhams in New York. These are photographs that are newly-discovered, and many of them have never been seen before as they were taken with a faulty camera and never made it in front of the public eye.
They are photographs of Nagasaki, Japan, taken by celebrated Japanese military photographer Yosuke Yamahata the day after an atomic bomb was dropped on it and Hiroshima.
This almost one-of-a-kind Leica camera -- which was discovered as part of an Antiques Roadshow episode years ago -- could sell for more than $1.6 million when it goes up for auction next month.
An old class photo taken in 1941 at Ralph Waldo Emerson Junior High School is about to be auctioned off, and it's set to fetch quite a price. Why, you ask? Well, because a girl by the name of Norma Jeane Baker -- who later became famous as Marilyn Monroe -- both signed and was in the picture.
The largest photo book ever published sold yesterday at the Bonhams Book, Maps, Manuscripts and Historical Photographs sale in London. The book is made up of 20, un-enlarged prints of Egypt, Sinai and Jerusalem taken by renowned English photographer Francis Frith that each measure a colossal 30in x 21in. To give you some perspective, we've superimposed a picture of Canon's new T4i (to scale) onto the picture from the book itself. As you can see, these are some big prints.