Auctions

Editorial previews of upcoming auctions worth knowing about - photography equipment, photographs, a photographer's estate, or photo books. Fact-checked the same way as On the Scent. Every preview stays up until its auction concludes, then moves to the archive below.

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Bonhams' Photographs Sale: No Marquee Estate This Time, Just the Bench

Bonhams' recurring New York Photographs auction returns without a single-owner headline, leaning instead on its usual roster of blue-chip names.

Read the full preview → Bonhams · Sep 28, 2026

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1977, Three Ways: Frank, Shore, and Meyerowitz Land in the Same Sale

Leitz Photographica's autumn photographs sale in Vienna quietly stacks up three American photographers working the same year, plus a Callahan portrait priced well under what its subject usually commands.

Read the full preview → Leitz Photographica Auction · Oct 9, 2026

A Coffee Can Signed by Ansel Adams Is the Strangest Lot in Heritage's Depth of Field Sale

Heritage's August 12 photographs showcase mixes blue-chip prints with genuine ephemera — and the ephemera is the more interesting story.

Heritage Auctions · concluded Aug 12, 2026